Irish Central
December 23, 2013
Vladimir Putin has said there was no difference between Oliver Cromwell and Joseph Stalin – both were dictators.
Putin was speaking at a press conference on plans to restore statues of Stalin and other communist leaders and referenced the statue of Cromwell that resides outside the Houses of Parliament in London.
‘How in particular is Cromwell so different from Stalin?’ he said, according to the Daily Mail. ‘Can you tell me? Not in any way at all. From the point of view of liberals, he is the same bloody dictator.’
It is believed that up to 40 million died under Stalin’s reign, half through starvation or imprisonment, the other half fighting Hitler during World War II.
Around 300,000 are believed to have died during the English Civil War and during Cromwell’s brutal campaigns in Ireland.
‘He was quite a treacherous dude, one has to say,” Putin said of Cromwell.