In a recent blog post, billionaire currency manipulator and political activist George Soros seemed to draw parallels between the Nazis and the modern Russian military. He compared the current Russian invasion to the 1944 siege of Nazi-held Budapest by the Soviet army.

In the post published on his blog on Saturday, Soros called to “stand with Ukraine, as they stand with us.” He then compared Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to the siege of Budapest, then a Nazi-occupied city, by the Soviet forces. During the war, Soros served as a Nazi collaborator in Budapest, Hungary.

“Brave Ukrainians are now on the frontline and risking their lives in an onslaught that reminds me of the siege of Budapest in 1944 and the siege of Sarajevo in 1993,” the tycoon wrote.

This quote implies that Soros is comparing the Ukrainian troops to the Nazis who were inside occupied Budapest and the Russian troops of today to the Russian troops of 1944 who were fighting against the Nazis.

The statement was also seen on Soros’s Twitter account but was removed after users pointed out the contradiction. The blog post is still accessible on Soros’ website.

“It is important that both the transatlantic alliance (the United States, Canada, the European Union, and the United Kingdom) but also other nations do whatever is in their power to support Ukraine in its time of existential threat,” the Open Society Foundations founder wrote, accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering “a direct attack on the sovereignty of all States that were once in the Soviet Union, and beyond.”

In 1944 Nazi-occupied Budapest was surrounded by Soviet soldiers over the span of months of treacherous house-to-house combat. Soros, a 14-year old Jew at the time, claimed that he survived the Nazi occupation of the Hungarian city only because his family managed to obtain Christian identification.

After enacting a “special military operation” in Ukraine’s Donbas region, Russian President Vladimir Putin called Russia’s invasion one of “de-Nazification” and “demilitarization.”

While Putin has accused Kyiv of genocide against the people of Donbas, Ukraine denied that claim, insisting that Moscow propagated it as a false pretext to wage a military offensive. In its appeal to The Hague on Sunday, Kyiv accused the Kremlin of “planning acts of genocide” against Ukrainians; however, no evidence was cited.