RÚSSIA VIII - RUTHENIA VIII - RUSSIA VIII

«Now if this sounds familiar, it’s what Hitler did back in the 30s, (...) All the Germans that were ... the ethnic Germans, the Germans by ancestry who were in places like Czechoslovakia and Romania and other places, Hitler kept saying they’re not being treated right. I must go and protect my people and that’s what’s gotten everybody so nervous.» Hillary Clinton (http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/general-news/20140304/hillary-clinton-compares-vladimir-putins-actions-in-ukraine-to-adolf-hitlers-in-nazi-germany?)

«When he looks at Ukraine, he sees a place that he believes is by its very nature part of Mother Russia. (...) who believes his mission is to restore Russian greatness»
«So everybody is hoping that there will be a negotiation but a negotiation that respects Ukraine and doesn’t ratify a reoccupation by Russia of Crimea,” she said. “So it’s a real nail-biter, right now, but nobody wants to up the rhetoric. Everybody wants to cool it in order to find a diplomatic solution and that’s what we should be trying to do.»
Hillary Clinton (http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/general-news/20140304/hillary-clinton-compares-vladimir-putins-actions-in-ukraine-to-adolf-hitlers-in-nazi-germany?)

«What I said (...) is that the claims by President Putin and other Russians that they had to go into the Crimea and maybe further into Eastern Ukraine because they had to protect the Russian minorities, that is reminiscent of claims that were made back in the 1930s when Germany under the Nazis kept talking about how they had to protect German minorities in Poland, Czechoslovakia and elsewhere (...)


I just want everybody to have a little historic perspective. I’m not making a comparison, certainly, but I am recommending that we perhaps can learn from this tactic that has been used before.» Hilary Clinton (http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/article/20140305/NEWS/140309770?source=jBarPopUp)