Word: reich
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...part, has been at pains to improve its image abroad, hiring U.S. and British public-relations consultants to help. Yet the country has grown increasingly pugnacious, picking serial fights with Western powers. Putin has recently appeared to draw parallels between U.S. interventionism and the aggression of the Third Reich, threatened to train missiles on Europe if America sited its planned missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, and this month suspended Russian participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty, which places limits on the heavy weaponry deployed on the Continent...
...These new threats-as during the time of the Third Reich-are the same contempt for human life and the same claims of exceptionality and diktat in the world.' VLADIMIR PUTIN, President of Russia, in a speech that prompted some to say he was likening U.S. policy to that of Nazi Germany. The Kremlin said he was referring to violent extremism...
...These new threats--as during the time of the Third Reich--are the same contempt for human life and the same claims of exceptionality and diktat in the world...
VLADIMIR PUTIN, President of Russia, obliquely likening U.S. foreign policy to that of the Third Reich...
...Even the Spartans' nobility is homoneurotic. They rhapsodize about "a beautiful death," and figure in military hagiography somewhere between Wagner's Siegfried and the Third Reich's S.S. (I mean that in a nice way.) "It's an honor to die at you side,"one officer says toward the end to Leonidas, who replies, "It's an honor to have lived at yours." If this movie dialogue were between a man and a woman, I guarantee the audience would spill their popcorn in giggle fits. But the crowd I saw 300 with suffered all this strained seriousness in respectful silence...