Todd wrote:

Here is the rub, when the Nazi invaders kicked out the
Soviet invaders, they were welcomed, as you say, with flowers.
Didn't last very long though. Eastern Europe got screwed going
and coming.

Depends. The ethnic Germans in eastern Europe were happy. If you look at an
unstable creature of the WWI treaties like Czechoslovakia, the German
citizens were treated poorly by the Czechs. For example, actual membership
in the Party was much higher in Sudetenland than Bermany.

Eastern Europe is multiethnic and the boundaries tend to be drawn by
politicians with no regard to long standing ethnic rivalries. It is
impossible to generalize any more than can you do so in the middle East.

Are you aware of the screwing, literally and figuratively, that the ethnic
German civilians in the east took as the Gallant Red Army advanced?