Apr 2, 2022 · Russian President Vladimir Putin often evokes the Soviet Union’s epic defeat of Nazi Germany during World War II to justify his country’s invasion of Ukraine.

Mar 10, 2024 · Putin’s Russia may not be quite as rabidly Nazi as Nazi Germany, but it is surely Nazi enough to be termed a Nazi-like state — or, if one prefers, a Nazi-lite state.

Jul 17, 2024 · Russia’s Putin has much in common with Nazi Germany's Führer, from his path to consolidated power to having his own distorted view of history and possessing a desire to fulfill his fateful destiny.

Feb 9, 2024 · Poland's top diplomat has reacted with outrage to Russian President Vladimir Putin's claim that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was "forced" to initiate World War II with the 1939 invasion of...

May 3, 2022 · The Nazis argued that Germany should have one people, one empire, and one Führer; the Putinists claimed that Putin embodied the state. Nazi propaganda emphasized Hitler’s genius and benevolence;...

Jan 29, 2024 · As we return to the present day, one may argue that the United States now fits Britain’s role as the declining global power. The specter of a looming global threat is no longer Germany, but China. Vladimir Putin’s Russia, challenging international norms, is Mussolini’s Italy.

Mar 27, 2015 · Putin had arrived in Dresden in the mid-1980s for his first foreign posting as a KGB agent. The German Democratic Republic or GDR - a communist state created out of the Soviet-occupied zone of...

Even before Russia's military began its invasion of Ukraine, the comparisons between the contemporary Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and the Nazi-era fuehrer, Adolf Hitler, began...

Sep 12, 2023 · When Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, there were many comparisons drawn with Nazism and Adolf Hitler.

Dec 24, 2022 · Putin's speeches invoke Russia's fight against fascism in WWII to justify the war in Ukraine — and use propaganda strategies from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, historian says Kelsey Vlamis