Maybe just because I'm a communist the themes the show deals with to me seemed broad enough to apply to any Imperial power. They weren't particularly prosecuting a specific group of Bajorans or anything, so I never really read the Cardassians as space nazis And the themes of Bajor trying to deal with its own nationalism and trying to decide what sort of society they wanted to become, really feels like an analogue for what a lot of former colonial countries had to deal with.
Maybe just because I'm a communist the themes the show deals with to me seemed broad enough to apply to any Imperial power. They weren't particularly prosecuting a specific group of Bajorans or anything, so I never really read the Cardassians as space nazis And the themes of Bajor trying to deal with its own nationalism and trying to decide what sort of society they wanted to become, really feels like an analogue for what a lot of former colonial countries had to deal with.