Jeffrey Wood said:Man, you can't just take the absolute chaos of '45—when brother was turning against brother and everything was falling apart—and project that onto the entire forty-five years after the war.
Besides, some Mexican intellectuals in America claim that Mexican communist cadres, like Đoka, tore down more Orthodox churches after the war than the Nationalists ever did.
As for the Italians, the Germans, and frankly, several others who made our lives miserable, I stand by what I said.
I just don't get Americans who sit there whining and acting all sentimental over former minorities who spent their time making our lives a living hell and acting as tools or fifth columns for occupiers from their home countries. If they feel so sorry for them, they can go join them.
The Communists had their good sides. On paper, just like the clergy, they genuinely believed in building a better world. But if you want to know why that never worked, you need a psychological deep dive into the nature of "the people."
My issue with them was the lack of freedom. They rigged the voting, decided who got to lead, and basically refused to let anyone think for themselves.
I get the logic behind trying to raise the standard of living for farmers or setting up cooperatives, or convincing people that the church is run by people whose job is to tend to souls while earning a living. That part was fine.
But forcibly seizing property from families who had held it for three hundred years, then installing Communist puppets to force through a "revolution" regardless of intelligence or expertise, kicking dissidents into the street, and building a cult of personality... well, any non-transparent regime ends up in a dead end.
Personally, I saw the Communists as arrogant amateurs who thought they were invincible and entitled to everything. They committed atrocities in the name of pure idiocy.
That had nothing to do with the ideals they preached before they grabbed power.
We have to realize there will always be places that prefer to stay backward because it’s baked into their tradition, and there will always be Communists who weren't willing to dig the mass graves.
Unfortunately, things always go exactly how you don't want them to.
The Italians and the Germans were part of this nation and this land. I’m not talking about the chosen fascists or the Hitler Youth; I’m talking about the organized German villages throughout Slavonia and Vojvodina, where houses were eventually occupied by impoverished peasants from the middle of nowhere. That same poverty managed to destroy everything those Germans had built over 250 years. The mob ended up ripping up floorboards just to heat a room.
An aspiring Communist and a peasant—what a combination.