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There's a reason most of Eastern Europe hate Russia so much. They kept armies on our territories after WW2 and made sure Communist puppet governments were installed. Their armies and puppet governments then engaged in bloody removal of any opposition. I literally knew people in my village who were put in Siberian gulags and came back scarred. People that came back after the war were arrested by the new puppet regime and put into prison at home were they were tortured and killed. I visited some of those prisons after they were turned into museums and they are ghastly. They set up vast secret police networks with incentives for people to turn in their friends and neighbors. Everyone felt unsafe and you couldn't trust anyone.
There were rebels and freedom fighters that went into hiding and attacked the new regime. A lot of them waited for the Allies to come liberate the country. Most of them died without even finding out that Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin split Eastern Europe on a piece of napkin at the Yalta conference.
If you ask tankies they'll just tell you your friends were bourgeoisie and deserved to be put in camps for not being socialist enough...
For nuance's sake - there are still older generation folk that are vehemently pro-russia but they usually don't espouse socialist values but more nationalistic, Russian imperial interests and general anti-progressiveness as a supposed counter to US influence.
From what I've gathered it boils down to yearning for a simpler past when food was local and better, mixed with some nostalgia for their youth, as well as a healthy dose of convenient memory loss of the surveillance state and atrocities of the regime.
My great-granpa was a poor peasant that could barely read and write and so were the other people from our village. He was conscripted into the army, didn't really have a choice.
I also remember talking to an old lady that was 10 year old when she witnessed the Red Army gather all the Germans in her village, make them dig a pit and then shoot them so they fell into the pits as they died.
Everything I Don't Like Is Bourgeoisie
"This engine is bourgeoisie"
XD
Also Katyn
One of the few eastern blocks that love russia still is east germany. But that also got ruled for 50 years like stalins wet dream. Cult of personality and indoctrination from birth.
I'm sure that if we keep following exactly the same playbook it'll all work out next time, though. One more revolution, bro. One more revolution and it'll fix everything.