Honored Coach of Russia Vladimir Plushev commented on the statement of the President of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Luca Tardif .
Earlier, the IIHF chief said decisions on sanctions against players playing in the KHL and the Belarusian championship can be made at the discretion of national federations.
– I think that these words of Tardif must be interpreted in such a way that the IIHF recommends disqualifying players playing in Russia and Belarus. As for the extension of the suspension of our national team for 2023, it has long been clear that war has been declared on us on all fronts. It affects all spheres: culture, art, sport.
The West is shooting itself in the foot. It is totally incomprehensible what democratic values they can talk about after that. They themselves deprive people of the opportunity to choose their place of residence, profession, violate freedom of movement, etc. Behind beautiful words, they hide the obvious intention to fight Russia in every way.
Only Russia did not resist such clowns. We have fought all our lives against all of Europe, and not just against one abnormal country. All of Europe worked for fascist Germany – Czech tanks roamed our Kursk salient. Yes, and Napoleon crushed all of Europe under him – he had legions from Italy, Austria, Poland. Who was not there!
I will be interested to see them later. Our president said we haven’t started anything yet. It will probably turn out that we will start soon. They tell us that we shouldn’t play hockey, football… But we continue to sell gasoline to these monsters. We are in the position of the second number, but we must be the first. Enough, – said Plushev “”.
Source : MatchTV

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