Putin Sees Nazis

[David Morris]

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/ivan-krastev-on-russia-s-invasion-of-ukraine-putin-lives-in-historic-analogies-and-metaphors-a-1d043090-1111-4829-be90-c20fd5786288

Political scientist Ivan Krastev is an astute observer of Vladimir Putin.
In an interview, he speaks of the Russian president's isolation, his
understanding of Russian history.

“[At a dinner in Sochi, shortly after the annexation of Crimea, Putin]
expressed
outrage that the annexation of the Crimea had been compared with Hitler’s
annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938. Putin lives in historic analogies
and metaphors. Those who are enemies of eternal Russia must be Nazis. And
so, he was quick to portray the conflicts in the Donbas as a genocide.
Putin’s overstatements became so extreme that they no longer had any
connection to reality. He has become hostage to his own rhetoric.”





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