Okay, I'm bored so I'm going to go over this step by step.
Hypocrisy is the "practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness". Now, we assume that the subject "one" implies a single human being. In Paul_Denton's statement (great game, by the way, if you're referring to that, Denton) he calls somebody a hypocrite. Since he's responding to the post of this thread that actually makes up a news entry, I assume he is speaking of one "Vladimir Putin", that is, the current President of Russia. Let's connect the dots- Paul_Denton is calling Putin a hypocrite. But why?
Luckily, Denton goes on to answer that question. Denton states in the next sentence that Putin is a hypocrite for condemning our bombs, even though Stalin intentionally murdered millions of his own people.
This is where, for me, it gets fuzzy. We've already made it clear that the definition of hypocrisy implies a single person. But if I'm to agree with common knowledge, Stalin and Putin are two different people! This is what leads me to believe that Paul_Denton is not using the word "hypocrite" correctly. Perhaps he could refer to actual actions that Putin could be considered responsible for, such as the gassing of a theatre full of hostages in an attempt to end a terrorist threat, that brought upon the deaths of 117 innocent lives. Or something.
Anyway, unless there is some incredible phenomenon of genetic memory in Russians, in which case Putin would have to be a descendent of Stalin, and even then blaming him for Stalin's actions could be disputable, I don't see how Denton's statement stands up to much analysis. =/
Yes I am referring to the Denton of the game Deus Ex. Just look at my profile. Anyway, hypocrite, hypocritical, whatever. Putin whines about the bombing raids over Dresden when in fact that Stalin was responsible for far more deaths. Hypocritical, double standard, whatever you want to call it. He has no right to lecture us about civilian deaths when Stalin and his KGB pals murdered far more people than anyone and is only equal to Mao.
Did I say I was blaming putin for stalins atrocities. NO. So don't act like I did.
In any case Putin is no friend of the west, but that's a nother subject entirly.