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Putin’s attack on Ukraine echoes Hitler’s on Czechoslovakia – The Washington Post
The Nazi leader used similar tactics to dismember and devour Czechoslovakia before World War II By Michael E. Ruane, Feb. 24, 2022, at 1:15 p.m. EST By 1939, parts of Czechoslovakia had already been carved off and taken over by Nazi Germany, which claimed that millions of ethnic Germans were being persecuted there. The previous…
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DEAD SOUL | Vanity Fair | October 2008 | About Putin…
By Masha Gessen & Stéphane Lavoué, October 2008 Nearly every weekday morning one of Moscow’s central arteries, the Kutuzovsky Prospect, empties out suddenly, and an eerie, otherworldly silence takes hold. This means that police have sealed all the on-ramps to Kutuzovsky, an eight-lane avenue that cuts through the city from the west straight through to…