Russia adopts war-time rhetoric in showdown with Ukraine
Russian official rhetoric has increasingly compared events in Ukraine to the darkest crimes of Nazi Germany, ahead of next week's anniversary of Soviet victory in World War II.
Since the beginning of the crisis in Ukraine, Russian television and officials have made frequent references to the "fascists" Moscow claims are now running Ukraine.
But the latest outbreak of deadly violence has seen the official Moscow propaganda reach new heights, analysts said.
The fire in the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa that claimed at least 42 lives on Friday has been swiftly dubbed a new "reprisal raid" and even the "new Khatyn," a reference to the Belarussian village where 149 residents were burned alive by the Nazis in 1943.
The entire village was punished for the death of a Nazi officer and the Nazi battalion behind the massacre consisted of collaborators including nationalists from western Ukraine.
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NATO supported the most vile extremists in Libya.
They support them in Syria.
When you lose your moral compass, anything is possible.
The ends justify the means. Democracy is messy, etc. Just yesterday we had people dismissing the supporter of the SS, because Putin.
It's just backwards
Supporting the Mujahideen, the saudis, south american death squads, Operation Phoenix, japanese unit 731...
There's are a lot of cynical people who believe the ends justify the means, it goes way back. I'm guessing all the way to our founding and the extermination of the native populations.
Hang in there my brother, we may stick out around here, against the prevailing zeitgeist, sometimes thats a good thing.
