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Putin warns of threats to peace

Vladimir Radyuhin

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin compared modern-day attempts to assert "exceptionalism and diktat" to the ideology of Hitler's Third Reich which triggered World War II.

Speaking at a military parade in Moscow's Red Square to commemorate the 62nd anniversary of the Soviet army victory in the war on May 9, he said threats to peace today were as many as they were at the time of Hitler's Germany.

"As in the Third Reich, these new threats arise from the same contempt for human life, the same claims of exceptionalism and diktat in the world," Mr. Putin warned.

The military parade featured 7,000 soldiers marching on the Red Square and nine jet fighters roaring overhead. This year's Victory Day celebrations took place against the backdrop of a bitter row between Russia and the former Soviet republic of Estonia over the removal of a Red Army monument from the centre of its capital, Tallinn, on the very eve of the V-Day.

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