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You are correct! Luckily she didn't read my post or my borscht portions would be reduced 😉. By the bye... you should have written "...not that keen on YOUR saying 'the' Ukraine..." because it's a gerund ('your' NOT 'you' please 😘). In fact, correct use of the gerund requires its own frigging thread!

Still not quite sure what you mean? Plenty of Ukrainians died under Stalin. It's dangerous I feel to compare these things directly: Stalin, Hitler, Putin etc. Ukraine and Russia have a common history, still feel like brothers (who are fighting), but my wife feels that most Ukrainians will also...

I agree. My wife is from the Ukraine, no fan of Putin, no fan of their invasion of Crimea [or of Eastern Ukraine], no fan of the Russian elite, and she is horrified that Hitler has been mentioned in comparison to Putin/Russia. "well, that comment about Hitler has crossed a line, and that's the...

Yes, absolutely, he did. But it does worry me that he agreed so readily. It's the usual Boris 'oh, this could be a funny thing to say, a good sound bite'... I do think he could have disagreed with the MP's precise words, and got his point across in a more statesmanlike way.