Why Putin uses World War II to justify Russia's war on Ukraine

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Vladimir Putin is painting his enemies in Ukraine as 'neo-Nazis', even though the country has a Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust. 9News

as "neo-Nazis", even though the country has a Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust and who heads a Western-backed, democratically elected government.Russia’s war in Ukraine

They say Russia has tried to magnify the Soviet role in defeating the Nazis while playing down any collaboration by Soviet citizens in the persecution of Jews. Nazi soldiers are seen here crossing a street in Vernolejinsk in the Southern Ukraine on Sept. 3, 1941 after the Russians had evacuated it. Note the burnt-out street cars in the centre of the road fired by the Russians in accordance with their 'Scorched Earth' policy before they left.

A closer view shows the smoke billowing from buildings close to Lviv airport on March 18, 2022 in Ukraine. That hasn't stopped Russian officials from comparing Zelenskyy to Jews who were forced to collaborate with the Nazis during the Holocaust. The law angered Israel, where many felt it was an attempt to whitewash the fact that some Poles did kill Jews during the German occupation during World War II.A German anti-tank artillery crew in a street of the Russian industrial city Kharkiv during Nazi occupation, Dec. 15, 1941 during World War II.

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