alt Hacker NewsMost Eastern European people I know have long associated the US with calamities such as the bombing of civilians in Belgrade.
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tliltocatl • last Saturday at 9:48 AM
The image of the good guy USA had (at least in eastern Europe) has less to do with how they treated other countries and more with how they treated their own citizens.
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In the former Yugoslavia maybe. But in the former USSR and Warsaw Pact countries, that isn’t even remotely true. The US was critical in supporting anti-USSR resistance, either directly with money or symbolically (“Tear down this wall”)