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Source: BBC
Tucker Carlson interview: Fact-checking Putin's 'nonsense' history
9 February 2024
By Ido Vock
BBC News
US talk show host Tucker Carlson's interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin began with a rambling half-hour lecture on the history of Russia and Ukraine.
Mr Carlson, frequently appearing bemused, listened as Mr Putin expounded at length about the origins of Russian statehood in the ninth century, Ukraine as an artificial state and Polish collaboration with Hitler.
It is familiar ground for Mr Putin, who infamously penned a 5000-word essay entitled "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians" in 2021, which foreshadowed the intellectual justification the Kremlin offered for its invasion of Ukraine less than a year later.
Historians say the litany of claims made by Mr Putin are nonsense - representing nothing more than a selective abuse of history to justify the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Regardless of the historical realities, none of Putin's assertions would form a legal justification for his invasion.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68255302
Eugene
(62,605 posts)Source: Ukrainska Pravda
Putin justifies Hitler's actions: The Poles were uncooperative. Poland expresses outrage
Ukrainska Pravda
Fri, February 9, 2024 at 11:11 AM EST·2 min read
Russian leader Vladimir Putin justified the Nazis' actions, saying that the Poles being "uncompromising" over the ownership of Gdańsk forced Adolf Hitler to start the war with Poland in 1939. Poland is outraged by these claims.
Source: Vladimir Putin in an interview with US propagandist Tucker Carlson, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski on Twitter
Quote from Putin: "After [WWII] this territory was transferred to Poland, and instead of Danzig, a city of Gdańsk emerged. Hitler asked them [the Poles] to give it up amicably, but they refused...
[The Poles] went too far, pushing Hitler to start World War II by attacking them. Why was it Poland against whom the war started on 1 September 1939? Poland turned out to be uncompromising, and Hitler had nothing to do but start implementing his plans with Poland."
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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/putin-justifies-hitlers-actions-poles-161157911.html
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Source: Newsweek
Fact Check: Putin Defends Hitler's Invasion of Poland in Carlson Interview
Published Feb 09, 2024 at 11:10 AM EST
Updated Feb 09, 2024 at 12:46 PM EST
Tucker Carlson's interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, posted online on Thursday, began with a 30-minute history lesson from the Moscow leader, who made broad claims about Russia's historical claim to Ukraine.
The controversial interview in Moscow, released on Thursday, sparked a wave of mockery as Putin lectured Carlson, talking through Russian history from the 9th century to the present day.
Some commentators alleged that while talking through the Soviet campaign in World War II, Putin claimed that Adolf Hitler had been "forced" to invade Poland in 1939.
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There are multiple translations of this part of the conversation, most of which do not use the word "forced" but impart a similar meaning.
The voiceover translation provided by Carlson's Network states that Poland "went too far pushing Hitler to start World War II by attacking them," adding "Poland turned out to be uncompromising and Hitler had nothing to do but start implementing his plans with Poland."
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Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-putin-defends-hitlers-invasion-poland-carlson-interview-1868582
DinahMoeHum
(22,375 posts)Not since George Galloway went to Baghdad and hailed the indefatigability of Saddam Hussein have we seen such a display of bum-sucking servility to a tyrant.
Much more at the above link, and this is not the first time an American journalist has fawned over a dictator:
The chosen journalist was a German-American called Von Wiegand, who had already conducted several positive interviews with the Fuhrer.
The parallels are chilling.