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Bloomberg: German Defense Chief Pistorius compares Putin to Hitler
At a book event on Winston Churchill, German Defense Minister Pistorius draws parallels between Russian President Putin's war in Ukraine and Adolf Hitler's annexation of Czechoslovak territory, urging Europe to prepare for the possibility of a major Russian attack.
From Anschluss to Invasion: Putin follows Hitler’s playbook
Despite the lessons of appeasing Hitler before WWII, world leaders have again failed to deter authoritarian aggression from Russia
Putin using Kaliningrad exactly the way Hitler did when it was called East Prussia, Skobov says
In the late 1930s, Hitler demanded the opening of “a Polish corridor” to Germany’s East Prussia, triggering a…
Western policies of appeasement produced a monster… again
The West did not stop Hitler in 1938 In 1938, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi army seized a…
After 1945, Soviet forces made Nazi death camps part of the GULAG, Moscow portal says
The Putin regime denounces every suggestion that Stalin’s dictatorship was in any way like Hitler’s. It has even…
80 years ago Stalin deported German anti-fascist, communist, Jewish refugees to Hitler
The pact with Stalin made it possible for Germany to unleash a military attack on Poland just one…
Stalin’s NKVD and Hitler’s Gestapo cooperated closely even before Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Perhaps the only thing that outrages Russian defenders of Stalin more than the obvious parallels between his regime…
Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact revisited, Part 3: The way to European catastrophe
Read the previous parts: 1) The interwar prelude 2) Hitler’s Anschluss In the West, much sympathy existed with Hitler…
Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact revisited, Part 2: Hitler’s Anschluss
Read the previous part: The interwar prelude If Stalin had an ambition for the conquest of Poland, so…
Hitler’s anschluss and Putin’s: Similarities and differences
Seventy-nine years ago today, Adolf Hitler issued the law on the unification of Austria and Germany, an event…
Trump and Ukraine: ‘a small country far away about which we know little’?
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s dismissal of Czechoslovakia as an artificial country created at Versailles and one that…
Moscow analyst: Britain’s support for Poland, not Molotov-Ribbentrop, caused WW2, and its backing of Ukraine could trigger WW3
Moscow analyst Yury Mukhin offers an historical analogy which says far more than he intends. In a new…
‘Nobody talks about the Armenians anymore’
Adolf Hitler infamously observed that he believed that he could get away with killing the Jews of Europe…
Putin making the same mistake Hitler did, Piontkovsky says
After meeting with the leaders of Britain and France, Adolf Hitler concluded that he was dealing with non-entities…
Hitler-Stalin pact still casts a shadow over Europe 77 years on
Seventy-seven years ago, Hitler and Stalin reached the agreement on the division of Eastern Europe into spheres of…
June 22, 1941 – the day Hitler and Stalin ceased to be allies
Seventy-five years ago, Adolf Hitler attacked the USSR, thus ending a period of almost two years when he…
Archives show Stalin was ready to give Hitler Ukraine and the Baltics
A few days after Hitler broke his alliance with Stalin and invaded the Soviet Union, the Soviet dictator…
WWII. Now the occupier is Putin not Hitler
On the eve of the anniversary of the victory over Nazism in World War II, the Russian Foreign…
Why Germans supported Hitler to the end and why Russians may do the same with Putin
In a recent book review essay in the New York Review of Books, military historian Max Hastings cites…