They compareme to hitler11/19/2022 ![]() “Although there were some attacks against the ethnic Russian community, these were neither systematic nor widespread.” The reports said: “In eastern Ukraine, where a large ethnic Russian minority resides, the situation remains particularly tense with ethnic Russians fearing that the central Government does not represent their interests. Russian troops appeared in Crimea shortly after Mr Yanukovych fell, and on March 16 a majority voted to join Russia in a referendum dismissed as illegitimate by western countries.Ī month after the poll, the UN Commission for Human Rights found no evidence that systematic or widespread attacks on ethnic Russians had taken place, and said fear of persecution had been exaggerated to increase support for the annexation of Crimea. We could not abandon Crimea and its residents in distress.” He added: “The residents of Crimea and Sevastopol turned to Russia for help in defending their rights and lives…naturally we could not leave this plea unheeded. He said the Maidan protest which toppled Ukraine’s pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, in February on was a coup staged by “nationalists, neo-Nazis, Russophobes and anti-Semites”.Īfter Maidan, Crimean Russians who opposed the new government in Kiev had been “immediately threatened with repression”, Mr Putin alleged. On 18 March Mr Putin said ethnic Russians in the Ukraine had been subject to “forced assimiliation” and attempts to suppress their language after the country declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. ![]() History has shown most of this to be pure fabrication. In various speeches throughout 1938, Hitler claimed that Sudeten Germans had been “maltreated and terrorised” for greeting each other in their mother tongue and endured brutal physical attacks. In March 1939 Hitler invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia. The allies agreed to the occupation of the Sudetenland and the territory became German in October 1938. He began to make increasingly lurid accusations of ill-treatment of the German-speaking minority by the Czechs, and vowed to protect them. The new state contained about 3 million ethnic Germans.īy 1938 Hitler had already returned the foreign-occupied Saar and Rhineland regions to Germany and engineered unification with Austria. The 1919 Treaty of St-Germain awarded the territory along with other German-speaking areas to the newly-created country of Czechoslovakia. The Sudeten region had belonged to Germany’s ally Austria-Hungary until her defeat in World War One. The speaker of the Czech senate, Milan Stech, Canadian foreign minister John Baird and the former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili have also draw comparisons with Hitler’s annexation of the Sudetenland, a largely German-speaking region of what was then Czechoslovakia. She added: “That is reminiscent of claims that were made back in the 1930s when Germany under the Nazis kept talking about how they had to protect German minorities in Poland and Czechoslovakia and elsewhere throughout Europe.” In March, Hillary Clinton referred to “claims by president Putin and other Russians…that they had to go into Crimea and maybe further into eastern Ukraine because they had to protect the Russian minorities”. Russia has been widely accused of sending covert military forces into the Black Sea and other areas of eastern Ukraine with large ethnic Russian populations, using the pretext of protecting the Russian minority to take over Ukrainian territory. Western-aligned politicians have already made a comparison between the Crimea crisis earlier this year and Hitler’s actions in the 1930s. Much of the uproar has focused on whether the prince ought to have offered an opinion on such a controversial issue, even if it was an off-the-cuff remark.īut Charles is not the only world figure to have made a comparison between Russia’s de facto annexation of the Crimea and Adolf Hitler’s efforts to annex former German territory shortly before World War Two. She said it was “just a little remark”, adding: “I didn’t think it was going to make such a big uproar.” Clarence House has declined to comment. ![]() The BBC quotes Ms Ferguson as recalling that the prince “said something to the effect of ‘it’s not unlike… what Putin is doing'”. The prince, who is on a tour of Canada, is said to have made the remarks to Marienne Ferguson, a Jewish refugee who fled Poland for Canada and lost relatives in the Nazi Holocaust.Īccording to the Daily Mail, while they were talking about Hitler invading other countries, Charles said: “And now Putin is doing just about the same as Hitler.” ![]() Prince Charles has made headlines around the world after he reportedly compared the actions of Vladimir Putin’s Russia in Ukraine to Hitler’s Germany. “And now Putin is doing just about the same as Hitler.” ![]()
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