History Always Repeats Itself and The Hotel Industry is Now a Part of History

Vladimir Putin is reenacting the behaviour of Joseph Stalin, and the International Hotel Industry is not playing its part in the application of sanctions like the rest of the world's businesses that invested in Russia.

Here is why the International Hotel Industry should be leaving Russia in droves. Because by them staying in, they add to the responsibility of all the deaths, rapes, and atrocities in Ukraine.

Why? Read this account, and perhaps you will understand that nothing written below is my personal opinion; it is recorded historical fact.

Joseph Stalin was an amoral psychopath and paranoid with a gangster's mentality. Stalin eliminated anyone and everyone who was a threat to his power – including (and especially) former allies. He had no regard for the sanctity of human life.

One may be able to safely say that about Putin when he is dead because all his opponents are either dead of poisoning or in prison on trumped-up charges. So journalists,?politicians, and just about anyone is fair game as far as Putin is concerned.

Stalin was responsible for between 20 million and sixty million deaths. Putin's numbers are not yet computed, but we can be sure that he is personally accountable for every Ukrainian and Russian death in Ukraine.

The current Russian invasion of Ukraine is a true example of history repeating itself. Few, I am sure, realise that the second world war was not started just by the Germans. The Hitler government had signed a treaty of friendship, cooperation, and joint protection known as the 'Hitler–Stalin Pact'. Russia was complicit in causing the second world war because it invaded Poland in partnership with Germany.

Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, and Russia invaded Poland on 17 September. They carved up Poland, and Germany grabbed part of Poland and moved the borders between them. Russia did the same, took a significant portion of Poland and moved the border to make the stolen land part of the USSR. So what needs to be understood is that Russia and Nazi Germany were initially allies. In 2022 Russia still has the land stolen from Poland as part of Russia; they said they were Russian speaking and were being liberated.

The 1939 aggression against Poland by the Soviet Union was without a formal declaration of war. Instead, the Soviet Union classed their invasion of Poland as a military operation and refused to call it a war. Same tactic as Putin's invasion and occupation of Ukraine in 2022.

On 17 September 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, sixteen days after Germany invaded Poland from the west. Subsequent military operations lasted for the following 20 days. Finally, they ended on 6 October 1939 with the two-way division and annexation of the entire territory of the Second Polish Republic by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. This division is sometimes called the Fourth Partition of Poland. The Soviet and German invasion of Poland was indirectly indicated in the "secret protocol" of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact [Hitler – Stalin Pact] signed on 23 August 1939, which divided Poland into "spheres of influence" of the two powers.

German and Soviet cooperation in the invasion of Poland has been described as co-belligerence.

Russia as, the USSR and Nazi Germany jointly and severally attacked Poland. However, the Russians were far worse than the Germans, and the Russian soldiers raped every woman they could find and murdered thousands of innocent Polish people, men, women and children. Like all the Russian invasions, they continually slaughtered the ordinary people and destroyed people's homes as part of their policy.

They redrew the borders and stole Polish land and towns, which are still today part of Russia.

Russia attacked its neighbours and forced them to become part and parcel of Russia under the USSR banner. The Soviet government announced it was acting to protect the Russian speaking citizens of Ukrainian and Belarusians who lived in the eastern part of Poland. Later, when Germany eventually turned against Russia, the pact fell apart. Still, until then, the USSR was a commufascist Nazi emulating state, but they were many times worse than the German Nazis.

These are the countries that Russia invaded in the last 100 years. Ukraine, Georgia, Afghanistan, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Japan, Germany, Croatia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania, Romania, Iran, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Poland.????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

What Putin is doing today is an extension of Stalinism. He wants to reerect the old Soviet USSR. The current invasion of Ukraine is once again a?modern commufascist invasion; perhaps today, Russia is a little more fascist than communist.

Yet the results in Ukraine are the same rape and murder of innocent people as a gross act of genocide wrapped in a million war crimes. The theft of land and the kidnapping of people. History once more repeats itself.

If the repetition continues, other countries will indeed be attacked. For example, Russia's neighbours Finland and Sweden are currently being threatened militarily because they want to join NATO. If they are invaded, we can all openly declare that the International Hotel Industry helped bring that about.

Every corporation must support right and reject wrong. Almost every international corporation has shut down or pulled out of Russia to protest Putin's actions. Except that is the prominent International Hotel Groups. In the long run, pulling out will benefit shareholders and investors and preserve their good names. Staying in may damage the corporate image and all involved with them.

When you consider almost 400 international companies have toed the line and stopped trading in Russia. The inaction of the International Hotel Groups in Russia and their refusal to do the same is a sell-out to all the others, it is little more than a disgrace and smells of cowardice.

To name a few of the 400 companies list them here.

Amazon:?$457 billion. Activision. Adidas. Adobe. AECOM. American Express. American Airlines. Alphabet:?$257 billion. Apple:?$378 billion. AerCap. Airbnb. Airbus. Akamai. Airbus. Burger King. Blizzard. Bloomberg. Boeing. Bumble. Burberry. Canada Goose. Carlsberg. Caterpillar. Chanel. CitiGroup. Coca-Cola. Delta Airlines. Deutsche Bank. DHL. Disney. Erikson. Estée Lauder. Equinor Energy. Exon Mobil. FedEx. Fiat. Fulgor Harriss Industries Mex. General Motors. Goldman Sachs. Google. Harley Davidson. Heineken. Hermès. Hitachi. H&M Group. IBM. Ikea. Inditex. Intel. Jeep. Kering. KFC. KPM. Lego. Levi’s. LG Electronics. Little Caesars. Louis Vuitton. 3M Accenture. Mars. Master Card. Mitsubishi. Nokia Norges Bank Investment Management, the world's largest sovereign wealth fund in Norway. Nestle. NetFlix. Papa Johns. Pay-Pal. Peugeot. Philip Morris. Prada. Piza Hut. PwC. Volkswagen:?$303 billion. Société Générale Bank. Soney. Toyota Motor:?$291 billion. Starbucks. Samsung Electronics:?$279 billion. SAP. McDonald's. Mercedes-Benz Group:?$194 billion. BP:?$183.5 billion. PepsiCo. Renault Cars. Royal Dutch Shell:?$183.2 billion. Spotify. Tata Steel. Tic-Toc. Unilever. United Airlines. UPL. Volvo and Daimler Truck Holding. Warner Bros. Western Union. Uniglo. Visa Card. YouTube.