Posted on 05/09/2007 2:15:37 PM PDT by vahet pole
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin of Russia obliquely compared the foreign policy of the United States to the Third Reich in a speech Wednesday commemorating the 62nd anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany, in an apparent escalation of anti-American rhetoric within the Russian government.
Putin did not specifically name the United States or NATO but used phrasing similar to that which he has used previously to criticize American foreign policy while making an analogy to Nazi Germany.
The comments marked the latest in a series of sharply worded Russian criticisms of the foreign policy of the Untied States - on Iraq, missile defense, NATO expansion and, broadly, the accusation that the United States has striven to single-handedly dominate world affairs.
Some political analysts see the new tone as a return to Cold War-style rhetoric by a country emboldened by petroleum wealth. But Russians say the sharper edge is a reflection of frustration that Russia's views, particularly its opposition to NATO expansion, have been ignored in the West.
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I wonder what he actually said as opposed to the spin.
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It’s already flying in America every time Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid open their pie holes.
Is it or what?
Russia is becoming very dangerous. We need to stay vigilant.
Thank you !
The US foreign policy resembles the Third Reich but the Soviet Union didn’t? Putie, if anyone resembled the Nazis it was your own former country. The Soviet-German nonagression pact, the gulags (which were just as bad as concentration camps), and Stalin killed more people than Hitler did. Look in the mirror, Putin.
Well it’s not like the old USSR had a stellar human rights record.
I believe it was Congressman Harry S. Truman who once opined that “we should arm whichever side seems to be losing”; in the hopes that they (nazis and communists) would kill each other off.
I think you’ve got it. The article itself seems to have been made from whole cloth.
So who values Vladimir Putin’s opinion?
The world becomes more dangerous too. NATO expands. The new military bases come to Russian borders. Russia has to adapt herself. Russian wisdom shows: “The best friends of Russia are her army, fleet and aviation”.
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Nice to see a lot of Polish folk signing up there.
He writes:
For example the praetorian guards of Bolsheviks who protected their government was Latvian Rifle Division. Few of Latvians was in highest positions in Bolshevik government. One Latvian was deputy of Felix Dzervinskii who in turn was pole by nationality and father founder and first head of CheKA then OGPU (the soviet secret police). Later their help in Bolshevik victory "paid off" when Stalin decided to bring their home countries (Baltic states) into Soviet Union. Considering that their own people helped Reds to take power one may say that they brought mishap on themselves.
This is totally twisted depiction of the history. To suggest that because some commie sympathizers were joining the Bolsheviks and infiltrating the local governments is a legitimate excuse for a 50 year Soviet occupation is ridiculous.
After the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact when Germany and Russia divided Poland and Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fell in the Soviet zone, the Soviets started pressuring Finland and the Baltic States to accept it's military forces in their soil. Reluctantly the Baltic States signed a "mutual assistance" package. Finland refused to sign it which in 1940 resulted in a Winter War where Soviet Union tried to invade Finland and ultimately was defeated.
In 1939 the Soviet Army occupied the Baltics and immediately started cleaning the countries from "anti-soviet" elements. A direct aggression against the Baltic States happened in June of 1940 when the rest of the world was busy watching Hitler parading around in Paris.
Soviet Union accused the Baltics of violating the terms of the mutual assistance pact and conspiracy.
Moscow with a help of a handful of local traitors organized a mock elections where all non-communist candidates were disqualified. The results were printed in the media a day before the polls even closed.
Now with the communists ruling the Parliament the "voluntary" entry to the Soviet Union was inevitable.
To say that the Baltics brought mishap on themselves is nothing but another insult from the supporters of the aggressors and occupiers.
Nazi-Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk
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