A couple of days ago, during a speech in Saint Petersburg, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin claimed his "Jewish friends" tell him the Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelensky "is not Jewish, that he is a disgrace to the Jewish people." Putin went on to claim "neo-Nazis, Hitler’s disciples, have been put on a pedestal as heroes of Ukraine.”
First of all, I don't believe Putin when he says he has friends, Jewish or otherwise. There are only people who are of use to him and those who are not.
Second, I believe Putin is taking a page from defeated, former President Trump and making this up out of whole cloth. It is reminiscent of when Putin's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov claimed in May 2022 that Hitler had "Jewish blood". Putin's words are intended to inflame. Nothing more, nothing less.
Third, it is rich for Putin to slam Hitler, Nazis and neo-Nazis when he is himself guilty of whitewashing Nazi atrocities against Jews. While Putin will tell people the Nazis killed Russians, he doesn't say it because they were Jewish. This is a form of Holocaust denial.
The only disgrace in this whole affair is Vladimir Putin and his invasion of Ukraine.
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