Compare Putin now, to say Peter the Great or any other Czar.
Putin should be compared in context with other historical Russian leaders, not German ones.
He should, but the article was discussing a comparison with Hitler and that’s what I addressed. The biggest difference between the czars and Putin is also his greatest, and most dangerous similarity to Hitler; the desire to unify ethnic Russians/Germans into one “Motherland.” The post 17th century czars didn’t have to worry about that. I don’t realy consider the Pan Slavic movement with the czar as “The Great Father” as being equivalent.