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About 20 years after the sinking of the Soviet nuclear submarine “Kursk”, during which they died 118 members From his crew, transcripts of the telephone and personal conversations between US President Bill Clinton and his administration officials with the Russian president were released. Vladimir Putin, for this tragic event.
The transcripts, which are worth noting, were posted on the Bill Clinton Digital Library website at August 29, 2019, with dates 1999-2001 Most of which were labeled “top secret” are now reported in the Russian media, such as the Meduza website cited by the Novaya Gazeta newspaper and the Russian news agency Ria Novosti.
One of the old classified documents begins with Clinton Putin talking about the aftermath of the Kursk submarine tragedy, which took place during their meeting on September 6, 2000, in the presidential suite of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York.
At the beginning of the discussion, Clinton expressed his condolences for the tragedy with the submarine “Kursk”, while Putin admitted that he had no better option with the situation that developed.
«I found myself choosing between the bad and the worst. Some people told me that if I immediately sent a small submarine and even tried to save our people, my popularity would increase. Such things should not be associated with propaganda. THE priority must be given for the true salvation of men “, Putin responded to Clinton and added “Oddly enough, subsequent polls have shown that this incident did not affect my popularity. But I’m very afraid that something similar will happen again».
The Russian president, according to with those classified documents, told Clinton that there was a hole in the hull of the sub “about two meters, so the first three tanks were flooded». «I do not know how we can put the bodies».
According to the Clinton-Putin conversation paper, Putin had learned at some point that the crew members had died, but had not disclosed this information. «We were trying to slow down all this noise (which had been created), but some weird people kept pushing it.“Putin admitted.
The day that submarine sankOn August 12, 2000 (Putin was on the 97th day of his presidency) the Russian president left for Sochi on vacation. The tragic event of the sinking was reported only the next day and to the public on August 14. Putin interrupted his vacation and left Sochi to Moscow after five days. For this he had been criticized by the Russian press.
TO August 22nd The Russian authorities have officially recognized the deaths of 118 crew members.
Kursk nuclear submarine sinks in Barents Sea at a distance of 175 km from the city of Severamosk at a depth of 108 meters. The sinking of the Kursk was the first great catastrophe under Vladimir Putin.
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