A video reappeared in recent years, in which the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher He strongly criticizes Russian President Vladimir Putin, realizing his character in the first period of his presidency, has gone viral on the internet.

In the video, recorded at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi on September 20, 2000, Thatcher criticized Putin’s lack of humanity during the Kursk submarine tragedy.

For several days, Russia under Putin did not allow international aid to help. When Putin finally allowed a Norwegian crew to rush to help the trapped in the submarine, it was too late.

The destruction resulted in the death of all 118 crew membersafter sinking into the Arctic Ocean, after a series of explosions during naval exercise on August 12 that year.

Putin, who was first sworn in in May 2000, accepted heavy criticism After continuing his vacation in the Russian city of Sochi as the crisis was evolving.

While Putin met with relatives of the Kursk sailors, he continued to criticize the Russian government.

Thatcher said in her speech that Putin’s actions revealed that it had a lack of humanity and empathy.

The former British leader, who referred to Russia as a “Soviet Union” during her speech, said: “Now we have the new Mr. Putin. I looked at Mr. Putin’s photos, trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should know better in a few weeks. Why do you know what happened? They had the terrible tragedy of the submarine that sank, directly to the bottom. Whether there was an explosion inside or not, we don’t know it. “

“But it was very interesting what happened. If there is ever disaster in the West, all the Armed Forces will go, they will send everything there immediately. Politicians will gather immediately and say: ” What help do we want, they can have (affected) what we can give. We don’t have the help [τότε] We’ll get it from somewhere else ”.

“There would be anxiety because what mattered was not the submarine but the lives of those who were in. And [το] Interestingly, the new leader of the Soviet Union did not work quickly. This was very soon the comment (internationally). Did not try to mobilize anyone else. We didn’t know if we could help or where to help help and send some of the small submarines only for such an occasion. This is my friends really very, very revealing. “

“They still do not appreciate human life in the same way that we appreciate it. And so all the help came, unfortunately, very late. And I am relieved in some way that Mr Putin has been criticized for what he should have done but did not. And this shows once again that the Soviet Union and the peoples of the Soviet Union know very well what could be done and that they could do much more than it is at the moment. “

It is noted that when CNN journalist Larry King asked Putin what happened to the submarine he just replied ‘Sank.’