Dmitri Medvedev, the Vice-President of Russia’s Security Council and former president of the Russian Federation, reacted virulently on Friday to the EU’s decision to ask Russia to return Romania’s Treasury, stating that „Romanians are not a nation” and that the request is „insolence”, reports TASS.
„Romanians, as it is known, are not a nation, but a way of life. It seemed that nothing could surprise us anymore. European leaders – idiots, weaklings, nothings. But no, they gave us another reason. They want to return Romania’s gold”, Medvedev wrote in a post on his Vkontakte page (a Russian social media platform).
Medvedev claims that the Soviet government nationalized Romania’s treasury in 1918 for Romania’s „misbehavior” and that Romania refused to „pay its debts” to the „Soviet Empire”.
„Romania agreed to this and then got a reparations waiver from us for its Nazi period during World War II. Well, now, again, the appetite has been revived in various idiots in the European Parliament”, he said.
„Well, I really don’t know how to respond to such impudence. The EU stole assets of 300 billion dollars from Russia and demands to return the gold to Romania”, Medvedev mused, referring to the Russian assets frozen by the EU bloc.
After the European Parliament okayed an unprecedented resolution demanding that Russia return Romania’s treasure, Russia has claimed that Romania is the debtor in fact, and that Romania’s debts to Russia would exceed 20-25 times the value of the entire Romanian treasury.
„Romania is trying to put its century-old phantom debts on Russia’s shoulders, in order to improve the disastrous state of its national economy”, the spokeswoman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova wrote on Telegram, quoted by RIA Novosti.
She claimed that Romania’s debts to Russia and the Soviet Union exceed, „according to experts’ calculations” – 20-25 times the value of the entire Romanian treasury that arrived in Russia in 1916-1917.
Komsomolskaia Pravda writes, quoting the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, that in 1949 Moscow „forgave Romania almost all its debt for the destruction caused during the Second World War”.
The Russian publication also writes that in 2022, Romania asked Russia to pay 4 billion euros to its treasury.
Russia and the stolen treasure: Romania can go straight to heck
