>>color-coded NATO-candidate president willing to say that they fared better under Hitler than under USSR
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>>Who ever admitted to that?
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>President or PM of one of those three Baltic states. Something to the effect that they weren't liberated from the Nazis, but submitted to a worse occupation, or so. I'm not keeping tabs nor links, just memorizing impressions. It was a speech when someone from here was visiting (Condi?) a couple of years ago. And I've heard that on NPR a few times.


Now you've jogged my memory. I read accounts of nazi occupiers somewhere in that area I think who actually got quite a bit of support from the locals due to their fair treatment of the local populace. Not to mention they had food. It was all destroyed when the Russians drove through and proceeded to do the usual raping and pillaging, etc. I can't remember where it was now!

I do remember surmising that in most cases (throughout history), the treatment of the local populace by invaders depended almost entirely on the character or plans of the senior leader present...