@fire86743@lemmygrad.ml to Communism@lemmygrad.mlEnglish • 2 years agoCan somebody explain how the Eastern European countries weren't Soviet puppets?message-square9arrow-up115
arrow-up115message-squareCan somebody explain how the Eastern European countries weren't Soviet puppets?@fire86743@lemmygrad.ml to Communism@lemmygrad.mlEnglish • 2 years agomessage-square9
minus-square@fire86743@lemmygrad.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglish6•2 years ago the USSR didn’t coup every country that didn’t toe the line 1956 in Hungary and 1968 in Czechoslovakia?
minus-squareKaffelinkfedilink30•2 years 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.
minus-squareTrudge [Comrade]linkfedilink24•2 years 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.
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.