>>I am really surprised. I have absolutely no problem now in thinking that from this point on, you can go it alone in the world. I really hope the U.S. does not bail out Netherlands again if your view is the general view of the public there.
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>Not sure if I understand. I simply stated that I did understand the moves of the russians, whether it was good or bad. Look at it from their side. They want these european wars to end, no matter what. They had three succesive wars (napoleon, WWI, WWII) where it was invaded by europeans in little over a hundred years. They lost many, many millions of lives.

IMO Stalin wouldn't have minded the loss of life so much. The Germans saved him doing it to his own people himself - all he was interested in was the sovereignty of the USSR.

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>Don't you understand their pov? Is it really that hard to look through 'the bad communistic' views ?

There's a lot of truth in that, but they used the end of the Patriotic War as an excuse to land-grab, and extend their "buffer zones"

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>This is not to say, that we were cheering for the russians to come in, but if you view it from their perspective, this is what we called for ourselves. We can't blame the russians, we can only blame ourselves in that we were no able to stop fighting eachother.
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>And yes, I'm lucky that I've been born in the netherlands. And yes I'm very comfortable with being one, though I would be perfectly happy living in peace anywhere else, as long as I have the possibility to lead a happy life in a world where I can relate to.
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>>>>>>Russia had no intention to liberate you, comrade Walter.
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>>>>>Where did I say it had ?? It had the intention to protect itself from the european hostilities.
>>>>>And who could blame them ??
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>>>>It had the intention to seize as much land as possible. Before 1941 Stalin did it agreeing with Hitler, after 1941 he had to fight for the same goal, and after 1945 USA put stop on it west from Iron Curtain. You got lucky to get on the better side of the wall, though you don't deserve it.
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>>>Sure I was lucky, but why don't I deserve it? Because I tend to explain my views as I see them?