@mikitaposts canada cant be EU member anyway, and its been pretty clear for years that Ukraine wont be EU member for 20 years (as per several governments), or more if poland will block it forever
@MichelJungwirth Wien wurde von Sowjetischen Truppen befreit, also müsste es Stalin sein. Oder einfach Marschal Fedor Tolbukhin welcher kommandierte und Renner´s Regierung authorisierte
@HerbertSch40691@jasperk04 Waldheim wasnt though, he was a Wehrmacht intel officer, and nothing ever was attested to him in the end, it was just political slander. Also it as in the 80s, after he was UN Secretary-General elected by the USSR. There were former nazis in the SPÖ Kreisky Government however
@PunishedRWR In Austria, FPÖ (co)governs in several provinces, has been in federal government, is at 40% in polls. "Cordon sanitaire" is coming to a end either way in germany, by the center killing itself or AfD governing, although CDU ofc will have big backlash if they cooperate with them
@Bokononisme while yes the Commission is not very democratic (especially current one), its not uncommon in europe to not have a directly elected head of state/government, the only directly elected chief executives currently are France, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Cyprus i think
@Lavader_ got a medal by the pope while the western world isolated him btw, and kept relations with the muslim world where he was welcomed, like a meeting with saddam, freeing austrian and swiss people trapped in kuwait in 1990, the eastern bloc also didnt care too much, even invited him
@Devin_J_Monahan Some Austrian Regions have been governed by the same party since 1945, or even before that like Vienna has been socialist since 1919, Tyrol conservative since 1917 with predecessor parties, apart from austrofascism and nazist periods
@magicinthealps in german theres 2 words, "Kamerad" (used among military, police, firefighters) and "Genosse" which was adopted by socialists etc in the german language and still refer to another as such during party congresses (although nazis also adopted it) and also is used for cooperatives
@dollarbillbluez They have some relations generations back with King Alfonso XII marrying a Austrian Habsburg, who is the great grandmother of the current King
@LandsknechtPike Even long before that, slavs settled much of Austria where they found local celtic/romanish people until bavarians moved south around 600-1000 ad