President Volodymyr Zelenskiy broadened his battle against graft on Friday, firing all the heads of Ukraine's regional army recruitment centres as the war with Russia enters a critical stage.
Tell me one thing Hitlers regime did that Putins regime hasn't done one a smaller scale. I'll start with the only thing I am not aware of Putins regime having done: medical experiments on prisoners (although I personally think "punitive psychiatry" is close enough).
Things everyone knows:
baseless aggression against most neighbors; check
a history of genocidal warfare: check (ask Chechens)
their own Direlewanger Sturm Brigade made from convicts: check (Sturm Z)
propagandists openly agitating for genocide (burning or drowning Ukrainian kids): check (as I said I have followed both sides)
forced removal of children (also falls under genocide): check
denying people to speak their own language and punishing them for it (also falls under genocide): check
terror bombing cities with no military value like Germans during the blitz: check
breaking agreements (like the Budapest Memorandum): check
killing prisoners en masse: check (although thankfully Putler doesn't have the logistical evil geniuses from Endlösung working for him)
razing cities to the ground like Warszaw and preventing the population from fleeing: check (see Mariupol)
I even have two more that I am not aware of the Nazis doing:
blatantly breaking their own cease fires to shell agreed upon evacuation corridors for both civilians and unarmed military personnel
openly arguing for and taking practical steps to use hunger in the third world for their own political advantage.
I hope this should be enough to convince everyone except for the dumbest of the dumbest that Russians are almost just like (thankfully) dumb Nazis with less stylish uniforms.
So easy to beat someone when you leave out half the sentence:
I wrote "Tell me one thing Hitlers regime did that Putins regime hasn't done on a smaller scale".
And yes, Putin hasn't done the holocaust, because they thankfully aren't well enough organized to do that.
The rhetoric is there as I already mentioned. The smaller scale "disappearances" of civilians Nacht und Nebel style and experiments on larger scale exterminations like Olevnika are there.
Word plays won't get you anywhere.
And if it it racist to point out that Putins regime is evil but thankfully dumb then so be it.
Someone would probably tried to arrest me for hate speak against the nazis too.