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Article "Heres what can be learned from Putin-Hitler comparisons"
Posted on 8/11/14 at 10:37 am
Posted on 8/11/14 at 10:37 am
There's a few more parallels than you might think. althought i doubt Putin is a racist sociopath. This article points out that Putin has created an environment not unlike Germany prior to WWII. Interesting read.
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My loathing of the bad Hitler analogy notwithstanding, you have to be pretty ignorant of the history of Europe in the 1930s not to be more than a little creeped out by the similarities between what Adolf Hitler sought in Central Europe then and what Vladimir Putin is seeking in the former Soviet Union, especially Ukraine, now.
In both cases, you’ve got a kinda-elected dictator who has successfully stoked powerful ethno-nationalism to remain popular, while bringing the economy back from the dead after a huge national defeat, and focusing attention on the fate of your co-nationals who have been cruelly left outside your borders by the last war.
To fix that, you employ diplomacy, espionage, military power, threats, intimidation, and by far your best weapon is the unwillingness of your (actually far more powerful) adversaries to confront you in any sort of serious way. They fear conflict; you do not.
Hitler thereby managed to pull multiple diplomatic-cum-military rabbits from the hat in the latter half of the 1930s, remilitarizing the Rhineland in 1936, occupying both Austria and the Sudetenland in 1938 without bloodshed, then taking over the rest of the Czech lands in March 1939, meeting no resistance, after having promised London and Paris that was exactly what he would not do.
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This post was edited on 8/11/14 at 10:38 am
Posted on 8/11/14 at 11:04 am to BobBoucher
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There's a few more parallels than you might think. althought i doubt Putin is a racist sociopath.
Sure... Maybe he is not racist...
Posted on 8/11/14 at 11:06 am to klrstix
He's a proven xenophobe, at the best.
Posted on 8/11/14 at 11:33 am to BobBoucher
Excellent article/analysis.
Posted on 8/11/14 at 12:45 pm to USMCTiger03
Not being a smart arse, but I thought the comparison was rather obvious to most folks.
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