Tell me one thing Hitlers regime did that Putins regime hasn’t done one a smaller scale. I’ll start with the only thing I am not aware of Putins regime having done: medical experiments on prisoners (although I personally think “punitive psychiatry” is close enough).

Things everyone knows:

• baseless aggression against most neighbors; check
• a history of genocidal warfare: check (ask Chechens)
• their own Direlewanger Sturm Brigade made from convicts: check (Sturm Z)
• propagandists openly agitating for genocide (burning or drowning Ukrainian kids): check (as I said I have followed both sides)
• forced removal of children (also falls under genocide): check
• denying people to speak their own language and punishing them for it (also falls under genocide): check
• terror bombing cities with no military value like Germans during the blitz: check
• breaking agreements (like the Budapest Memorandum): check
• killing prisoners en masse: check (although thankfully Putler doesn’t have the logistical evil geniuses from Endlösung working for him)
• razing cities to the ground like Warszaw and preventing the population from fleeing: check (see Mariupol)

I even have two more that I am not aware of the Nazis doing:

• blatantly breaking their own cease fires to shell agreed upon evacuation corridors for both civilians and unarmed military personnel
• openly arguing for and taking practical steps to use hunger in the third world for their own political advantage.

I hope this should be enough to convince everyone except for the dumbest of the dumbest that Russians are almost just like (thankfully) dumb Nazis with less stylish uniforms.