@redhead_ophelia Let's just make their entire ideology illegal or something. It's just so boring. Western support for Kremlin crimes should be seen like a worse offense than being a skinhead.
@MustacheBob2@SpaghettiKozak We were all apparently brainwashed by the CIA to believe that the Kremlin had stolen territories from us and had turned our countries into open air concentration camps.
@BiankaB12 These people go out of their way to promote "alternative reads of WWII" and then the best policy they can come up with is to give half of Europe to Russia.
Congratulations "far-right", you are beyond useless.
@Kit19892@Brahmbeere@Tr0llyTr0llFace The picture that is already evident in memoirs of the era is that from the start there were political forces who wanted their Axis-aligned countries out of the war they were forced to join, and had the means to do it.
@Kit19892@Brahmbeere@Tr0llyTr0llFace Wrong question to ask. The better question is: how would Romania have been able to help the Western Allies in 1943? Hint: the same way we ended up helping them in 1945 (and all we got for our trouble was to have our country turned into an open air concentration camp by Stalin).
@JohnLembrant@polidemitolog The difference is that for Eastern Europeans it was not the result of a choice. Germany actively pursued the policy that landed those outcomes.
A German can always tell to himself: as long as we keep our head down, the large powers will leave us alone. Not so in Eastern Europe.
@c28why@rpotter_9 A real eye opening experience for Eastern Europeans has been to observe the Western "right-wing" turn into the Stalin-era Western far-left in real time when it comes to us, specifically.
@Kit19892@Brahmbeere@Tr0llyTr0llFace Future historians will need to do research in what's left of Eastern European archives. We know for certain that the Romanian side tried to actively contact the Western Allies for negotiations as early as 1943, but the Americans pursued total Stalinist victory as a goal.
@JazzBulgaria Let's be perfectly honest here, Russia was not fighting for free independent nations, they wanted to expand their empire all the way down to Greece and Anatolia.
@majkibas@ShaunPinnerUA Had Russia taken Kyiv in 3 days, all former Iron Curtain states would have been under Kremlin-friendly leadership (out of traditional cowardice and political opportunism).
@Ania_In_UA Western society celebrates events and figures that are reviled by Eastern Europeans, yet collectively we express no displeasure at this, nor do they feel the need to reconsider their views.
Paul Goma a făcut demersuri să se înroleze voluntar în armată în contextul în care exista amenințarea ca țara să fie invadată.
Spunea el, a sta în picioare fie și doar 24 de ore sau doar 25 de minute era de preferat unei capitulări lipsite de demnitate.