Decades of propaganda saying that the US was responsible for defeating the Germans. Finally when enough historians and other scholars have weighed in and said, “really though, it was the USSR that did the most to defeat Germany”, now people say “well, it was a collective effort and no single country should be claiming credit.”
History is a science. Like all sciences, it uses the findings to reach various conclusions. At least you got historians that judged history based on actual facts. Over here in my country, decades of “historians” told my parents that there was a “antifascist uprising” that made the Germans run away. Everything to whitewash the fact that our last king was someone else than a womanizer who cared more about who was he sleeping with, and was still alive and doing mundane things like flying planes (yes, search for Michael I of Romania).
When communism collapsed, the same historians reached to the conclusion that “hey, there was no uprising” and rather everyone across the political spectrum was concerned about Antonescu’s erratic decisions and continued loyalty to Hitler despite the Soviets entering our country. So they allied with the communists, and decided a coup, flipping the weapons against the Germans. Meanwhile the Romanian delegation to Moscow was denied discussions for almost 12 days, conveniently enough for the Soviets to inflict some more damage, together with the Germans who were now in conflict with us as well (hmm, something-something Poland? Sounds familiar?).
Then the Soviets, in their characteristic way of letting others do the fighting and dying in the 1st line for them, decided to do that with us as well. That’s how both Hungary and Czechoslovakia were liberated. Of course they couldn’t continue with that 'till the end, since they were the ones that needed to collect the trophy, the big prize. So that’s how far they let us like that.
Back at home, soviets rejected every single government proposal that was not led by communists and where communists didn’t hold key portfolios (like Internal Affairs). After they got that, they did all they could to fraud the parliamentary elections, then flipped the results and got rid of all the evidence. So they installed a new government with communist ministers only.
But the communist historians in here never told our parents all these. :)
Decades of propaganda saying that the US was responsible for defeating the Germans. Finally when enough historians and other scholars have weighed in and said, “really though, it was the USSR that did the most to defeat Germany”, now people say “well, it was a collective effort and no single country should be claiming credit.”
History is a science. Like all sciences, it uses the findings to reach various conclusions. At least you got historians that judged history based on actual facts. Over here in my country, decades of “historians” told my parents that there was a “antifascist uprising” that made the Germans run away. Everything to whitewash the fact that our last king was someone else than a womanizer who cared more about who was he sleeping with, and was still alive and doing mundane things like flying planes (yes, search for Michael I of Romania).
When communism collapsed, the same historians reached to the conclusion that “hey, there was no uprising” and rather everyone across the political spectrum was concerned about Antonescu’s erratic decisions and continued loyalty to Hitler despite the Soviets entering our country. So they allied with the communists, and decided a coup, flipping the weapons against the Germans. Meanwhile the Romanian delegation to Moscow was denied discussions for almost 12 days, conveniently enough for the Soviets to inflict some more damage, together with the Germans who were now in conflict with us as well (hmm, something-something Poland? Sounds familiar?).
Then the Soviets, in their characteristic way of letting others do the fighting and dying in the 1st line for them, decided to do that with us as well. That’s how both Hungary and Czechoslovakia were liberated. Of course they couldn’t continue with that 'till the end, since they were the ones that needed to collect the trophy, the big prize. So that’s how far they let us like that.
Back at home, soviets rejected every single government proposal that was not led by communists and where communists didn’t hold key portfolios (like Internal Affairs). After they got that, they did all they could to fraud the parliamentary elections, then flipped the results and got rid of all the evidence. So they installed a new government with communist ministers only.
But the communist historians in here never told our parents all these. :)