History, Karl Marx said, repeats -- first as tragedy, then as farce. With the ongoing political crisis in Ukraine bringing the West and Russia closer to conflict than they’ve been at any time since the end of the Cold War, pundits have been playing fast and loose with historical analogies, painting Moscow in the harshest possible light. Russian
Tragedy And Farce: How The West Lost Post-Soviet Russia
Analogies comparing Putin to Hitler miss the mark and conveniently omit the West’s hand in creating the current state of affairs.