Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonJoe Biden looks to expand election battleground into Trump country Biden leads Trump by 12 points among Catholic voters: poll The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden goes on offense MORE invoked the Soviet Union in describing a potential Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBubba Wallace to be driver of Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin NASCAR team Graham: GOP will confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the election Southwest Airlines, unions call for six-month extension of government aid MORE presidency at an Ohio rally Monday night, accusing her presidential rival of having a "weird fascination with dictators like Vladimir Putin.”

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The Democratic nominee bashed Trump's relationship with the Russian president — he's regularly praised Putin on the stump, and his campaign has been connected to pro-Russian actors in Europe — during a Monday night rally in Akron.

"He gets confused between leadership and dictatorship. He has a hard time remembering who our friends are and who are adversaries are. He has a weird fascination with dictators like” Putin, she said.

"We have a lot of people living in this part of Ohio who, either themselves, their parents, or grandparents, came from countries that were under the yoke of oppression. And we are never going to let that happen again."

She went on to argue that Trump "basically signs up for Putin's wish list," a possible nod to reports that his campaign pushed to soften language in the GOP platform condemning Russia for its incursion into Ukraine.

And she chided Trump for being "cavalier about nuclear weapons" in arguing that he wouldn't mind if countries like Japan and South Korea developed those weapons.

It's not the first time a top Democrat has evoked the oppression in Soviet Russia while describing Trump. In August, Vice President Biden said Trump would have loved Josef Stalin — the brutal Soviet dictator under whose reign millions of Russians died.