On February 24, 2022, history changed when Russia invaded Ukraine. Many compare Russia’s and Putin’s strategy to Hitler’s Germany during World War II. Stefan Hedlund, who is a professor of eastern state research, believes that there are similarities.
– The main similarity is that it is a war of extermination on the Russian side. Putin and his men are now completely obsessed with Ukraine ceasing to exist as a state, he says.
Bizarre concept
In the Russian media there is talk of the need to exterminate upwards of two million people who refuse to say they are Russian. Concepts such as extermination, he believes, are recognizable from the rhetoric of Hitler’s Germany:
– It is bizarre when you hear Russia speak of the Jewish president in the government of Ukraine as a Nazi.