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Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavian states and Hungary all welcomed the Nazis at first, hoping to get rid of the soviets. Of course they realized they were just as b

• ust 11y ago
  This is completely incorrect. All of these countries were monarchies leading to the WW2, and all of them, except Yugoslavia, had fascistic tendencies. While they did welcomed the Nazis (again, Yugoslavia is an exception, it was invaded, not just by the Nazis, but by the surrounding countries as well, who were by that time Nazi puppet states), that was not to "get rid of the soviets". I am not trying to absolve Stalinist regime of it's atrocities, or that these countries didn't see Soviets as a threat, but this is just wrong. Also, they didn't "realized" that Nazis were "just as bad or worse", they were on the losing side of the war (again, exception is Yugoslavia, although there was a Nazi puppet state in Croatia), and their regimes were subsequently defeated by the USSR, which then included them in their sphere of influence (Warsaw pact, etc.), and yes, from that point on, effectively ruled them (Yugoslavia had it's on independent dictator, Tito). But to claim "welcoming the Nazis to rid of Soviets" is just factually wrong. What is puzzling for me, is that all of this is readily available on the wiki pages of these respective countries. It seems that relying on "common narrative" is all too great.
• AnAfrican 11y ago
  The Soviets got into those countries after the Nazis. They had no Soviets to get rid of by the time they welcomed the Nazis.
  • prodmerc 11y ago
    Some did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac...