"" Another “legitimate political discourse?”" Letter to the editor Misha Harnick

Hitler’s takeover of Sudetenland in 1938 presaged the start of WWII.  Russian crushing of the Hungarian revolution in 1956 was very violent and deadly, and resulted in hundreds of thousands emigrating. Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 to annihilate the “socialism with human face” movement was totally unanticipated.  We woke up in early hours and heard much too many planes…later, there was a Russian tank parked in the courtyard of the Charles University.  The invasion resulted in 20 years of “age of darkness” with cultural, intellectual and political devastation. . (I did not live through THAT; I emigrated in 1969 to the USA)   But there was no killing and no buildings were bombarded. Was Brezhnev more “civilized” than the current paranoid maniac?

Putin is a hypocritical barbarian: he wants to protect the “wayward” Ukraine from the West and bring it back to the “motherland”, yet he goes on a killing spree, and he is destroying most of the country. World opinion matters to him not, because, to his deranged mind, he is doing the right thing. 
What evil will happen where next?  Where will this lead the world?

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