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Originally Posted by fulham
Comparing Hitler directly to Putin is idiotic
The western backed coup of the Yanukovich Government, gave Putin a golden opportunity to take Crimea, and justify occupying ethic Russian parts of Ukraine.
He can play the "Protecting ethnic russians from the illegitimate anti russian army" card and technically be correct.( Theres a great VICE documentary on how insane the anti russian protestors who ousted Yanukovich are, and similarly how insane the Ethnic Russian(russian backed) Militias in the east are). Really is a Crazy situation, with the average Ukrainian not caring about distinctions like Russian-Ukrainian, and European-ukrainian
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Agreed.
I have spent most of my cognitive years studying Nazi Germany- and to draw any parallels between the two beggars belief. Hitler has been analyzed to death by a myriad of very good authors in the last twenty years and he was a product of a VERY select socioeconomic tenor, the likes of which will never (EVER) be seen again. Hitler=Stalin? I will buy into this one- they were contemporaries of each other; each doing their "own" thing in real time, during the period.
Authoritative?
Read Alan Bullock: "Parallel Lives", Richard Overy: "The Dictators", Ian Kershaw: "Hitler" (2 volumes), Richard Evans: Third Reich trilogy (three volumes), Read Adam Tooze: "The Wages of Destruction" which describes the economic picture in Germany during the Nazi ascension to power.. and follows it to the end.
To draw parallels between Hitler, Germany and ANY contemporary figure/nation is seriously stretching the bounds of credibility.
People that toss up such inflammatory statements without doing any homework on the matter should STFU.
Putin won't go any further than he has because he will get squashed like a bug. And he knows it. He is way more informed than Hitler ever was...
You can't compare a despot from the current era of instantaneous communication to one where the teletype was a brand new thing, TV was nascent, and even the telephone was reserved for those that "needed" one...
I grew up with a rotary dial telephone...
Say no more.
