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Putin’s Police Will Use Fear and WMD of Gulag.

Historians see the German reoccupation of the Rhineland in 1936 as the real beginning of World War II. The treaty that ended World War I, forced Germany to agree to keep troops out of the Rhineland (a German region on the French border).

Hitler made a deal with Stalin giving him Poland and putting Great Britain and France between a rock and a hard place. So, when he sent 32,000 troops and police all they could do was huff and puff but could do little else.

That was then this is now. Putin is annoyed with Poland and the Czech Republic for its alliance with the U. S. and installation of anti-missile radars and missiles. But, Putin is focused on Belarus, Ukraine, the Baltic States and a few of the Central Asian “stans” would be nice too. Would, or could, anyone stop him?

Hitler didn’t have nuclear weapons, nor was Germany the supplier of a quarter of Europe’s energy needs Putin does and is. Hitler also didn’t have the support of the German people for such military adventures, Putin does.

Plus, Putin is a practiced KGB operator. Russia still has a massive secret police apparatus to instill fear. That is important because absorbing the nations of the “near abroad” (as Russia calls its neighbors), would mean having to deal with a lot of dissidents.

That’s what the Gulag (the Russian acronym for the prison camp system, or “The Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Colonies”) was created for. Today, credit cards, cellular phones and massive computer banks make it easier to keep and eye on and track people. From there it is only a matter of rounding them up and hauling them to oblivion in the Gulag.

Make no mistake such abject fear induced by then Soviet secret police worked before and it can work again, and Putin is not timid. He fancies himself a combination of Marx, Lenin and Stalin on a crusade to resurrect the Soviet Empire with himself as its new Czar and he senses a coming terminal weakness in America - that would remove the only impediment to his aspirations.