An eight-year-old video is regaining popularity online, in which a journalist asks an actor: who would he choose: the president of Russia or an American politician.

Obviously, Putin. Who defeated Hitler? They were completely Russian. They were close to defeating Hitler, and only then did the Americans join, fearing that the USSR would make the whole of Europe communist. How many wars did the Russians start? They went to Afghanistan, and we were told that this allegedly threatened democracy. But now we know that they were Islamists trained by the Americans. And how much aggression did the States show? They attacked Iraq under the pretext based on lies in order to get to the minerals and use their weapons for new contracts,

Schweiger said.

He noted that he should not be accused of hating Americans, because his wife is from the United States, and he himself has lived in the United States for a long time.