But Putin’s implied argument that in Ukraine he is refighting WWII, with Russia once again rescuing Jews and the world from nationalist pogromists and their European (read: German/ Nazi) sponsors is simply not credible. On the contrary, his justification for seizing and occupying Crimea – the need to defend ethnic kin from a nonexistent threat – was precisely Hitler’s justification for annexing the Sudetenland.
但普京的隐含意思——他正在乌克兰重打二战，俄罗斯将再次拯救犹太人和世界于民族主义迫害者及其欧洲（读作：德国/纳粹）赞助人之手——是决不可信的。相反，他为侵略和占领克里米亚的辩护——为了救民族同胞于子虚乌有的威胁——与希特勒吞并苏台德地区的借口如出一辙。