没有收声的勇敢的俄罗斯民主派已经指出，普京在吞并克里米亚时所抛出的诉求与希特勒在1938年德奥合并和苏台德危机中的立场并无区别。
Brave Russian democrats who have not yet been silenced have already remarked on the similarity between Putin’s appeal to ethnic solidarity in annexing Crimea and Hitler’s stance during the Anschluss and the Sudeten crisis in 1938.