Austria could have ended up divided by the Iron Curtain like East- and West-Germany, I wonder if you would view the Soviets the same way today if that had happened and your ancestors were on the wrong side of the wall.
> it didn't, that's the entire point of this counterexample
This is sort of like arguing Belgian colonialism was fine because there was one village they forgot to enslave.
Also, we were jointly occupied [1]. (Austrian-Indian American.) The reason we weren’t Polanded is the Allies, who controlled part of us at the end of the war, argued we were victims of Anschluss. If the Soviets controlled Austria, it wouldn’t have been spared.
> universal statement can be disproven by a single counterexample
Sure. Pedantically. To the extent we can say Belgian colonialism was great.
Saying the Soviets were fine is a stupid argument if the best you can come up with is Australia wasn’t fucked because the Allies got half of it first and then forced Moscow not to fuck it.
But it's not just pedanticism. They literally gave my grandparents their freedom. More than that, they forced the Allies to enshrine minority rights in our constitution.
> They literally gave my grandparents their freedom. More than that, they forced the Allies to enshrine minority rights in our constitution
And Allies gave others in the country their freedom. And pushed the Austrian constitution in other ways. What you’re saying would be like a West German arguing Germany was mostly liberated by the Allies, because they happen to be on the side that they got to first.
