When a government starts murdering its critics in the streets, it has crossed the line into barbarism. President Vladimir Putin of Russia is fond of accusing the administration in Ukraine of fascism. But it is the aggressive, self-pitying nationalism whipped up by Mr Putin — allied to the persecution and now murder of his domestic opponents — that is truly reminiscent of the politics of Russia and Germany in the 1930s.
當一個政府開始在街頭謀殺批評人士時,它就跨越了文明與野蠻的分界線。俄羅斯總統弗拉迪米爾•普丁(Vladimir Putin)動輒指責烏克蘭政府搞法西斯主義。但在普丁一手主導下興起的好鬥、自憐的民族主義,加上對其國內反對者的迫害、乃至如今的謀殺,才真正讓人聯想起上世紀30年代俄羅斯和德國的政治。
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