Already in the past, Coelho became known as a sympathizer of Vadimir Putin and his politics. “I may be insulted for what I write, but since the forced annexation to Ukraine (1954), Crimea was free to say ‘we don’t want it’, a few days before the Kremlin signed the treaty on the incorporation of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol into the Russian Federation. Asked by an internet user how he knows what Crimea really wants, Coelho replied: “There was a vote. Don’t give in to Western propaganda.”
Paulo Coelho: I have been to Ukraine and Russia. This is war, but …
On February 24, almost exactly eight years after the start of hostilities in Crimea, the Russian army launched an attack on Ukraine’s largest cities. Paulo Coelho commented on the situation on Friday 11 March. On his Twitter profile we read:
The crisis in Ukraine is a convenient excuse for Russophobia.
Immediately afterwards, the writer added:
I’ve been to Lviv, Kiev, Odessa, Yalta, Chernobyl (Ukraine). I drove 10 thousand. km by train from Moscow to Vladivostok (Russia). Yes, there is a war: but don’t blame the common people.
In response to Coelho’s status, Twitter users upload propaganda material from Russian TV, photos of Ukrainian civilians who have died in recent days, and shocking scenes from the new wartime reality in Ukraine. He wrote back to the Brazilian MP Michał Szczerba: “Crisis? It’s war! It’s aggression! It’s about the Russian occupation and mass murder of civilians in Ukraine. Use correct words, writer! And apologize! #PutinToZbrodniarzWojenny”.
Internet users reminded Coelho of a meeting with Vadimir Putin, which the author of “Alchemik” had in 2006 after the end of the aforementioned railway journey through Russia. – Despite the great distance between Russia and Brazil, there is probably something in the soul of the Russian and Brazilian peoples that unites us; that’s why what you write – or rather the way you write – hits the hearts of Russians, Putin said then.
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