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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: DMaA who wrote (361072)4/24/2010 10:58:39 AM
From: skinowski   of 794094
 
The red troops had fire in their belly when it came to defending the motherland. Would they have fought as hard in a war of aggression?

In fact, many greeted Hitler's troops as liberators. However, the Germans kept in place most of the Soviet administrative structures, they kept the hated "collective farms", where people were, in fact, serfs. They treated the locals terribly, with arrests, deportations and killings at will. Soon enough they managed to convince the locals that they had no part in the long term plans of the new rulers, especially not the Slavic people. This realization was responsible for their famous "fire in the belly".

The Russians didn't quite see their intervention in Hungary as a war of aggression; basically, they felt that they "earned" the right to control East Europe. It was an additional layer of security between them and their potential adversaries.
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