'He asked to repent for betrayal and fight the 'Nazis': Vladimir Mashkov made a scandal with his daughter living in the USA

Actress Masha Mashkova, the daughter of Russian actor Vladimir Mashkov, who spoke at a rally in support of the war with Ukraine, said that her father called her to return from the United States and ask for forgiveness for “betrayal,” reports with the BBC.

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“He asked me to immediately return to Russia, taking my daughters. To be a worthy citizen of Russia, to ask for forgiveness for betrayal and to help the people of Russia - my people - in the fight against the Nazis,” said the actress, who has lived in the United States for six years, in an interview with CNN.

When asked if the actress believes that millions of people in Russia may not know the details of the Ukrainian war, Mashkova replied that after yesterday's conversation with her father (in the past, she had repeatedly acted as a confidant of President Putin), she had to believe it.

“What is happening now is simply unimaginable, I can’t wrap my head around it,” added Mashkova. “It breaks my heart that many Russians, including my dad, believe that such violence is somehow justified. But what I experience cannot be compared with what the Ukrainian people are going through now. These people are dying."

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Shortly before appearing on air, the actress published an anti-war video on Instagram. The appeal begins with a confession: “I understand that now it’s easier for me to say: I’m in another country. They won’t take me into a paddy wagon—at most, they’ll declare me a traitor and an enemy of the people.”

Mashkova addresses “friends and colleagues in Russia”, “everyone who understands what is now happening to our country and to us; everyone who is now scared, in pain and unclear how to live.”

"There are a lot of us. We will definitely make it through. We can stop the terrible unjust war that our president started,” she assures.

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Vladimir Mashkov is a Russian actor and director, artistic director of the Moscow Oleg Tabakov Theater. In 2012, he ran for the State Duma on the United Russia list, but did not become a deputy. He was Putin's confidant in the March 2018 presidential elections. In April of the same year he became artistic director of the theater.
Mashkov spoke at a rally for the war in Ukraine and for Putin, which the authorities staged in Moscow's Luzhniki.

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