Putin May Be Aware That History Is on His Side
Just about all that’s missing from the Russian invasion of Georgia is a Gleiwitz Incident. Perhaps Russian leader Vladimir Putin thought that would have been going a bit too far. A Gleiwitz II might make the situation sink in even to those idiot Westerners, after all. The original Gleiwitz Incident occurred on the night of Aug. 31, 1939. During the wee hours, a radio station at Gleiwitz, Germany, was taken over by men dressed in Polish army uniforms. They used the station to broadcast an anti-German message. Then they left. When German troops “re-took” the station, they found the body of one of the men who had been there. He was dead, apparently after having been shot during a struggle for the station. The next day, Adolf Hitler sent his Blitzkreig roaring into Poland, because of the “provocation.” World War II began. But all was not as it seemed to the world. The radio station had been “seized” by German operatives dressed as Poles. The body was that of an unlucky concentration camp inmate. He was killed by lethal injection, then shot. The Germans’ theory was that a dead “Polish” body left behind would make the operation more convincing. It was all staged in order to provide Hitler with the excuse he needed to invade Poland. Putin, an old KGB hand, may have decided that a Gleiwitz II would take the parallels between his behavior and that of Hitler too far. There already are plenty of them. Hitler invaded Austria on the pretext of protecting ethic Germans there.
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