Putin Turns Towards Fascism

Act Now or Risk the Consequences of Delay

Shankar Narayan
9 min readNov 29, 2023

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A Group of Security Services Men (Licensed Image)

“What does sovereignty mean for our state, for each family, and for each person? What is its value and true essence?, Russian President Vladimir Putin asked yesterday at the World Russian People’s Council.

Certainly, the answer to that question is known only to him. The father of Russia then took the time to clarify it for us all.

“Primarily, it is freedom. Freedom for Russia and our people and, therefore, for each one of us, because in our tradition, a person cannot feel free unless his loved ones, his children and his Fatherland are free. Our soldiers and officers, men and women of our country, are defending this genuine freedom.”

While reading the transcript of Vladimir Putin’s speech, my mind kept drawing parallels to Hitler’s address in Nuremberg.

Just listen to Hitler’s words, you will pick up the parallels.

“A movement today in Germany that fights for the renewal of the people must give its own symbol to this effort, and that is why we have chosen a new flag that is the symbol of the coming new German Reich: a symbol of national strength and power joined with the purity of the blood.

Our goal is for this flag to increasingly lose its character as a party flag and grow…

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Shankar Narayan

He didn't care what he had or what he had left, he cared only about what he must do.