The elderly Ukrainian woman on the park bench bemoaning the criminal death and destruction around her could have been Vladimir Putin’s mother in Leningrad.That was when the Nazis in World War II surrounded, bombarded and strangled Leningrad, the way the Russians are doing today to Mariupol and other Ukrainian cities. By the time the Nazi siege ended, some 800,000 innocent men, women and children had been killed by Hitler’s bombs or died from starvation and disease. Leningrad was rubble. One of the dead was Viktor Putin, Vladimir Putin’s 2-year-old brother, whom he never met. (Vladimir Putin was born in 1952.) Putin’s mother, Maria Ivanova Putin, who nearly died of starvation, had taken the boy to a children’s shelter for safety. Putin’s father, Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin, was in a military hospital recovering from wounds suffered fighting the Nazis. Viktor contracted diphtheria at the shelter and died in his mother’s arms, like so many other Leningrad children. To this day, Putin does not know where his brother is buried. Hitler’s criminality made mass graves common in Leningrad, just as Putin is doing in Ukraine. Nobody knows what Maria Ivanova Putin did or said upon Viktor’s death, or what the other mothers said about Hitler, the man who caused the deaths of so many of their children in Leningrad and elsewhere. But you can imagine that it was like, what that grandmotherly looking woman crying on the park bench said to CNN as she viewed the dead bodies of innocent women and children killed by Putin’s bombs in Sloviansk in the Donbas region of Ukraine. She said to reporter Clarissa Ward, “Why can’t they stop this one idiot? If they send me, I will shoot him.” What people said about Hitler back then is what they are saying about Putin today. Putin has become Hitler. He is doing to Ukraine — killing innocent women and children — what the Nazis did to the Russians in Leningrad.
via boston herald: Lucas: Putin’s atrocities in Ukraine akin to Nazi siege of Leningrad