Ukraine. Recalling Night of Long Knives Historic parallels are a risky thing, but the similarity between the past and out times is stunning. The Kiev junta - Maidan armed groups relationship and the bloody events known in the history of Germany as the Night of Long Knives are by and large the same stories... Ukraine is at the initial stage of standoff between «formal» structures and the formations of self-confident stormtroopers. Perhaps Yarosh will succeed in staging a coup, something Röhm failed to do. In its turn, the junta will take advantage of contradictions within the Nazi ranks to cement its positions and bring a new «Führer» to power... The further scenario is almost predetermined, whoever wins the internal strife, its common Ukrainians who will suffer. Those days in Germany an average citizen was doomed to suffer no matter if it was Hitler or Röhm who grabbed the power. Only the repetition of 1945 can save the country...  http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/03/26/ukraine-recalling-night-of-long-knives.html