History Repeating

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Originally Posted by Professor S

Actually, I was thinking more German than Russian. Remember, Hitler was an elected official before becoming dictator.

Think about Hitler's run up into power. He took a people demoralized by the first world war and the bitter international sanctions and manipulated the situation to create a nationalistic frenzy centered on himself as the leader.

Actually Hitler was being an opportunistic power hungry person.

Putin isn't handing a resignation in and cornering a committee to put him as the head so they won't be disbanded. He's just considering making a new system of government in which he plays a vast role. And why wouldn't he? After all it is his idea. Who would think up a new government system in which they play no role at all? You need to keep a part, and have it be major to show you have confidence in your own idea. If you say "Well, I have this new plan. But you guys go ahead and run it" people will be weary from the start because the mind behind it doesn't appear to back it with the vision he may have had.

But at this point everything is heresy. Nobody knows what his intentions actually are. Maybe he just wants a truly United Russia? Comparing him to Hitler seems unfair, even considering who he is.

History is bound to repeat itself. To think every single event that will ever happen is new is just plain silly. Comparing the present day to pre-world war times is odd, because the world isn't nearly the same place it was 60, or 90 years ago.

If Putin starts genocide, segregation, and breaks all ties with the modern world, I'll buy you a coke.