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With his violent nationalism and anti-Semitic rhetoric, Zhirinovsky seems the perfect Hitler figure for a possible takeover. Even Zhirinovsky's autobiography The Last Thrust to the South has been likened to Mein Kampf by members of the Library of Congress...
...Vladimir Zhirinovsky is no Adolf Hitler, and the current Russian republic is no Weimar. Russia is not the pariah among nations that post-World War I Germany was; there are no Western Allied powers lording over a defeated Russia. True, Russia has suffered economic hardship, but not to the point of 400% inflation in four years (1929-1933) such as in Germany. Moreover, the Western powers are well-armed, prepared and even interventionist these days (as opposed to the way we were under the Monroe Doctrine-influenced isolationism of the 1930s...
More importantly, Zhirinovsky really has not posed a threat to the same degree as Hitler or Mussolini, or Stalin for that matter. Zhirinovsky likes to complain and publicly denounce democratic reforms and institution, but he offers the people no viable alternative solutions, merely an attitude of "I'll deal with it later." He enjoys the bawdy, aggressive style of politics, but he hasn't been able to firmly establish his odious cult of personality...
Kozyrev: Talk with ((Vladimir)) Zhirinovsky and with ((Communist Party leader Gennadi)) Zyuganov. Zyuganov drew a parallel between the Partnership for Peace and Hitler's Barbarossa plan for invading Russia! That is their mentality. The alternative is clear. Their scenario is Yugoslavia: use force to crack down on republics and re-establish the empire or whatever you chose to call...
Fifty years after Hitler's fall, war crimes are being committed in the Balkans on a level reminiscent of Nazi Germany. Governments and private organizations have compiled detailed documentary and eyewitness evidence of at least 5,000 specific cases, along with lists of 3,500 named individuals allegedly responsible for committing the crimes...