Russia seeks explanation from Britain over Prince Charles' Putin remark

[dipsydoodle]

(Reuters) - Russia will seek an explanation from British officials on Thursday after reports that Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, likened Russian President Vladimir Putin to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler for annexing part of Ukraine.

During a tour of Canada, the 65-year-old prince told a Jewish woman who fled from Poland during World War Two that "Putin is doing just about the same as Hitler", according to a report in the Daily Mail newspaper.

Charles's remarks, described by a royal source as "well-intentioned" and not meant to be public, stunned political leaders and diplomats in Britain because the royal family does not traditionally voice political views in public.

Queen Elizabeth, Charles's mother, has never aired any such emotive sentiments in public. A spokeswoman for Charles's office said they did not comment on his private conversations.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/05/22/us-britain-putin-prince-idINKBN0E20PL20140522

This seems to be a matter of what was actually said . BBC expresses it differently :

A former Polish war refugee who met Prince Charles in Canada has said he likened some Nazi actions in Europe to those of Russia's Vladimir Putin.

Marienne Ferguson was speaking after meeting Prince Charles at a Nova Scotia immigration museum where she works.

As they discussed Hitler's takeover of countries, the prince "said something to the effect of 'it's not unlike... what Putin is doing,'" she recalled.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-27497899

That differs from the way in which The Mail expressed it.

[MADem]

1. When he's right, he's right, and he is right.

Putin is running roughshod over sovereign nations, just like he who shall not be named did.

He was right about some of the ill-advised architecture in UK as well.

[malaise]

2. Funny how the British Royal family

and large sections of the British aristocracy supported Hitler.

[Nye Bevan]

3. Shouldn't Putin try simply squawking "GODWIN!"

That seems to be a common technique these days for attempting to shut down such comparisons.