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Russia protests at Prince Charles' remarks about Putin
2014-05-23
[Iran Press TV] Russia has expressed outrage at British Prince Charles for comparing President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
to the Nazi German leader, Adolf Hitler
...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like...
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The Russian Foreign Ministry said Moscow was demanding an official explanation about comments attributed to Prince Charles.

"If these words were really said, then undoubtedly they are not worthy of a future British monarch," Russian Foreign Ministry front man, Alexander Lukashevich, said in Moscow on Thursday.

British media reports say Charles likened the Russian president to the Nazi leader during his royal tour of Canada.

Charles, who is visiting Canada, made the comment during a meeting with World War Two veterans and their families at an immigration museum in Nova Scotia.
Posted by:Fred

#3  I'd have gone with John Gotti myself, but that's being rather 'local'.
Posted by: Pappy   2014-05-23 13:13  

#2  Prince Charles' remarks seem dead-on to me.
Posted by: Squinty   2014-05-23 12:07  

#1  Allan told him.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-05-23 01:41  

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