THE [Russian] embassy has taken note of the article "Putin: His own worst enemy" (The Manila Times, October 29) by Hermenegildo C. Cruz who is obviously stuck in the paradigm of the Cold War and continues to give assessments of modern Russia based on his background as "a sovietologist." What is most outrageous and unacceptable is that he allows himself not for the first time to compare the Russian leadership with Hitler. Ridiculous parallels are drawn between the territorial and political expansion of Nazi Germany in the 1930s and the Russian leader nowadays, who allegedly "replicated Hitler's conduct." The author replicating himself the tendentious Western narrative does not hesitate to engage in a clear forgery of facts in support of this point of view. He accuses Putin of seizing South Ossetia from Georgia in 2008 and Crimea from Ukraine, intervening in the civil war in Syria and, of course, "invading" Ukraine, presenting to the reader a set of Western propaganda clichés without even trying to explain the essence of the events that took place in these territories and the real role of Russia in them.

I hope no need to remind that the territorial and political expansion of Nazi Germany was aimed at gaining world domination and, associated with this, the maximum expansion of the territory of Germany. The Nazi leadership justified this policy with the goal of gaining "living space" (Lebensraum) for ethnic Germans by depriving the conquered lands of sovereignty, harsh economic exploitation and the destruction of peoples. Any comparison of Nazi Germany with Russia, which sacrificed millions of lives in the fight against fascism, is unacceptable. Its goal is to create an image of the enemy, coming up with any, even the most absurd, reasons for this.

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