I get that there is old historic animosity to tap into and that they have a history of widespread fascism that was still remembered upon the time of the destruction of the USSR. But to an outsider it seems like this is the only thing there is. It is as if the memory and appreciation of antifascist partisans and almost half a century of peaceful soviet life and development has been completely repressed. You never hear anyone push back on nationalism, Russophobia and Nazi apologia. You don't even hear about old people being nostalgic for their youth.
Has the propaganda really been that successful? How did they do it?
First,the people who were foolishly led into thinking that capitalism would be better didn't want to admit they were wrong and dug their heels in and attributed every failure to the nebulous "legacy of communism"
Second,the latent reactionary sentiments
Third,the inferiority complex we all seem to have,this desire to join the ranks of the West in the vain hope we get a fraction of their prosperity
And fourth,you have to understand,when I say the history was rewritten by gusanos and revisionist traitors,it was rewritten.30 years have gone by since Communism fell,and now all the middle aged people and the young adults were taught a twisted version of history and it's been turbocharged by the unsatisfactory development brought by capitalism and the poverty that still exists
As for why the Baltics and Poland are the worst,I can't say,since Romania had different conditions,but my thinking is that they got the somewhat less bad deal and are more integrated than the rest of the former Warsaw Pact,same goes for Czechia
Not only was the Eastern Bloc looted,but it's very ideological base was uprooted and it's very society shattered and then remoulded through heavy US and EU interference to become the perfect vassal region
I get that there is old historic animosity to tap into and that they have a history of widespread fascism that was still remembered upon the time of the destruction of the USSR. But to an outsider it seems like this is the only thing there is. It is as if the memory and appreciation of antifascist partisans and almost half a century of peaceful soviet life and development has been completely repressed. You never hear anyone push back on nationalism, Russophobia and Nazi apologia. You don't even hear about old people being nostalgic for their youth.
Has the propaganda really been that successful? How did they do it?
Information monopoly and all out cultural war. They basically used Zhdanov theory but against communism.
They really broke the entirety of European Socialism and used the pieces to create the franken-vassal states we have today
That is a thorny question
I believe it's a sum of multiple reasons
First,the people who were foolishly led into thinking that capitalism would be better didn't want to admit they were wrong and dug their heels in and attributed every failure to the nebulous "legacy of communism"
Second,the latent reactionary sentiments
Third,the inferiority complex we all seem to have,this desire to join the ranks of the West in the vain hope we get a fraction of their prosperity
And fourth,you have to understand,when I say the history was rewritten by gusanos and revisionist traitors,it was rewritten.30 years have gone by since Communism fell,and now all the middle aged people and the young adults were taught a twisted version of history and it's been turbocharged by the unsatisfactory development brought by capitalism and the poverty that still exists
As for why the Baltics and Poland are the worst,I can't say,since Romania had different conditions,but my thinking is that they got the somewhat less bad deal and are more integrated than the rest of the former Warsaw Pact,same goes for Czechia
Not only was the Eastern Bloc looted,but it's very ideological base was uprooted and it's very society shattered and then remoulded through heavy US and EU interference to become the perfect vassal region
I think it'a actually a serious crime in one or two of the Baltics to speak true history aloud.
I really thinkj the decade of apicalyptic demographic collapse did a lot to destroy the historical memory of the ussr.