BBC: Putin 'will use World Cup like Hitler's Olympics', agrees Johnson
Boris Johnson has likened the way President Putin is promoting the World Cup in Russia to Hitler's notorious use of the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
The foreign secretary said Labour MP Ian Austin was "completely right" to say Russia's president wanted to "gloss over [his] brutal corrupt regime".
Mr Johnson said that he would have an "urgent conversation" with Russia about the safety of fans at the tournament.
A Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said he was "poisoned with hatred".
A Downing Street spokesman confirmed Mr Johnson was speaking on behalf of the government and that they were working closely with police on plans for the World Cup.
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WNU Editor: Here we go again .... comparing someone to Hitler. The Russian Foreign Ministry has responded .... Moscow slams Boris Johnson for comparing Russia's World Cup to Nazi Olympics (DW).
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UK Foreign Minister Boris Johnson compares Vladimir Putin's World Cup to Adolf Hitler's 1936 Olympics -- South China Morning Post
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