Putin will do the same as Hitler or it'll be the end of him?
As "The Telegraph" recalls in its text, in the summer of 1934, Hitler ordered the assassination of the leaders of the SA, a Nazi private militia that had gotten out of control and threatened his power.
The apparent killing of Maxim Fomin, aka Vladlen Tartarsky - a vocal pro-war critic of the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine and a supporter of Wagner's mercenary group - was interpreted by some as a "shot" at Wagner's leader Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Prigozhin is sometimes talked about as a potential successor to Putin and has frequently crossed paths with Putin's inner circle in recent months, publicly alleging incompetence and even accusing Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu of treason.
This seems to have upset Putin as well as the military leadership to such an extent that the military has been accused of deliberately and needlessly wasting the lives of Wagner's mercenaries and depriving them of ammunition in order to clip their wings and even get rid of them, according to "The Telegraph".
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Night of the Long Knives - Hitler's purge of the unruly Assault Squads
"Night of the Long Knives" is the name given to a series of political murders committed in Nazi Germany between June 30 and July 2, 1934.
The Nazi regime executed at least 85 people for political reasons. Many of those killed were members of the Assault Squads (SA), a Nazi paramilitary organization. Adolf Hitler turned against the SA and its leader Ernst Rhm because he saw that the independent action of the SA and the tendency of its members to street violence harmed his reputation and popularity.
Hitler also wanted to forestall any move by the leaders of the Reichswehr, the German military, who were hostile to the SA, aimed at...
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