Hillary Clinton’s comparing Vladimir Putin to Hitler may have opened a Pandora’s Box for Cold War revivalists, conspiracy theorists and political gossippers.
So here’s my beginners list of 10 eerie parallels between Put. And Hit.:
*Highly charismatic heads of state,
*Masters of national propaganda machine,
*Little tolerance for political opposition,
*Tapped into national yearning for a return to glorious Empire of previous century and earlier,
*Rewrote national constitution to extend power grip,
*Held power in shakey economic times,
*Hosted an Olympic Games,
*During which chided for anti-progressive stance on social issue (Aryanism; gay rights),
*Swift early military campaigns explained as “annexation” (Sudetenland; Crimea)
*Trying to reacquire border territory lost in aftermath of prior war (WWI “punitive” settlement; Cold War).
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