I did some research, looking for the Soviet propaganda ‘justifications’ for the military invasion and 1968-89 occupation of Czechoslovakia by the USSR & Warsaw Pact Armies. One of them was the ‘saving’ of Czechoslovaks from a Nazi uprising. Sounds chillingly familiar, doesn’t it?
The Nazi ‘uprising’ was fabricated by Soviet propaganda as incited by the West. I suppose it would have been quite hard to frame Czechoslovaks as Nazis when their country was ‘just’ occupied by Nazi Germany and CS resistance (e.g. the assassination of Heydrich) was noticeable…
Nevertheless, we see a repeating pattern that involves the ascribing of the risk of nazism to sovereign societies and the weaponization of the proclaimed risk to justify Russian imperialist invasions and the subjugation of the occupied to the superior Russian ‘brotherly nation’*
*the proclaimed threat of the West creating a rift between the so-called ‘brotherly nations,’ inciting ‘fratricide’ was utilized by Soviet propaganda to justify the invasion of CS - so let me add an image of what the violence of 1968 looked like and who actually perpetrated it.
It’s further striking to observe the repetitive pattern of how Russian military invasions of sovereign societies keep being perpetrated at times when those societies act on their agency and intensify their moving away from various versions of Russian regimes and coloniality.
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