[Aaus-list] [Ukrainians For Obama] PUTIN SPELLS OUT HIS POLICY

Wed Mar 19 16:20:59 EDT 2014

Also worth wacthing for compare and contrast purposes 
HITLER'S 1938 SPEECH ON THE SEIZURE OF THE SUDETENLAND

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGm4P0Ezq2I

ECHOES OF HITLER'S 1938 SPEECH ON THE SEIZURE OF THE SUDETENLAND

Adolf Hitler made a spookily similar speech to Putin when he seized the Sudetenland, making similar references to common themes

The uncompromising autocrat got to his feet and made a bombastic speech as he seized a part of a neighbouring state dominated by his own countrymen.
It came in the midst of a referendum condemned by other powers as a sham, with voters intimidated by the autocrat’s looming tanks. 

The move was greeted with delirious pleasure by his own citizens but seen as a portent of international strife by other Western countries.
The despot in question is not Vladimir Putin but Adolf Hitler. The occasion was not the annexation of Crimea but the Nazi  seizure of the Sudetenland, the German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia.
Putin, who spoke to the Russian parliament yesterday, appears to have stolen many of the themes of his speech from the Fuhrer’s address to the Reichstag as he seized the Sudetenland in October 1938.
Putin said Crimea had always been Russian: ‘In people’s hearts and minds, Crimea has always been an integral part of Russia.’
Hitler said of the Sudetenland: ‘The  Sudeten German population was and is a German.’ Putin insisted he would fight for Russians everywhere. 

Hitler’s imagery was also emotive. ‘More than 1,000,000 people of German blood had in the years 1919-1920 to leave their homeland.’ 

Putin criticised Western nations, and  Hitler complained that his efforts to reach out to the West were rebuffed.
Putin said Russia would retaliate against Western sanctions.
Hitler said: ‘As a National Socialist, I am accustomed to strike back at an attacker.’ 

Putin claimed he would not invade other parts of Eastern Ukraine if Russia was allowed to exercise influence: ‘Don’t believe those who try to frighten you with Russia and who scream that other (Ukrainian) regions will follow after Crimea. We do not want a partition of Ukraine.’ 
Hitler also claimed that his ambitions would stop at the Sudetenland. ‘I have declared that the frontier between France and Germany is a final one. 

Germany has no interests in the West.’ Five months later, he invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia; 14 months after that, he invaded France.

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 full english simultaneously translated here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDLwu4E35us

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Does anyone know if the printed text of Putin's speech (in Russian or English) is available online?

On 3/19/14, Bohdan Besaha  <besaha1 at gmail.com> wrote:

It's important to mention that Putin caveated his assurance that he would not seek further Ukrainian territories with concern for the Russian speakers in Donetsk and Kharkiv.  I'm tired of pretending that he is not spelling out his next moves just because the media does not catch it or whatever it is that keeps people from wanting to face up to the immediate danger.
I'm not happy to write this kind of thing, but I am nauseated with the wait and see what he does nonsense, when he is telling you what he plans to do.  

Marta Farion <marta at farion.org> wrote:

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/0ac21512-aec3-11e3-a088-00144feab7de.html siteedition=intl#axzz2wNhSOTaF

Crimea’s annexation used to warn world of resurgent Russia
By Kathrin Hille in Moscow
©AFP
Russian President Vladimir Putin used the annexation of Crimea and Sevastopolon Tuesday to warn the world of a resurgent Russia that will assert its interests and whip up a wave of patriotic sentiment at home.
In anhour-long addressto both chambers of parliament, regional leaders and the loyal parts of the country’s political elite in the Kremlin’s ornate Georgiyevsky Hall, Mr Putin said Russia had been “cornered for centuries”, but could now not be bullied any more.
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“It was only when Crimea ended up as part of a different country that Russia realised that it was not simply robbed, it was plundered,” Mr Putin said. He said the break-up of the Soviet Union had left Russia one of the biggest, if not the biggest nation, to be divided by borders.
But beyond the fallout of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Mr Putin pinpointed anger at the west, and particularly the US, to explain what drove him on the course he took on Ukraine.
“What happened in Ukraine reflects the situation that unfolded in the entire world: After the bipolar world broke down, [the] US decided to use strong-arm politics. They think they have been entrusted by God,” Mr Putin railed. “But if you press the spring too hard, it will recoil. Russia, just like any other country, has its national interests which you need to respect.”
Mr Putin spelt out in concrete terms that at the heart of these interests was keeping Nato at bay. Although he pledged the will to live in peaceful, brotherly relations with Ukraine and that Russia would not grab other territories, he warned that Nato must not come closer to Russia.
While the Russian president’s tough tone shocked manyobservers abroad, it is likely to boost his popularity at home. Mr Putin faces steep challenges ahead of the next presidential election in 2018 as the Russian economy slowed sharply last year and is expected by independent analysts to move into recession this quarter.
But in step with Moscow’s drive to escalate the crisis in Ukraine in recent weeks, Mr Putin’s support ratings have risen to levels around 70 per cent, a level not seen during all of his third term in office.
At an unannounced appearance at a celebratory rally on Red Square on Tuesday night, he sang the national anthem, ringed by a navy choir, and shouted: “We have a very joyful, bright, celebratory day today. After a hard, long, exhausting voyage, Crimea and Sevastopolare returning into the haven of the motherland, to their native shores, to the home port, to Russia!”
A moderator led a crowd of thousands in shouts of “Crimea, Russia, Putin!” It was the first time Mr Putin appeared at such an event since a rally to celebrate his controversial return to the presidential office in May 2012, which marked victory over a growing protest movement.
Alexander Zaldostanov, head of the biker gang Night Wolves and one of the many prominent Russians who have been fanning Russian nationalism in Ukraine in recent weeks, took to the stage to celebrate Sevastopol as “the Stalingrad of the 21st century”.
if you press the spring too hard, it will recoil. Russia, just like any other country, has its national interests which you need to respect
- Vladimir Putin
Not all Russians share the joy. Liberal intellectuals are worried that the patriotic euphoria whipped up over the return of Crimea is providing the cover for an even tougher crackdown on dissent.
When Mr Putin dismissed western criticism of his moves on Ukraine, many Russians detected a threatening undertone.
“Some western politicians are already trying to scare us not only with sanctions but also with the perspective of worsening domestic problems,” he said. “I would like to know what they have in mind – acts by a certain fifth column, some national traitors? Or do they think that they can worsen the social-economic situation in Russia and thus provoke the people’s discontent? We consider such statements as irresponsible and will respond in an appropriate manner.”
Following Mr Putin’s speech, several internet sites used by activists were temporarily blocked. Residents of different districts of Moscow reported on their blogs on Tuesday that the management companies of their apartment blocks had demanded they hang flags from their windows in celebration, and bristled when refused.

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