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> Western Europe in and post WWII would seem to apply. What world powers funded revolutionary forces in Western Europe in and post WWII?

• colechristensen 4y ago
  The United States and the Soviet Union facilitated the overthrow of Hitler, Mussolini, and associated puppet governments in Europe during WWII and reconstructed the affected countries or their successor states after the war. Those which remained in the US sphere of influence seemed to do fairly well.
  • janef0421 4y ago
    With the exception of Yugoslavia, that was achieved primarily through invasion.
  • pdonis 4y ago
    How is any of this funding "revolutionary forces"? Retaking Western Europe from the Nazis wasn't a revolution. It was just restoring those countries to the governments that had been kicked out when the Nazis conquered them.
    • karottenreibe 4y ago
      How did the Nazis conquer Germany in your opinion? The point applies at least there.
      • pdonis 4y ago
        > How did the Nazis conquer Germany in your opinion? By winning the popular vote in an election. No revolution at all. > The point applies at least there. Even leaving aside the above, the point would only apply if you are claiming that Nazi Germany promoted "peace and prosperity" in Western Europe.
        • ixs 4y ago
          There’s an argument to be made that the nazi Party never won an actual free election. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hitler-was-not-voted-into-office/2016/03/18/04443d06-e615-11e5-a9ce-681055c7a05f_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hitler-was-not-voted... is a good example of the reasoning.
          • pdonis 4y ago
            Sure, just stipulate that any election with results you don't like isn't "an actual free election". No True Scotsman is indeed alive and well.
            • ixs 4y ago
              Uhm. That’s a nice straw man to support the “no true Scotsman” fallacy. Well done. :-) I did a bit of digging on Wikipedia. And based on the description in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1933_German_federal_election https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1933_German_federal_el... I think the claim that the ‘33 election wasn’t a free election isn’t baseless. Having your fascist enforcers “monitor” the election, helping elderly people to the voting booths and “helping” them to vote correctly all seem to be indicators that the election is fishy. And even then, the fascist party didn’t even get a majority…