Well worth the time, highly recommended, none better than Hanson, imho.
henkster: "9. Sought the extermination of distinct ethnic minorities through a program that began with persecution and ended with industrial scale mass murder: Hitler: yes. Putin: No."
The apt comparison is not to Hitler in, say, 1943, but rather in, say, 1938, before the Austrian Anschluss.
At that point, Hitler's insanity was not so apparent, and might even stand comparison to, say, Putin's war against Chechen rebels.
The Chechen issue isn’t really analagous to the “Jewish Question.” The Chechens have long been an active thorn in Russia’s side. According to the Soviets, they collaborated with the Nazis in World War 2, and earned their deportation to Central Asia. A number of Caucasian (particularly Moslem) peoples collaborated. The Chechens are conducting active terror campaigns in Russia, and, I might add, in the United States as well. In the Russian/Chechen feud it’s hard to tell who is right and who is wrong. But in no way do I see equivalency in that situation with the “Jewish Question” in 1938.