2023-02-27
16:25
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He is to Soviet and Russian ice hockey what Lev Yashin was to football. Vladislav Tretjak (71) has been head of the Russian Hockey Federation for 17 years. But he is also a member of the State Duma in Russia. Because of this function, he has just been sanctioned. More political and economic sanctions. They were imposed by Canada, the home of the game.
As a goalkeeper for the USSR national ice hockey team, he won three Olympic gold medals and one silver (1972-84). He also won 10 world titles (1970-83). He had the nicknames “the man of the wall” and “the man with a thousand hands”. He was not allowed to play in the NHL, because over the years of his career the USSR did not grant permission for foreign contracts. He worked in the United States and Canada in the 1990s, mainly as a goalkeeper coach.
Since 2003 he has been a member of the State Duma. As a deputy of the aggressor country, he has been subject to sanctions which not only do not allow him to enter the country, but also result in the freezing of assets, the prohibition of entering into transactions with certain people or make goods available to them, and provide any financial support.
Such sanctions against members of the Duma, including Tretyak, have been imposed, among others, by the European Union (the day before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine), the United States, Australia, Japan, Switzerland and Great Britain. Now Canada has joined them.
“The inclusion of Tretyak, a world legend remembered and respected in Canada, whose name appears in local hockey museums of fame, is a display of blind Russophobia and disrespect for ordinary Canadians who are proud of the history of this sport”, Russian Ambassador to Canada cheekily declared Oleg Stepanov. – Our fellow citizens who are on the list look at these measures with a smile. This is a sign of the impotence of the anti-Russian camp, which hates Russia but understands that we cannot be defeated.”
Canada has just made a commitment to increase its military support to Ukraine. He sends to our eastern neighbor mr. four other Leopard 2 tanks.
