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The statement above was the universal statement > The Soviets never liberated anyone A universal statement can be disproven by a single counterexample.

• JumpCrisscross 1y ago
  > universal statement can be disproven by a single counterexample Sure. Pedantically. To the extent we can say Belgian colonialism was great. Saying the Soviets were fine is a stupid argument if the best you can come up with is Australia wasn’t fucked because the Allies got half of it first and then forced Moscow not to fuck it.
  • saubeidl 1y ago
    But it's not just pedanticism. They literally gave my grandparents their freedom. More than that, they forced the Allies to enshrine minority rights in our constitution.
    • JumpCrisscross 1y ago
      > They literally gave my grandparents their freedom. More than that, they forced the Allies to enshrine minority rights in our constitution And Allies gave others in the country their freedom. And pushed the Austrian constitution in other ways. What you’re saying would be like a West German arguing Germany was mostly liberated by the Allies, because they happen to be on the side that they got to first.
      • saubeidl 1y ago
        > And Allies gave others in the country their freedom. I'm not denying that. I'm just saying it's wrong to say the soviets never did.