In this excellently written article, Gary Kasparov remind us that Hitler was once, too, TIME man of the year.
From the page: "I understand that this award is not intended to be a beauty contest. But for all of Putin's attacks on the West, this will be promoted widely within Russia and around the world as a victory and an endorsement by the West of Putin's policies and practices of dictatorship. It's an early Christmas present to the Kremlin when what they really deserved was a lump of coal."