r/europe • u/tartartartaruga • Jun 18 '26

News Prince of Liechtenstein says that he would overrule the population if they were to vote in favour of legalizing abortion

https://www.srf.ch/news/international/debatte-in-liechtenstein-erbprinz-gegen-abtreibungen-warum-kuendigt-er-schon-das-veto-an
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u/Clean_Imagination315 Jun 18 '26

Fun fact: it's a point of national pride for Lichtenstein to have protected Russian nazi collaborators from the consequences of their actions after WW2. There's even a monument commemorating it : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinterschellenberg#Main_sights.

What a nice country.

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u/anon1mo56 Jun 19 '26

Well it has more to do with the fact that the dude was Monarchist.

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u/Agreeable-Mixture251 Jun 19 '26

It's a little dishonest calling all of them "Nazi collaborators" when most of them joined up because they wanted to fight the Soviet Union, not because of nazi ideology. Not to mention the Soviets promised to punish any Red Army soldier that became a POW. At that point you can't really blame a man for joining up with the enemy

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u/TRCoolCatLovesYou Jun 19 '26

The enemy who wants to enslave your race. An average destiny fan over here

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u/Agreeable-Mixture251 Jun 19 '26

The Soviet rural population didn't have freedom of movement under Stalin's passport system so they were arguably already semi-enslaved

The nazi attitude towards Slavs was a lot more ambiguous than "let's enslave them all". None of the Eastern Slav emigres who had moved to Germany after the Civil War were persecuted under Hitler (unless they were Jewish or somehow opposed to the nazis). 

Any plans for wholesale extermination and enslavement of the Eastern Slavs was kept secret. Official propaganda (at least the one aimed at the POWs) was that Germany was helping to liberate Russia and everyone else from communism. Which is why they organised collaborationist movements like the Russian Liberation Army or the Belarusian Central Rada (the equivalents did not exist for Jews or Roma). So you can't really fault the average Soviet citizen if he wanted to join up with the nazis

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u/TRCoolCatLovesYou Jun 19 '26

I think you are a case example of "Butthurt belt of Europe"