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Boris Johnson has predicted Vladimir Putin will revel in the World Cup in Russia this summer in the same way that Adolf Hitler did in the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936, and suggested the UK may advise English football fans to avoid travelling to the tournament for their own safety. - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/mar/21/boris-johnson-compares-russian-world-cup-to-hitlers-1936-olympics
He should be sacked for saying this. Has he no knowledge of Russia's sacrifice? If he's that concerned, why is he not calling for a boycott of the tournament?
He should be sacked for saying this. Has he no knowledge of Russia's sacrifice? If he's that concerned, why is he not calling for a boycott of the tournament?
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It's ok. Putin is white. Therefore it can't be a hate crime.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
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He,s right Russia along with Germany started WW2
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Injera you may as well say do you not know the sacrifices that Germany and the German people made
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There,s no point England boycotting the tournament alone, although they should
They will get no support from muzzi or macroni |
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They shouldn't boycott the tournament. Football should be about the people. We all know the Russia government is corrupt. A throwback to the birth of communism and left wing ideology. Wouldn't surprise me if English fans were more at risk in South Africa and Brazil.
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Boris is a feckin disgrace & should be sacked with immediate effect. Will he be? Nae chance
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The tournament in Russia should be cancelled and held in England, without Putin
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Don't invite the little rodent
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England haven't turned up to the last 6 world cups. I doubt they'll turn up to this one.
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neither have Russia
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Will they produce a Bobby Moore?
no, only England could produce a Bobby Moore, nowhere else |
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Boris = Idiot,erm that's it.
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Boris is a disgrace....given 26 million Russians died fighting Hitler, you can just imagine what the Russian people think of us Brits. Boris is a scandal beyond description. He is vile, over privileged fool....vile, pompous idiot. A vile cretin who is not fit for public office.
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Ah but they were fighting for the murderer Stalin, and indeed Stalin killed tens of millions.
Well the Russian generals also killed thousands of their own people And of course it was Stalin and Hitler who started the war, indeed Russia took a larger part of Poland than Germany did So put that into the equation |
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I thought the responsibility of high office would put an end to the comedy from Boris.
If this is anything to go by he doesn't take any position seriously. |
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He,s not the worst
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Of course we don't need to look to carefully at the contribution Russia made in WW2 Russia sat back like a big fat toad for a large part of the war while it was helped to survive by the western allies, it didn't have to fight in Europe, or in the pacific or in Africa or in the far and middle east or in the skies or at sea over4 all these areas , it had only to worry about itself
And then emerge once the war was all but won |
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Why he was ever given the F.O. I'll never know. The most diplomatic position to hold and May gives it Boris.
He even said he worries about the England fans' safety. Then how is comparing Putin to Hitler going to help??? |
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Boris is pretty useless and a bit of a clown in fairness, but have you listened to the Russians if other countries can be like that so can Britain
If they are rude we can be rude also, whats wrong with that? its good for them |
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What has Russias sacrifice got to do with this. Johnson was attacking Putin NOT the Russian people.
What a dumb thread. |
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well he is Russian, and they elected him
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They don't have a very good record of electing leaders, I blame them for that at least
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UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson's likening of Russia's World Cup to Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics has been branded "totally irresponsible" by the Russian ambassador in London.
Alexander Yakovenko said "nobody had the right" to compare Russia - which lost 25 million lives in World War Two - with Nazi Germany. Speaking at the Russian Embassy in London on Thursday Mr Yakovenko said Moscow considered the foreign secretary's comments "unacceptable and totally irresponsible". "The British government is free to make a decision about its participation in the World Cup," he said. "But nobody has the right to insult the Russian people - who defeated Nazism and lost most than 25 million people - by comparing our country to Nazi Germany. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43503225 |
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complete nonsense from the Russians as usual in fairness it was probably worse before the 1980 Olympics, there were thousands in the gulags then, not sure how many now
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The world cup wouldn't be the same without England, he knows that.
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Might have been better after all if we hadn't qualified
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Boris seems unable to think things through before speaking or if he does his logic is flawed.
Don't disagree with him attacking Putin but not in the way he did. Russians think of Hitler much in the same way we do. |
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Whats the big deal its only what everyone is thinking.
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Wasn't it some Labour mp who made the comparison?and Boris just agreed.
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Heard a clip of this on the news, he was asked about it and off the cuff agreed.
I wonder how many russians died when they invaded Poland from the East when the Germans were fighting the Poles in the west, as Russians fulfilled the pact they had agreed beforehand to divide up Poland with Germany? I wonder how many allies died due to resource Stalin was sending in huge numbers to support the Axis war machine before his friend Hitler turned on him? |
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*resources plural
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Its possible the two Russians , the man and his daughter will not survive
When they were in the shopping centre sitting beside each other their eyes were white and they had lost control of their bodily functions A very cruel thing. |
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Now it may surprise some on here but I'm not a lefty, luvee Corbynista but I like many on here who have leanings to the right of centre am appalled at his comments. The Russians paid a very heavy price during the Second World War and did as much as any other country to defeat the Nazis not that any of our war films dipict that. I fully support our governments stance but this episode is fast becoming a pathetic infant school name calling exercise with dangerous consequences
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Lfc once the life support machines are turned off, sadly it's curtains
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all this is to take our minds off what really is going down
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The Germans paid a very heavy price for WW2 , they started it along with Russia
But the Germans are not using nerve gas any more, unlike Russia |
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Well said dan.
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Not sure about Germany paying a heavy price. They got Europe-except us- without firing a shot, after a respectful wait.
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