• umbrella@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    What?? You should look into how the US heavily invested in red scare propaganda and fascist think tanks in those places, after the soviets. Might give you an answer on how people this generation came to hate it, but the vast majority of them living at the time liked it.

    Also you don’t happen to be a nazi-adjacent decsendant do you? I hear those got rightfully terrorized. Same way how rich people now will insist they are the poor oppressed minorities.

    I guess you don’t remember the shock therapy that made the balkans all hate eachother.

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      3 months ago

      Dude, the Balkans were non-aligned, they were never part of the Warsaw pact. Yes, the US did awful things there, but as far as I’ve heard from people who actually escaped the Yugoslav wars, nothing there was clear-cut. That said, it’s not what I’m talking about, the Balkans is not Eastern Europe, and Tito is not the USSR.

      What I’m talking about is the Warsaw Pact, the socialist republics in a military and economic alliance with the Soviet Union.

      Also you don’t happen to be a nazi-adjacent decsendant do you?

      You couldn’t be further from the truth.

      And I am sure all the people at Katyn, and all the people taken from their homes, and all the Jewish people who owned large flats in Budapest, and all the people just picked off the street, and all the people in the crowd when State Security fired into it, especially the students, and the previous chairman of the country’s communist party were all nazis or US plants or whatever.

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        3 months ago

        like how you just gloss over the post-soviet us atrocities in there when its to blame for most of the problems there today.

        the balkans were part of russia at the time lol, and yugoslavia was fucked the most at the tail end/post soviet era.

        and yes, a lot of us meddling over there, just like it happened in my own country, or all over the planet after ww2 for that matter.

        im not claiming history to be black and white here but even language over there is similar as fuck to eachother in some cases, but they were artifiially separated and made to be enemies in the saddest way.