Putin’s supporters congratulated him on his birthday: “God, protect the Tsar”

Russian President Vladimir Putin, on his 72nd birthday, was called the emperor by some of his supporters.

They added that he raised Russia from its knees and that he will defeat the West in the war in Ukraine.

Putin, who took over the leadership of the Kremlin in 1999, just eight years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, is the longest-serving Kremlin leader since Joseph Stalin, who died at his dacha outside Moscow in 1953 at the age of 74.

“God save the emperor!” the Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin, who has long advocated the unification of Russophone-speaking areas and other territories into a huge new Russian empire, which, according to his idea, should include Ukraine.

“Putin rules the country confidently and calmly. And it will always be like that,” added Dugin in a birthday greeting he posted on the Telegram messaging channel, a few minutes after midnight.