Not so cheap as some Ukrainian zealots, who tend to seek simple solutions of grave problems rooting deep inside their country. ;(
Think you might find useful for yourself to glance upon Ivan Aksakov's letters from Crimea, where he, great albeit somewhat obscure today Russian poet, was a member of the government commission investigating the financial wrongdoings of the Russian intendant services in times of Crimean war, under Nikolai I. Analogies between late Nikolai and withering Putin are plenteous and, to me, much more informative than reductio ad Hitlerum.