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Ukraine war - the evil that men do
How does one explain Hitler and evil? Even if we can’t, what’s more important is we do not look away and fail to respond.
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A protester with a sign depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin as Adolf Hitler in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on April 9, 2022.
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Adolf Hitler and Nazism - after all these years - have remained morally instructive and perhaps even more so now.
One of Russian President Vladimir Putin's strangest justifications for the invasion of Ukraine - or the "special military operation" as he described it - is saving innocent civilians by "de-Nazifying" the country and toppling the government in Kyiv, which he claims has been seized by "extreme nationalists and neo-Nazis", even though Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is Jewish and had relatives who perished in the Holocaust.
