Nazi-Communist Putin

 Putin has claimed that Russia is currently fighting in Ukraine because there are Nazis in Ukraine.

Putin has also called the collapse of the Soviet Union the worst Geopolitical Event and has worked hard to bring it back (using the old Soviet National Anthem again, invading and occupying parts of Georgia, invading and occupying parts of Ukraine, praising Stalin and bringing Russia back to a Dictatorship, etc.)

Putin seems to love both the Nazis and the Communists since he has been using both of their playbooks in his 23 year Dictatorship both inside Russia and around the World.

(This picture (from a Nazi German Newspaper) shows an ethnic Russian Group  - the National Choir – giving a performance to the Nazis sometime between 1939 and 1941.)

Josef Stalin loved the Nazis too (he had a one-sided Bromance with Adolf Hitler.)

Stalin worked hard to make the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in August 1939 in which both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union would be able to occupy lands in Eastern Europe (as the Nazis did in western Poland in September 1939 and the Soviets did in eastern Poland in 1939 and in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Moldova in 1940.)

Another aspect of the Pact was that the USSR would give Nazi Germany raw materials and Nazi Germany would give the Soviet Union money. The Soviets sent their last shipment of raw materials to the Germans a few hours before the Germans attacked the Soviets in June 1941.

The Nazis and the Soviets also exchanged Cultural Aspects with each other from September 1939 until June 1941.

People have said that Stalin was only using Hitler (as Hitler clearly was using Stalin) but when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 Stalin felt so personally betrayed by “his” Hitler” that he fled from all public and private work.

It was the Soviet Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov (of the infamous Molotov-Rippentrop Pact) who announced to the Soviet People via radio that the Germans had invaded the USSR. It was also Molotov who ran the War until July 3, 1941 when Stalin finally overcame his heart-break and got over his Bromance with Hitler that he turned into a real Crazy Ex that had been dumped.

Stalin issued Order No. 270  in 1941 that made it illegal for any Soviet Citizen (Soldier or Civilian, Man, Woman or Child) to “allow” themselves to be captured by the Nazis.

Stalin issued Order No. 227 in 1942 which only reenforced the punishments for any Soviet Citizen allowing themselves to be captured by the Germans.

5.7 Million Soviet Soldiers became Prisoners-Of-War to the Germans during World War 2 and 3.5 Million of those were murdered (by starvation, in Gas Chambers, by shooting, etc.) Any of the 2.2 Million Soviet POWs liberated by the Allies in 1945 and that went back to the Soviet Union immediately went to a Soviet Gulag for several years for their “crime” of being captured.

Of the 5.1 Million Soviet Jewish Men, Women and Children that lived in German-Occupied Parts of the Soviet Union during World War 2  - 2.6 million of them were murdered by the Germans (in Mass Graves, in Death Camps, in Ghettos, in the Gas Chambers, etc.) The 2.5 Million Holocaust Survivors that returned to the Soviet Union – even from the Death Camps – immediately went to the Soviet Gulags for their “crime” of allowing themselves to be captured.

From 1945 until 1991 every Soviet Citizen (even in the Soviet Republics not occupied by the Nazis) who were even 1 day old on May 9, 1945 (Victory Day in the USSR) had to constantly fill a Questionnaire stating where they spent the War. If they were in a German Concentration Camp, a German Ghetto, a German Death Camp, doing Forced Labor in Nazi Germany or living under Nazi German Occupation anywhere they were discriminated against when applying for: the University, Vocational Schools, an International Passport, the Soviet Military, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the required Propiska for an apartment, ration books, etc.

You would think that things would change after Stalin died in 1953, but they didn’t. The official laws weren’t done away with until the 1993 Russian Constitution came into effect.

Getting back to Putin: In August 2009 the Russian Government (Vladimir Putin) condemned the Soviet Union’s 1939-1941 Collaboration with Nazi Germany as “immoral” yet he quickly changed his tone and started praising Stalin and following the Nazis – including his Paramilitary Groups like the Wagner Group.

Putin has used Hitler's Nazi Rulebook from Day 1 (in 2014 when he invaded, occupied, held a fake Referendum Vote and then annexed Crimea - Hitler did the same to Austria in 1938.)

Add to that the Massacres -in Bucha, Ukraine and other War Crimes the Russians are doing (including kidnapping Ukrainian Children and forcibly turning them into Russians - the Germans did the same at Babyn Yar, Ukraine and  kidnaped Czech and Polish Children to turn them into Germans during World War 2.)

We can only hope that Putin will continue to follow Hitler's Rulebook to the very end since we all know what happens.