On 6 June 1997, Neo Nazi group Pērkonkrusts unsuccessfully bombed the monument at Victory Park to the liberators of Latvia from fascism.Today the Latvian government accomplished what the Neo Nazis attempted. Fascism is rising once again across Europe. pic.twitter.com/6YGzzjZFCR— Azhar (@lonelyredcurl) August 26, 2022
The term to look up is "double genocide theory". In short, the Baltic states and Western Ukraine were enthusiastic participants in the Holocaust, usually not even sending their Jews away - just shooting them into mass graves locally. After the war they had to justify this somehow, so whenever anyone talks about the Holocaust they make sure that the Soviets get mentioned too.
Which itself comes from the anti-Semitic link between communism and Jews. "We had to kill the Jewish Communists, or else they would genocide us instead!"
Edit: oh someone posted a good link about this further down in thread.
my understanding is that warsaw pact/iron curtain countries deeply resent their geopolitical reality, basically. western europe got the marshall plan and liberation from the nazis by non-communist forces. eastern europe got the opposite - they were simply lucky to survive and spent the next 50+ years under the austere reality of rebuilding their world after the war, with soviet aid. i would hazard a guess that life in eastern europe from the 1950s-1980s probably wasn't great, especially when your rich western neighbors flood the airwaves with propaganda encouraging you to hate your liberators. fast forward to now and the generation that grew up in war and actually was liberated has died. their children who grew up with the resentment described above are the ones in charge now.
It's propaganda and its effects. Paul Cockshott visited Poland in the '80s and he said the Polish were eating better (i.e. substantially more meat) than the average Scottish person and did better on other metrics too. Yet the Polish are more pissed about their government than the average Scot is somehow.
Edit: also probably the US, etc. helping to install fascist governments in these places for generations now.
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The term to look up is "double genocide theory". In short, the Baltic states and Western Ukraine were enthusiastic participants in the Holocaust, usually not even sending their Jews away - just shooting them into mass graves locally. After the war they had to justify this somehow, so whenever anyone talks about the Holocaust they make sure that the Soviets get mentioned too.
Which itself comes from the anti-Semitic link between communism and Jews. "We had to kill the Jewish Communists, or else they would genocide us instead!"
Edit: oh someone posted a good link about this further down in thread.
the good link you're talking about, is it this one?
https://jewishcurrents.org/the-double-genocide-theory
my understanding is that warsaw pact/iron curtain countries deeply resent their geopolitical reality, basically. western europe got the marshall plan and liberation from the nazis by non-communist forces. eastern europe got the opposite - they were simply lucky to survive and spent the next 50+ years under the austere reality of rebuilding their world after the war, with soviet aid. i would hazard a guess that life in eastern europe from the 1950s-1980s probably wasn't great, especially when your rich western neighbors flood the airwaves with propaganda encouraging you to hate your liberators. fast forward to now and the generation that grew up in war and actually was liberated has died. their children who grew up with the resentment described above are the ones in charge now.
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It's propaganda and its effects. Paul Cockshott visited Poland in the '80s and he said the Polish were eating better (i.e. substantially more meat) than the average Scottish person and did better on other metrics too. Yet the Polish are more pissed about their government than the average Scot is somehow.
Edit: also probably the US, etc. helping to install fascist governments in these places for generations now.