Russia: Kremlin's 'Hate TV' Compares West to Nazis

BBC ^ | 3 October 2013

[nickcarraway]

Russian state TV presenters are using ever more extreme language to vilify government opponents - even comparing Western nations to the Nazis.

To mark the anniversary of the 1938 Munich Agreement, that handed the Czech Sudetenland to Hitler, Rossiya 1's current affairs flagship News of the Week likened the West's handling of Syria to the actions of Nazi Germany. "How did the Germans get the Sudetenland?" asked anchor Dmitry Kiselev. "Under the pretext of defending human rights," he answered, accusing the US, Britain and France of using talk of Syrians' rights to "encourage terrorist intervention".

A Rossiya 1 news bulletin let Stalinist author and editor Alexander Prokhanov go even further. "Then it was Hitler, and now it is America, devouring country after country before our very eyes, before the eyes of the whole world," he said. Dubbing the US a "bloody animal", he warned Russia could be its next victim. "The Munich collusion is a lesson to us all. Not a step back. Behind Syria lies the Russian border." Neither Prokhanov nor Rossiya 1 mentioned the August 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, by which Moscow gave Hitler the green light to invade Poland.

[cunning_fish]

>>>No, Stalin quite eagerly entered into the alliance with Nazi Germany. The quid pro quo was the joint invasion of Poland and a free hand for the Soviets in the Baltics. Stalin looked at the pact as a big win for the Soviet Union.<<<

Please, learn history. A love affair between Stalin and Hitler is an urban myth.
Soviets were at war with Axis before the WWII as we know it ever started.
Both with Germany by proxy in Spain since mid-1930s and against Japan in Mongolia and China.
In fact a poor performance of Japan’s armed forces against the Russians in Asia was a primary reason to divert their efforts into Pacific against US, believed to be a soft target at the time.
As for 1938 Stalin was seeking alliance with both UK and France to attack Germany but Munich ruined his expectation and he was left on his own.
He knew the war with Germany was inevitable but he has just purged his entire military leadership and failed to update arsenals that stuck at a level of earlier 1930s technology.
German pact was a bargain, it offered non-aggression guaranties, time to retrain and rearm and also an ability to occupy a few nations as a buffer zones ahead of Germany.