[BroJoeK]

Timber Rattler: "Except that Putin is not a Nazi, and has committed no massacres."

Putin is exactly equivalent to democratically elected Chancellor Hitler in, let's say 1938, minus the anti-Semitism, which in those days had not yet reached the level of mass-murder.
Hitler's treatment of Jews in 1938 might be reasonably compared to Putin's treatment of, oh, say, Chechens.

[Timber Rattler]

Putin is exactly equivalent to democratically elected Chancellor Hitler in, let's say 1938, minus the anti-Semitism, which in those days had not yet reached the level of mass-murder. Hitler's treatment of Jews in 1938 might be reasonably compared to Putin's treatment of, oh, say, Chechens.

So Putin has written Mein Kampf and opened mass extermination camps?

[Jim Noble]

Putin is exactly equivalent to democratically elected Chancellor Hitler in, let's say 1938

Hitler was the most popular politician in Austria in 1938.

The Anschluss was enormously popular with Austrians. If Hitler had stopped with the Sudetenland, the NSDAP would still be in power, and Germany would be the most powerful country in the world.