fire86743@lemmygrad.ml to Communism@lemmygrad.ml • 1 year agoCan somebody explain how the Eastern European countries weren't Soviet puppets?message-squaremessage-square8 fedilinkarrow-up115
arrow-up115message-squareCan somebody explain how the Eastern European countries weren't Soviet puppets?fire86743@lemmygrad.ml to Communism@lemmygrad.ml • 1 year agomessage-square8 Commentsfedilink
minus-squarefire86743@lemmygrad.mlhexagonhexbear6·1 year ago the USSR didn't coup every country that didn't toe the line 1956 in Hungary and 1968 in Czechoslovakia? linkfedilink
minus-squareKaffe@lemmygrad.mlhexbear33·1 year agohttps://twitter.com/historic_ly/status/1329509412390756355?t=3TT7BfilHocJEYTJVYpOmg&s=19 Hungary's oppressed nobility started an anti-Semitic revolt against the Communist Party who asked for assistance from the Soviets because the country was still war torn and rebuilding. linkfedilink
minus-squareTrudge [Comrade]@lemmygrad.mlhexbear26·1 year agoMy point exactly. The USSR didn't coup every country that ran counter to their orthodoxy. Those events are notable precisely because they were exceptions to the general rule of no direct interference. linkfedilink
1956 in Hungary and 1968 in Czechoslovakia?
https://twitter.com/historic_ly/status/1329509412390756355?t=3TT7BfilHocJEYTJVYpOmg&s=19
Hungary's oppressed nobility started an anti-Semitic revolt against the Communist Party who asked for assistance from the Soviets because the country was still war torn and rebuilding.
My point exactly. The USSR didn't coup every country that ran counter to their orthodoxy.
Those events are notable precisely because they were exceptions to the general rule of no direct interference.