Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Putin likens U.S. foreign policy to that of Third Reich
International Herald Tribune ^ | May 9, 2007 | Andrew E. Kramer

Posted on 05/09/2007 2:15:37 PM PDT by vahet pole

MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin of Russia obliquely compared the foreign policy of the United States to the Third Reich in a speech Wednesday commemorating the 62nd anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany, in an apparent escalation of anti-American rhetoric within the Russian government.

Putin did not specifically name the United States or NATO but used phrasing similar to that which he has used previously to criticize American foreign policy while making an analogy to Nazi Germany.

The comments marked the latest in a series of sharply worded Russian criticisms of the foreign policy of the Untied States - on Iraq, missile defense, NATO expansion and, broadly, the accusation that the United States has striven to single-handedly dominate world affairs.

Some political analysts see the new tone as a return to Cold War-style rhetoric by a country emboldened by petroleum wealth. But Russians say the sharper edge is a reflection of frustration that Russia's views, particularly its opposition to NATO expansion, have been ignored in the West.

(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: belarus; coldwar; coldwar2; communism; kgb; politboro; premierputin; putin; russia; sovietunion; supremesoviet; ussr
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-93 next last
To: vahet pole

I wonder what he actually said as opposed to the spin.


41 posted on 05/10/2007 8:02:10 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: vahet pole
it is only a matter of time before this flies over the Kremlin again...


42 posted on 05/10/2007 11:30:57 AM PDT by Thunder90
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: lizol; Lukasz; strategofr; GSlob; spanalot; Thunder90; Tailgunner Joe; propertius; REactor; ...
Russia/Soviet/Coldwar2 PING!!!

To be added or removed from this list, please FReepmail me.

43 posted on 05/10/2007 11:31:57 AM PDT by Thunder90
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Thunder90

It’s already flying in America every time Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid open their pie holes.


44 posted on 05/10/2007 12:06:17 PM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: DB
Precisely!

Is it or what?

45 posted on 05/10/2007 12:12:41 PM PDT by PissAndVinegar
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: sergeantdave

46 posted on 05/10/2007 12:43:26 PM PDT by vader69
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]

To: Thunder90

Russia is becoming very dangerous. We need to stay vigilant.


47 posted on 05/10/2007 1:39:08 PM PDT by MARKUSPRIME
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies]

To: vahet pole; eesti
You could post this link in some mayor Estonian forum.

http://www.pro-estonia.eu/index.php?lang=en

48 posted on 05/10/2007 2:04:15 PM PDT by Lukasz
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Lukasz

Thank you !


49 posted on 05/10/2007 4:26:47 PM PDT by vahet pole
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: vahet pole

The US foreign policy resembles the Third Reich but the Soviet Union didn’t? Putie, if anyone resembled the Nazis it was your own former country. The Soviet-German nonagression pact, the gulags (which were just as bad as concentration camps), and Stalin killed more people than Hitler did. Look in the mirror, Putin.


50 posted on 05/10/2007 4:55:39 PM PDT by G8 Diplomat (The best way to punish a man is to elect him to Congress)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: weegee

Well it’s not like the old USSR had a stellar human rights record.

I believe it was Congressman Harry S. Truman who once opined that “we should arm whichever side seems to be losing”; in the hopes that they (nazis and communists) would kill each other off.


51 posted on 05/10/2007 5:59:51 PM PDT by Freedom4US
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: SauronOfMordor

I think you’ve got it. The article itself seems to have been made from whole cloth.


52 posted on 05/10/2007 6:02:46 PM PDT by Freedom4US
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: vahet pole

So who values Vladimir Putin’s opinion?


53 posted on 05/10/2007 6:12:16 PM PDT by Paperdoll
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MARKUSPRIME

The world becomes more dangerous too. NATO expands. The new military bases come to Russian borders. Russia has to adapt herself. Russian wisdom shows: “The best friends of Russia are her army, fleet and aviation”.


54 posted on 05/11/2007 4:11:46 AM PDT by RusIvan (The western MSM zombies the western publics.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies]

To: 1rudeboy
Pure politics because if Putin actually believed what he said then he simply is brutally ignorant which of course he is not. In fact, the statement is pretty much what Kennedy has been belching out over the last 7 years. Unfortunately, and unlike Putin, Kennedy’s ramblings stem simply from pure ignorance and stupidity.
55 posted on 05/11/2007 4:21:39 AM PDT by never4get
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: RusIvan
RusIvan, your profile page includes a very interesting read as to the history of the Soviet Union. While I will never appreciate what the Soviet Union stood for and represented, certainly, your writing detailing the history is very interesting. I like the fact that you can read such things being this website involves many people around the world much like yourself.

Spasiba, Uvidimsia!

56 posted on 05/11/2007 4:33:27 AM PDT by never4get
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 54 | View Replies]

To: Lukasz

Nice to see a lot of Polish folk signing up there.


57 posted on 05/11/2007 5:49:40 AM PDT by vader69
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: never4get
Don't be misled by his 101 on Russian history. I am not going to attempt to debunk anything he has written on his profile page except what concerns my country of origin.

He writes:

For example the praetorian guards of Bolsheviks who protected their government was Latvian Rifle Division. Few of Latvians was in highest positions in Bolshevik government. One Latvian was deputy of Felix Dzervinskii who in turn was pole by nationality and father founder and first head of CheKA then OGPU (the soviet secret police). Later their help in Bolshevik victory "paid off" when Stalin decided to bring their home countries (Baltic states) into Soviet Union. Considering that their own people helped Reds to take power one may say that they brought mishap on themselves.

This is totally twisted depiction of the history. To suggest that because some commie sympathizers were joining the Bolsheviks and infiltrating the local governments is a legitimate excuse for a 50 year Soviet occupation is ridiculous.

After the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact when Germany and Russia divided Poland and Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fell in the Soviet zone, the Soviets started pressuring Finland and the Baltic States to accept it's military forces in their soil. Reluctantly the Baltic States signed a "mutual assistance" package. Finland refused to sign it which in 1940 resulted in a Winter War where Soviet Union tried to invade Finland and ultimately was defeated.

In 1939 the Soviet Army occupied the Baltics and immediately started cleaning the countries from "anti-soviet" elements. A direct aggression against the Baltic States happened in June of 1940 when the rest of the world was busy watching Hitler parading around in Paris.

Soviet Union accused the Baltics of violating the terms of the mutual assistance pact and conspiracy.

Moscow with a help of a handful of local traitors organized a mock elections where all non-communist candidates were disqualified. The results were printed in the media a day before the polls even closed.

Now with the communists ruling the Parliament the "voluntary" entry to the Soviet Union was inevitable.

To say that the Baltics brought mishap on themselves is nothing but another insult from the supporters of the aggressors and occupiers.

58 posted on 05/11/2007 8:41:43 AM PDT by vader69
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies]

To: never4get; MARKUSPRIME; vahet pole; vader69; lizol; Grzegorz 246; twinself; vox_PL; Verdelet; ...
This is everything that one needs to know about Russians during WWII. :) Germans and Russians celebrate together victory over Poland.

Nazi-Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk

Well… you should read also about:

Vlasov army

Kaminski Brigade

59 posted on 05/11/2007 11:18:43 AM PDT by Lukasz
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 55 | View Replies]

To: Lukasz

great post


60 posted on 05/11/2007 6:04:42 PM PDT by spanalot
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 59 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-93 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson