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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
I am no fan of Russia, but sometime people forget the cost of WW2 to that nation.
They lost so many people (granted some where at their own hand), taking 26-27 million or so dead (civilian & military) leaves big big scar on a nation. Then wrap it up in a bandage of State Propaganda.
We in the West sometimes forget the price the Eastern Nations paid for that victory.
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While that is true, their policy of using other nations as meat shields to protect Russian interests pre-dates WW2. At the start of the war, they were more than happy cooperating with Nazi Germany to partition Europe and even helped them conquer Poland. They also tried to take Finland and Romania without provocation. To many people in Eastern Europe, the Russians were seen as every bit as antagonists as the Nazis. The brutality of the Soviet Union is the main reason almost every country in Europe had significant numbers of Nazi sympathizers. The Western nations had already forsaken them and were then betrayed by them after the conclusion of the war.