Scenes from Bucharest, in the interwar period

I understand that the situation wasn't entirely black and white when you consider the landgrab that Hungary and the Soviets pulled with Germany's support, the fall of France, and the expulsion of the British forces from continental Europe.

But it doesn't change the fact that your country chose the wrong side, went balls deep in more trouble than they could handle (cough cough Stalingrad cough cough), willingly committed atrocities against your own Jewish folks, and ultimately paid a terrible price for it. Afterall, Romanian oil is what got the Wehrmach and SS as far as to the Caucasian mountains.

As for Poland, she was just one of the victims of the Soviets' desire to create a large buffer belt between them and the West. It really sucked for the Eastern Europe, this I understand, but considering the national trauma that all the death and destruction of the Eastern Front brought to the western parts of the Soviet Union, it does make sense why they did it (although I still condemn Stalinism to hell)

Also, Yugoslavia and Albania liberated themselves from the Axis, chose their own fate, and later freed themselves from Stalin's grib.

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