's decision to recognise two breakaway republics in eastern has dangerous parallels to Adolf Hitler's actions before the Second World War.
Prior to the outbreak of WWII, an expansionist Hitler demanded self-determination for all German-speaking peoples living in the Sudetenland - asserting that they should no longer be part of Czechoslovakia and Austria.
Meanwhile, Putin - who is widely seen as intent on restoring his country's former empire - on Monday recognised the Russian-speaking regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine as independent states.
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