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NANCY PELOSI COMPARES PUTIN'S INVASION OF UKRAINE TO HITLER'S INVASION OF
CZECHOSLOVAKIA BEFORE WORLD WAR II

Bryan Metzger , Brent D. Griffiths , and John Haltiwanger
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at a press conference on Capitol Hill on February 23,
2022. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
 * Nancy Pelosi called Putin's invasion of Ukraine an "evil move" and compared
   his actions to those of Hitler.
 * "This is the Sudetenland," said Pelosi, referring to a region of
   Czechoslovakia that Hitler invaded before WWII.
 * Hitler annexed the Sudetenland in 1938, claiming to be protecting
   German-speaking citizens.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi forcefully condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin
on Wednesday, calling his invasion of Ukraine "a very evil move" before
implicitly comparing him to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

"Many of us have visited Ukraine and have seen that they love democracy," Pelosi
told reporters at her weekly press conference following her return from several
countries overseas, including the United Kingdom and Germany. "They do not want
to live under Vladimir Putin. He does not want the Russian people to see what
democracy looks like. And therefore he wants to bring them under his domain."

Pelosi also made the case that Putin, by virtue of his background as a Russian
intelligence officer, is particularly skilled at deceiving his own citizens.

"Putin is a master of KGB, KGB, KGB, KGB," Pelosi said, pounding the podium.
"His orientation is misrepresentation, and he's effective at that, unless we
inoculate against it, unless we make a case against it so that the Russian
people know the truth."




She then went on to compare Putin's recognition of the breakaway republics of
Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine — two thirds of which are still
controlled by Ukraine — to Hitler's annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938 and
invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1939.

"This is a very evil move on the part of Vladimir Putin," she declared. "He's a
KGB guy who happens to be probably the richest man in the world because of his
exploitation of his own people that he doesn't want them to know about."

"This, my friends, is our moment," she added. "This is the Sudetenland, that's
what people were saying there. You cannot ignore what Putin is doing."

She added that Putin's invasion is a "total assault on democracy."






'APPEASEMENT'

The Sudetenland is an area that was populated primarily by German speakers in
Czechoslovakia (now broken up into Czechia and Slovakia). 

After assuming power in 1933, Hitler threatened to spark a new war in Europe by
demanding that the Sudetenland be ceded to Germany — largely on the basis of the
fact it was populated by ethnic Germans. European powers eventually gave into
Hitler's demands via the Munich Agreement in 1938, in what would ultimately be a
failed bid to prevent another conflict from consuming the continent. The
European leaders involved in the Munich discussions — particularly British Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain — were accused of appeasement, and of being fooled
by Hitler. 

Nazi Germany would go on to invade the rest of Czechoslovakia in March 1939,
just months before the onset of World War II.

As he moved to recognize two separatist territories in eastern Ukraine as
independent on Monday, Putin made references to the historical and ethnic
connections between Ukraine and Russia. He rewrote history in the process, and
effectively suggested that Ukraine is not a country. "Modern Ukraine was
entirely created by Russia," Putin said. 




In remarks at the Munich Security Conference over the weekend, Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky alluded to the 1938 Munich crisis and the
Sudetenland.

Zelensky suggested that Western leaders had engaged in "appeasement" in the face
of Russian aggression toward Ukraine. "Has the world forgotten its mistakes of
the 20th century?" Zelensky asked. "Where does appeasement policy usually lead
to?"

Russia in 2014 invaded and annexed Crimea, and has since supported rebels in a
war against Ukrainian forces in the eastern Donbas region. Ukraine has been
heavily reliant on Western aid during that timeframe. NATO countries have
provided Ukraine with military assistance, including lethal aid. Meanwhile, NATO
has stalled conversations on allowing Ukraine to join.

Though Ukraine is nowhere close to becoming a NATO member, its ambitions of
joining the alliance are at the heart of the recent crisis with Russia. Moscow
has demanded that Ukraine be permanently banned from NATO. But the alliance and
Washington have repeatedly said that this demand is a non-starter. 




In addition to recognizing separatist territories as independent, Russia on
Monday said so-called "peacekeepers" would be sent into eastern Ukraine.
President Joe Biden said this constitutes the "beginning of an invasion," while
warning that Russia appeared poised to seize more Ukrainian territory by force. 

 

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