"In turn, Nazi ideology promoted and was rooted in the messianism of the German nation and empire; it claimed to liberate the working man and woman; it emphasized the unity and solidarity of the nation; it identified one group, Jews, as the source of all evil; it was racist.

As even a quick glance at these features suggests, Putin's regime bears an uncomfortably close resemblance to Nazi Germany, while Putin himself closely resembles Hitler.

Putin's mobilization of Russians is not quite at Hitler's level; his use of domestic violence is more limited (though Alexei Navalny's murder suggests that violence may be about to take off); his network of punitive institutions is smaller than Hitler's, and his glorification of war is a tad more restrained.

Ideologically, Putin's Russia is racist, though far less obsessively so than Nazi Germany, but it, too, has identified a group " the Ukrainians " as the source of all of Russia's ills and tries to systematically destroy it."

- Putin is a Reasonable Dude

Yes, just ask the parents of all the children he's murdered in civilian air strikes on a neighboring sovereign country.

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- He Facilitates Murder and Land Theft on an Industrial Scale.
He Pays people to Usurp and Kill as State Policy.

But enough about Vlad....