Reply #42: That's a historically horrible example. Southerners dismantled reconstruction and we had to go... [View All]

[JVS]

back 100 years later to fix stuff and it still is kind of weird.

I am much more in favor of the 1945 Soviet policy toward Germany (or at least their part). What had once been a ferocious enemy was molded into the most loyal satellite state that the Soviets ever had.