The American Daily Beast website published a report by writer Julia Davis, in which she said that the Moscow media did not like the recent video message of the famous American actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger, in which he urged the Russian people not to be deceived by Putin's lies about Ukraine.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's video appeal to the Russian people was remarkably effective.

And the famous movie star and former California governor posted it not only on Twitter, but also on Telegram, which is used almost exclusively by Russians.

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The video has received 35.6 million views, 431.8 thousand retweets, and 1.3 million likes on Twitter alone.

For days, Russian state media tried to completely ignore the appeal, but millions of views across multiple platforms forced it to address Schwarzenegger's powerful message.

Davis said that television presenter Vadim Gegin on a state television program, last Sunday evening, with Vladimir Solovyev, expressed his anger about Arnold Schwarzenegger and his video, saying, "That face is the cover page of American imperialism and colonialism, I do not mean the caricature of Uncle Sam, but a picture Schwartz, produced by Hollywood.

Giggin seemed particularly upset by the first comments Arnold made in his video.

In an attempt to avoid the Russian state media's tendency to immediately dismiss any criticism of Russia as "anti-Russia," Arnold opened his speech by reminding him of his fondness for the Russian people, with years of positive interactions long before Vladimir Putin launched an all-out war against Ukraine.

“He, in California, is going to tell us who lives here?! (…) That’s their approach to us,” Giggin said angrily, recounting the second half of Schwarzenegger’s video, in which he mentioned the trophy presented to him by weightlifting champion Yuri Vlasov, which Arnold still uses to this day. this.

Geigin saw that Schwarzenegger had never understood Vlasov, who opposed the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Giggin pointed out that Vlasov could not transfer anything from his brain to Schwarzenegger by shaking his hand and a cup of talent, then entered the host Vladimir Solovyev, noting that Schwarzenegger twice traveled to Iraq to support American forces and never tried to tell the Iraqi people about the reason for their destruction.

TV presenter Vadim Gegin on a government television program attacks Arnold Schwarzenegger's statements (social networking sites)

We like to wage war

The video also angered Russian weightlifting champion Mariana Naumova, who previously expressed her admiration for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Commenting in a letter published by the Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda, she accused Schwarrings of "living in an alternate fantasy reality".

She accused the Ukrainian government of Nazism, claiming "the fact that Mr. Zelensky, as I said, a Jew, did not help them. Nazism has no nationality, and Nazism is not based on the word 'German'. And hatred of Russia is no better than anti-Semitism."

Referring to Schwarzenegger's famous feature films, Naumova said, "Do you remember how your hero in Terminator 2 goes back to the past to prevent the creation of Skynet, which will lead to the death of all humanity? The Russian special military operation is not aimed at destroying the people." Ukrainian. They are targeting the neo-Nazi "Skynet", who over the years completely subjugated Ukraine and was on the verge of turning into an uncontrollable monster, dangerous to all its neighbors, not only to us."

Zakhar Prilibin, a famous Russian writer who boasted of "the killing of many" in the recent war in Donbass, wanted by the Security Service of Ukraine for "participation in the activity of a terrorist organization", also uttered harsh words to Arnold.

Prilibin wrote on his Telegram channel: “In his video message, Schwarzenegger, who killed 3 million Russians in his films, told the Russian people how much the Russian people love us and how wrong we are about Ukraine (...) This Austrian, his father's son, who served in the Nazi SS and was wounded near Leningrad, he's trying to be a good policeman."

Prilibin complained that the United States was "pumping weapons into Ukraine to kill the Russians", and did not mention that Russia was the aggressor in this war.

"You are a predator and an enemy," he added.

As a guest on Sunday's Soloviev Show, Prilepin stressed that Russians should not try to impress the West with their humanity and goodwill.

He argued that Russia's approach to the West should be as tough as possible "if they are seriously afraid of conflict with Russia, or World War III, or nuclear war or an escalation of conflict, we must convince them that we are ready, because we love it, and we love waging war." .