➡️Putin’s Hitler-like tricks & tactics in #Ukraine
"The glorification of violence and the disregard for law is central to the history of fascism. Taking law seriously and preventing senseless war was supposed to be the lesson learned from World War II" bostonglobe.com/2022/02/24/opi…
"The glorification of violence and the disregard for law is central to the history of fascism. Taking law seriously and preventing senseless war was supposed to be the lesson learned from World War II" bostonglobe.com/2022/02/24/opi…
"Jews are the real Nazis"—historian @TimothyDSnyder unpacks #Russia's fascist anti-Semitic "denazification" #propaganda:
"It is hard to think of something darker than invading a democracy with a Jewish leader in the name of fighting Nazis."
Zelensky's family died in Holocaust.
"It is hard to think of something darker than invading a democracy with a Jewish leader in the name of fighting Nazis."
Zelensky's family died in Holocaust.
https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1497229600748969986
@TimothyDSnyder 💯Snyder: Using the language of WWII, Putin imagines Russians can be mobilized thru references to historical trauma. He also deliberately trivializes the Holocaust. Invoking genocide & Nazis to justify invading Ukraine, he mocks history & insults those who survived & remember it. 
@TimothyDSnyder "Medvedev weds this antisemitic canard to the perverse insult that if Zelensky is not a Nazi himself, he serves Nazis. All of these senseless & painful exploitations of history that people rightly take seriously serve a purpose: to make it harder for anyone to do so in the future
@TimothyDSnyder "Nazi" #Ukraine is Putin's Big Lie. So Orwellian, so outrageous.
"Russia’s leaders mock symbols that are so important that people just cannot believe that they would do such a thing…Mockery of the Holocaust is so shocking that people do not wish to believe that it is happening"
"Russia’s leaders mock symbols that are so important that people just cannot believe that they would do such a thing…Mockery of the Holocaust is so shocking that people do not wish to believe that it is happening"
@TimothyDSnyder Snyder: Putin's false Nazi atrocity talk about #Ukraine distracts from HIS fascism—his "Hitlerian tricks & tactics"
Putin "spoke of protecting 'people bound by blood' from a 'virus.' Hitlerian tricks and tactics.…These were Hitler’s moves in 1938, just as they are Putin’s now."
Putin "spoke of protecting 'people bound by blood' from a 'virus.' Hitlerian tricks and tactics.…These were Hitler’s moves in 1938, just as they are Putin’s now."
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