A tale of the true communism

[htpcl]

Lo, dear history revisionists fans of the objective truth! It's your fave provider of alternate history parables anecdotal experiences speaking again. See, today is "an" historic day in the... ehm, history of my tiny country situated on the fringe between Europe and Asia. Btw Monday was another historic day too. All in all, seems like this week is

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Ah. Basically there was actual support, though limited, for Communism in the various Eastern European states, but the fascists always required either German or Italian armies to bolster them and hence those regimes were never secure and more likely to be bloody in imposing themselves.

But the kind of Communism that came in 1944 to most of Eastern Europe came with the Red Army and hence was pro-Soviet at the expense both of local Communists and everyone else, and thus never had true popular legitimacy.

Indeed. In my opinion Eastern European opposition movements had to require by virtue of being in totalitarian states both more idealism and more stamina than those of the West, because no variation of totalitarianism ever allows peaceable opposition. If it does, that's a sign of the dictatorship weakening.

Ah. Though in some ways I feel that given it was the 19th Century that the Bulgarians, as Christians, were easier to sympathize with than the Sunni Muslim Ottoman Empire was, given the lengthy sequence of Ottoman Wars with the Christian states of the region. Not that to me the Ottoman or Russian Empires were much different in terms of the "goodness/morality scales."

Ah. And unfortunately in 1916 it made good sense to side with the Central Powers. But the war didn't end then, it ended 2 years later and then we already know what happened thereafter. >.< And unfortunately by the time Hitler was pushing to expand the Anti-Comintern Pact there was little option for Bulgaria's leaders, with the USSR on one side of that frontier and the Germans under Hitler on the other. *shudders.*

Not the position I'd envy being in.

[htpcl]

That's the curse of being at a crossroads. Everyone suddenly thinks you're too important.

[underlankers]

But also to truly allow for what those masses may really want instead of the interest of the bigger, stronger powers. Too important to let alone, but never unimportant enough to allow real independence.