PolandIsAStateOfMind

I remember PM Cyrankiewicz having a Cassandra-Stalin moment and saying that for once we are in alliance with the people of both Russia and Germany but if socialism would be gone we would immediately be dependant on Germany and enemies with Russia. And lo and behold. No wonder current historical revisionists hate him so much they stole his heroic stance during WW2 and put it on a fash like Pilecki.

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views the Baltic and Polish people as meat shields for Western Europe

To be fair, this is a point of view shared and very often consciously, by every Polish government since 1989

"Russia bad, keeps people in military for all year while Ukraine only for month."

given what the guards knew at the time.

I mean they were correct, Yekaterinburg was surrounded and did fell less than week later.

In China though Puyi had already been overthrown once

Twice actually, there was restoration attempt in 1917 which immediately failed and only proven how incredibly unpopular he and his dynasty was. Unlike Romanovs which had entire armies of more or less honest followers, nobody in China wanted Qing back.

On the other hand, China reforming Puyi is an extremely powerful argument against murdering the old regime, so your certainly have options.

To be fair, China had the luxury of having him safely in hands for years. Romanovs were few days of being freed by whiteguard army. Soviets did not had options.

She really passed the nickname check, but for real name.

It is as if your only source on Chechenya was a wiki article about it. How nice of you to call unprecedented era of people and advancement during USSR as part of "Russian Subjugation". Origins of "independent" Chechenya is a coup against its pro-soviet leadership (Checheno-Ingush ASSR under their leader Doku Zavgayev supported the opposition against Yeltsin and the illegal dissolution of USSR). Coup was armed and violent, with murders of communists. New regime was also dumb as hell and do stupid things just for the sake of hating Russia (like adopting latin alphabet). It also wasn't popular, Ingushetia seceded from them and joined the RF, there were also many attempts to depose them, including from their own parliment (govt was in reality just a prowestern military clique). I wouldn't be surprised at all if US immediately started their good old "muslim extremist terrorism" routine (also how many of Chechens later surfaced as members of various pro-US terrorist groups), help by the incredibly indolent actions of Yeltsin, like assassination fo Dudayev which paved the way for really evil fuckers to take the power there.

Even if you look at the history of last century there, Chechens were always divided people. October Revolution, WW2, destruction of USSR, Chechen Wars, current war. And sure as hell the current state of Chechenya is far removed from the worst possible option. Calling Kadyrov "pro-Putin puppet that some Chechens hate" also seems straight up from stormfrontpedia, guy is way more legal than any Chechen leader since Zavgayev and also seems to have more public support than any of them.

while the war has definitely been more 2 sided than expected

Depend by whom. Ukrainian army was probably the second strongest army in Europe in 2022, they have been building up greatly since 2014 and was armed by NATO. Ever since the 2022 escalation they lost and rebuild their army 2 times and NATO countries were even stripping their own line units to arm AFU. So not counting soldiers (and even that can be arguable as a lot of foreign mecenaries and "volunteers" were and still are there, and i'm not talking about reddit cannon fodder but possibly even regular forces) it is two sided war because one side is Ukraine+NATO.

Ukraine also drone striked Chechenya lately, i bet this will really discourage Chechens who were per capita most numerous volunteers to that war.

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