Diana Sosoacă, visiting Moscow. The MEP gave an interview to Russia Today, a station banned in the EU
MEP Diana Iovanovici-Soșoacă participated in Moscow at the gala organized by the Russia Today (RT) channel on the occasion of its 20th anniversary, according to the images she published on Facebook. Russian President Vladimir Putin was also present on stage at the event.
Soșoacă shared video clips from the hall of the Bolshoi Theatre, where the event took place on Friday evening, and stated, in a party statement, that she was a “special guest” of the RT station.
“At a time when freedom of expression is being strangled in Europe, Diana Iovanovici-Şoșoacă took the voice of the Romanian people, free and dignified, to Moscow, telling the truth that the European Union and the globalist media are trying to hide”, according to an SOS Romania press release.
Putin's presence at this gala was confirmed on the Kremlin's official website.
Interview for a state television banned in the EU
RT, the Russian state-funded broadcaster, is banned in the European Union from 2022 as part of sanctions imposed on Moscow after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine.
“While independent channels are blocked or banned, globalist propaganda is aggressively promoted in all member states of the European Union (…) People die not for freedom, but for the ambitions of those who want to reach the borders of Russia. Peace cannot be built with tanks and bombs, but with respect for truth and history (…) Europe must wake up. Dictatorship no longer comes with tanks, but with directives, with censorship and fear”, conveyed Șoșoacă in the SOS Romania press release.
The SOS leader, who is being prosecuted in Romania for several crimes, including deprivation of liberty and legionary propaganda, also spoke about her own case: “After they banned my candidacy for the presidency and tried to abolish SOS Romania, now they want to put me in a hospice because I tell the truth. This is not democracy – it is Nazism revived,” said Șoșoacă.
The Romanian MEP stated that the European Union “behaves like a dictatorship” that fears the free press, praising the Russian station for “resisting Western censorship” and offering a platform to those “silenced” by the mainstream media, the Russian station also wrote.
“It's like during the Catholic Inquisition”
Sosoacă gave an interview to the Kremlin-owned television on Thursday, published on social networks on Friday, October 17.
“To be free in the mass media means to be exactly like me, because I am free in politics and you cannot be free in politics, if you tell the truth, so you and I are like brother and sister”, declared the leader of SOS Romania, Diana Șoșoacă, when asked by the RT announcer what differentiates the station from the mainstream ones.
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“The truth is God. You have managed to impose yourself everywhere in the world, especially because you are so banned everywhere. In Romania (…) if you do not have a VPN, you cannot access Russia Today. For many Romanians you are known because I always appear on Russia Today and, of course, you have a lot of courage to invite people like me, who tell the truth (…) They (the European Union no) accuse Russia of being a dictatorship, but I do not see dictatorship from their own backyard. It's like during the Catholic Inquisition, which for 600 years burned, tortured and imprisoned people who were telling the truth”, continued Soșoacă.
Sosoacă criticized the European Parliament, which he said was disconnected from the reality of the citizens.
“They live in a bubble, on Mars, and they talk about our life on Earth. They are like a mafia, and it is not a metaphor. They are actually a mafia. They tried to draw me into their space, but I refused. They have money and I do not think that there are people who do not have money. They want to be like the United States, not like Russia, because they do not recognize the power of Russia. In Moscow I saw children reading on the plane, not sitting on the phone. Ursula von der Leyen thinks he's like Putin or Trump, but he doesn't have their intelligence,” said Diana Sosoacă.
