to claim. there is so much in sort of harkening back to not only the soviet past and the rallies that took part in the soviet union, this makes it doubly hypocritical. i'd use the word ironic had it not been so serious. so much of the style, so much of the substance of what putin's regime in russia now represents actually has echoes with naziism in germany in the 1930s. just a few days ago, mr. putin gave a speech on national television where we described his political opponents inside of russia, people like myself and my colleagues in the russian opposition, as quote, national traitors. this is a term directly borrowed from hitler in germany. this stylized that has been used by the kremlin propaganda as a symbol of support for this aggression on ukraine. really does look like a