The Horrors of Communism: A Timely and Necessary Reminder

Century horrors Europe unleashed upon the world, the vast majority of the continent experienced all or part of them.

This experience of Eastern Europe's suffering under an externally imposed and martially enforced totalitarian, communist regime; and these occupied nations' miraculous emancipation from it has hardened their conviction to never, ever allow a revanchist communism to subjugate their once again free peoples.

In essence, for Eastern Europe their former occupation and emancipation constitutes a painful lesson taken to heart that instructs their present and future policies, both foreign and domestic.

For a multiplicity of reasons and instances, Western Europe receives far less from the emancipated Eastern Europe.

The latent effect was that, for decades, both Western and Eastern Europe thought of themselves as distinct entities with different existential aims.

Subjugated Eastern Europe's sole goal was to shake off the soul crushing yoke of Soviet socialism.

While usually latent, this difference rises to the fore in times of crisis; and it manifests itself in Western Europe's paternalistic, patronizing attitude to Eastern Europe.

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