Letter: Stop Russia's 'Little Hitler' while we can

Upon Putin's attack on Ukraine a year ago, he vacillated between "saving Ukraine from Nazism" and "saving the Russian Empire."

What he is not telling us is that his older "uncles" in the KGB (secret police) were in cahoots with Hitler and his Nazis, about destroying Poland in 1939. The Soviets and the Nazis each took half and killed anyone who were in their way: The Soviets killed tens of thousands of Polish officers and intellectuals in the Katyn Forest and the Nazis killed almost a million Jews in the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau.

Before that, in the 1920s the Soviet Dictator, Stalin, starved to death millions of Ukrainians because they did not willingly turn their farms over to the Communists.

So, this is the guy (Putin) who is going to clean up Ukraine of Nazis, the country that has probably not seen a Nazi since 1945.

Hitler had a propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, who blatantly stated that if you tell a lie often enough, people will come to believe it. How long will the Russian people and the wounded soldiers believe they are in Ukraine "to clean it from Nazis?"

Little Hitlers need to be stopped while they are little. It is much harder to stop the big Hitlers.

Peter Orum

St. Charles