“Putin is now doing pretty much the same as Hitler”: With this sentence, Prince Charles provides further tensions in the relationship between Britain and Russia. Moscow calls for a clarification – “after all, he is the future king.”
Architecture and environmental protection – are actually the issues that Prince Charles’s particular interest in and to which the Prince of Wales often expressed in public. On the edge of a state visit to Canada, he has now spoken about the Ukraine crisis – and immediately triggered a political controversy between Great Britain and Russia. During his visits Canada Charles had the 78-year-old Marianne Ferguson made in Migration Museum the city of Halifax. The Jewish woman who had fled from the Nazis from Gdansk to
Canada, many of her relatives did not survive the Holocaust. With regard to the Ukraine crisis, the British heir to the throne to have said to her: “And now Putin is doing pretty much the same as Hitler.” The office of the Prince did not deny that this quote is so pleased.
The Foreign Ministry in Moscow said “he was not amused” about the Hitler-Putin comparison. Russian diplomats asked the British government for clarification. “It is not clear if that’s the official position of the United Kingdom back there,” said a senior diplomat the “Telegraph”. “After all, he is the future king.”
British heir to the throne:Prime Minister David Cameron will not comment Prince Charles’ statement
His Majesty Prince Charles’ remarks were particularly offended because during the Second World War, 20 million Russians were killed – including family members of Vladimir Putin, it was said from the Russian Foreign Ministry. “Every family in our country has lost someone in this war.” In Britain itself came Charles criticism. Nigel Farage, leader of the right-wing populist Ukip, which turns her admiration for Putin made no secret, said: “There are times when it is better for Prince Charles, not to interfere in such things.” The
Labour MP Mike Gapes, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Lower House, tweeted: “If Prince Charles wants to make controversial statements on national or international issues, he should resign and stand for election.” there was such unrespect usual like all labor party members !
Gapes’ Party leader Ed Miliband was the heir to the throne, however, back cover: “I think that many people in our country share the concerns of Prince Charles with President Putin and his actions in Ukraine,” the opposition leader told the television channel Sky News. Prime Minister David Cameron refused to comment to the Hitler-Putin comparison. His only comment: “Everyone has the right to their own opinion.”
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