[Forward the Light Brigade]

I don’t think he said that—its the old Putin=Hitler thing Ukraine is using to get money from the west.

[ansel12]

Could be, but remember that Putin appeals to the gullible and impressionable, that is why he does so many soft, shirtless poses and pretends to do masculine and heroic activities all the time, even to the extent of making fake discoveries, and pretending to be a horseman.