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
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Putin’s ‘anti-imperialism’ trope also taken from Nazi playbook, Zizek says
Many in the West believe, as Putin intends them to that his talk about fighting imperialism precludes the…
Moscow using real neo-Nazis to fight its war in Ukraine, German intelligence concludes
Even though the Kremlin regularly claims that it is fighting Nazism in Ukraine, a claim that is without…
Putin isn’t ‘copying the Nazis’ as some in the West say; he is a Nazi, Skobov says
Some in the West are now beginning to say that Putin and his entourage are “’copying the Nazis,’”…
Medvedev makes it clear the call for genocide against Ukraine came from the Kremlin
When Russian commentator Timofey Sergeytsev published his horrific plan for the destruction of Ukraine and Ukrainians, many in…
Latest from Moscow on Ukraine more frighteningly explicit than even Hitler, Savvin says
Many people of good will in Russia, Ukraine and around the world have been horrified by the recent…
To ‘de-Nazify’ Ukraine, Moscow must impose a brutal generation-long occupation, Novosti journalist says
In vicious language that makes the notorious Morgenthau Plan for Germany in 1945 look like a first draft…
Russia’s war against covid likely to have consequences like its war against Japan in 1904-1905, El Murid says
For the Putin regime, the war against the coronavirus pandemic is increasingly analogous to the tsarist regime’s war…
Russia’s moves toward fascism come ‘not just from Putin,’ Russian human rights campaigner says
Many Russians blame their country’s moves toward fascism on Vladimir Putin alone, Lev Ponomaryov says. But it is…
Putin has created a Fifth International organizing the right, Felshtinsky says
Marx created the First International; Engels established the Second; Lenin, the Third; Trotsky, the Fourth; and now Vladimir…
‘Any effort to establish a dictatorship in Russia will end with a Stalinist one,’ Ikhlov says
The recent arrests of Russian government officials Abyzov and Ishayev like the earlier ones of Belykh, Ulyukayev and…
Yakovenko: Putinist fascism – not an ideology but a set of criminal ‘understandings’
Vladimir Putin’s fascism, the first “post-modern” fascism, is able to include under its banner so many radically different…
Putinism represents triumph of ‘feudal traditionalist reaction,’ Skobov says
Many commentators suggest that what Vladimir Putin is doing is restoring Sovietism, but they are mistaken, Aleksandr Skobov…
The Ordinary Fascism
Note with how much love the [Russian] military propagandists talk about everything that brings death to others. On the 55th…
Russian ‘Maxim’ identifies 16 varieties of Russian patriots
Even though the Russian Constitution prohibits a state ideology, Vladimir Putin has made the promotion of patriotism as…
After Putin, Russia to become even greater threat to Ukraine, Kyiv analyst says
Many Ukrainians and others believe that after Vladimir Putin leaves the scene, Moscow will return Crimea and the…
Moscow continues to prepare mercenaries for Ukraine
Although the ceasefire in the Donbas appears to be holding for now and although the world’s attention has…
Jewish scholar fleeing ‘Nazi-like atmosphere’ of Putin’s Russia
Ilya Frank, a Jewish linguist whose approach has defined how Russians study foreign languages for more than a…
74 years after Hitler’s invasion, Russia — not Ukraine — moving toward fascism, Inozemtsev says
Seventy-four years ago today, Hitler turned on his ally Stalin and invaded the Soviet Union, an action that…
Kyiv commentator: Putin isn’t an imperialist; he’s a Nazi
Vladimir Putin’s statements about Ukraine in his “direct line” program yesterday look “moderate” but only in comparison with…