Quote Originally Posted by Poopadoop View Post
Lol, "freedom party"



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Party_of_Austria

I guess that's pretty much all I need to know.
After watching Chernobyl (highly recommended) I started reading news paper archives from around that time, and it was just when Austria voted on Waldheim. During the campaign it came out that he was a much more enthusiastic nazi than he previously disclosed. Still won the election. Stayed president for one period. The blue party has a solid nazi past.
It just wasn't that long ago. Both my grandfathers fought in WW2 - for the nazis ldo. One of them was a socialist and listened to allied radio (punishable by death) so I assume he wasn't all that into it, but you never know. This is Vienna after the annexation by Germany:



Not everyone was there to say: Hey! Wait a minute! That's not ok.