On 75th anniversary of WWII, Putin starts a new war

2014/9/2 1:32:14

 But a fact remains a fact: the Russian army has gone into the territory of Ukraine. Russia is the aggressor. And Russians must recognize that [their] country has attacked a neighboring country and that today, Ukrainians are in the position of the Poles in September 1939.”

 


From Euro Maidan Press 1, September 2014

 

Seventy-five years after Hitler began World War II in Europe with his invasion of Poland, Vladimir Putin has begun another war in Europe with his invasion of Ukraine. And both the pre-histories of these conflicts and the behavior of the two aggressions are “very similar,” according to Moscow commentator Boris Sokolov.

 

Writing on Grani.ru today, Sokolov points out that World War II became possible not only because of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which allowed Hitler to avoid a two-front war from the start, but also by the Nazi leader’s use of the notion of “oppressed German minorities” and efforts by England and France to avoid a conflict.

 

Putin has also invoked the supposed “oppressed status of ethnic Russians and Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine” to justify his military actions, Sokolov writes, and he has cleverly exploited the desire of Europeans and the West more generally to avoid any conflict with Moscow that might harm the economic and political well-being of the latter.

 

For full text, Link below

http://euromaidanpress.com/2014/09/01 ... i-putin-starts-a-new-war/

 

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