Posted on 05/23/2014 8:18:00 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Writing in "Mein Kampf," Hitler referred to the German surrender at the end of World War I and the subsequent Treaty of Versailles as the "greatest villainy of the century," calling those responsible "miserable and degenerate criminals" who "were ready to sacrifice the whole nation, and, if necessary, to let Germany be destroyed; and in my eyes this made them ripe for hanging." He asked, "how could this deed be justified to future generations?"
Putin employed similar terminology in discussing the fall of the Soviet Union: "Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian nation, it became a genuine drama. Tens of millions of our co-citizens and compatriots found themselves outside Russian territory."
Of Crimea and surrounding regions, more specifically, Putin decried that "the Bolsheviks, for a number of reasons – may God judge them – added large sections of the historical South of Russia to the Republic of Ukraine." And "the residents of Crimea...were handed over like a sack of potatoes." Similarly, "the people could not reconcile themselves to this outrageous historical injustice."
Thus each man sought a similar goal -- reuniting a conceptual historical nation that had supposedly lost many of its "rightful" lands.
Hitler's ultimate goal -- the Third Reich -- sought to bring together all peoples and lands Hitler perceived as Germanic: "the German nation has arisen and has unfurled the banner of a reunion which symbolically announces, not a political triumph, but the triumph of the racial principle."
Likewise, in announcing the annexation of Crimea, Putin asked for support for "the aspiration of the Russians, of historical Russia, to restore unity."
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Hitler was a megalomaniac. Putin may be a strong nationalist, but not mentally ill, or a psychopath.
It is sad to say, but I have more respect for Putin then I do Obumbo. At least Putin is a man.
Prince Charles is a global warming Socialist, he’s like ALGORE
Like all crazy human ideas that mutate in all directions, yes, sometimes. The 19th century thing was much more highbrow intellectual though.
Putin is trying a bit too hard, don’t you think, to LOOK like a real man?
And you know the reason why as well, because he is way gay.
Go ahead, google putin kisses boys stomach if you need any further evidence.
What do you call a man who lifts a little boy’s shirt, leans over and kisses him on the stomach? Would you allow a man to do that to your son?
I see that someone else gets the fact that Putin is gay. Only gay men have bugger boys.
Puppets have the flexibility to dance on command.
At least Alina Kabaeva the girlfriend of putin is a woman and looks like a woman unlike obamas “wife”
Among the irredentist faddists, let us not forget, were the Zionists. Back in 1890s Vienna, the Jews were just one more bunch among the nationalist Poles, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovenes, Rumanians, Serbs.
A heck of a lot came out of the 19th century Italian business.
Crony Capitalism is National Socialism. We need to look in the mirror first before we judge.
Damning Putin with faint praise, are you?
“Damning Putin with faint praise, are you?”
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No, I do not praise Putin, but I respect him more then I do Obumbo, even though Putin’s aims are not fully understood.
I do not, however, for one moment think that Putin desires the old USSR with control of central Europe.
`Italia irredenta’ referred IIRC to regions in Italy’s far north that were claimed/ruled by other nations despite their ethnic Italian majority. Trieste and South Tyrol come to mind (Austria, then Yugoslavia) where the place name signs still display Italian/German versions. This was expanded by the irredentists to include Corsica, Nice, and even the Greek island of Corfu.
Irredentism provided Hitler the perfect excuse for annexing the Sudetenland given its majority German population. The problem with irredentism is that one never knows when to stop.
A man who has raped his country to the tune of 50-75 billion dollars can have any hooker he wants.
Thank you. It makes perfect sense. Putin is indeed using that as his pretext.
This must be a first.
Prince Charlie is a Limey Pissing Wanker
Look at the condition of England..flooded with Muslim invaders
and Healthcare shot to hell
Leftist ideas running wild....a shithole.
And Prince Charlie is a Global warming Green Moron.
England will rot on the vine before our eyes.
I agree with your assessment.
Even a broken clock is correct twice a day.
[Prince Charlie is a Limey Pissing Wanker]
And he was reared by a queen.
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