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Originally Posted by Breha
At first they were perceived as liberators, and doubtlessly many wehrmacht soldiers were there with the genuine intention of being restorers of civilization in a land brutalized by communism.
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In a way, not too different to what happened to Napoleon in Spain.
He thought that he would be cheered as a liberator [from the opresion of the ancient régime] by the Spaniards. He even harangued his troops with this argument.
But it was the Spanish people and not the official statements who saw him as an invader and rebelled, especially after he sat his brother on the Throne of Spain.
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
'Many people, I believe, wish for a society where faith, decency, pro-life convictions and national self-determination within Europe can flourish; and not be swallowed up in a dictatorial EU bureaucracy.'
–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–