Putin is carrying on in horrible image of Soviets
The Russians are up in arms because Britain has accused them of using illegal and dangerous poisons to carry out assassinations abroad.
Boris Johnson, our Foreign Secretary, has attracted their displeasure particularly because he compared the Russian state to Hitler’s Germany. Boris was right. The Soviet Union called itself communist, thereby attracting the admiration of millions of dissidents and left-wing idealists throughout the world, but it was actually just as much a totalitarian state as Nazi Germany and Stalin just as much a murderous dictator as Hitler.
Indeed, he starved and massacred more of his own people and others, such as the Poles, than ever Hitler did.
The Russian Communist Party referred to themselves as the Bolshevists, meaning they represented the majority of the Russian people, but when they came to power in a bloody coup they were actually in the minority, a small militant group but better organised and far more ruthless than the ruling parties they deposed.
Countless thousands died in the years following the Soviet Revolution.
In recent years Putin’s Russia has invaded the Ukraine and annexed part of her territory, carried out several assassinations of perceived enemies and interfered with the elections in other countries.
Now Putin has been returned to power in a rigged election, with opposition leaders imprisoned just to make sure of victory.
In World War II Churchill knew full well what kind of state the Soviet Union was but he welcomed the Russians as allies.
He said: “If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons”.
Russia under Putin bears an increasingly close similarity to Winston’s description of Stalin’s Soviet Union.
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