| Russia | Germany | |
| 1991 - Loses the Cold War. Russia becomes the successor to the USSR. Loses significant territory. Partial demilitarization. | 1918 - Loses World War One. Germany becomes the successor to the German Empire. Loses significant territory. Partial demilitarization. Forced to pay reparations. | |
| 1991-1997 - Gaidar’s “shock reforms”. Struggle with negative consequences of collapse of the USSR, hyperinflation, separatism (Chechen War), and attempts to overturn existing government (political crisis of 1993). | 1919-1928 - Liberal reforms. Struggle with negative consequences of war, hyperinflation, separatism (Bavarian Soviet Republic, 1919), and attempts to overturn existing government (Communist protests). | |
| 1998 - Worldwide economic crisis. | 1929 - Worldwide economic crisis. | |
| 1999 - Following a wave of revanchist sentiments, Yeltsin appoints a young KGB corporal, Vladimir Putin, as president. Putin wins the 2000 elections. | 1933 - Following a wave of revanchist sentiments, young leader of (Nationalist Socialist German Worker's Party (NSDAP), Adolf Hitler, comes to power. | |
| 2000s - United Russia, the ruling party, is strengthened across all branches of government. | 1930s - the NSDAP, the ruling party, is strengthened across all branches of government | |
| 2001 - Signing of the Shanghai Organization of Cooperation (a Eurasian political, economic and military organisation founded by the leaders of Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan). | 1935 - Signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact (an anti-communist pact concluded between Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan). | |
| 2000s - Rapid economic growth. Increase in financing and modernization of defense branch. | 1930s - Rapid economic growth. Increase in financing and modernization of defense branch. | |
| 2014 - Winter Olympics in Sochi: Russia finishes in first place. | 1936 - Summer Olympics in Berlin: Germany finishes in first place. | |
| 2014 - Russian troops enter and establish control over Crimea under the pretense of protecting the Russian-speaking population. | 1938 - Anschluss of Austria and annexing Sudetenland under the pretense of protecting the German-speaking population. |
Source: FB
Translated by Anna Shvets, edited by Lesia Stangret
