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[–] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I just did a count and 45 of those 61 voters came from countries that were at one point either Axis powers or Axis properties.Albania: Axis property
Andorra: neutral
Australia: Allied power but accommodated Axis collaborators (example)
Austria: Axis property
Bahamas: Allied property
Belgium: Axis property
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Axis property
Bulgaria: Axis power
Canada: Allied power but accommodated Axis collaborators (examples)
Cyprus: Allied property
Czechia: Axis property
Denmark: Axis property
Dominica: Allied property
Estonia: Axis property
Finland: Axis power (at least unofficially)
France: Axis property
Georgia: Allied
Germany: Axis power (obviously)
Greece: Axis property
Guinea: neutral (I think)
Hungary: Axis power
Iceland: Allied property
Ireland: Allied property
Italy: Axis power
Japan: Axis power
Kiribati: Axis property
Latvia: Axis property
Liechtenstein: neutral but complicit in Axis crimes
Lithuania: Axis property
Luxembourg: Axis property
Malta: Allied property, but once under Axis siege
Marshall Islands: Axis property
Micronesia: Axis property
Moldova: Axis property (kinda)
Monaco: Axis property
Montenegro: Axis property
Myanmar: Axis property
Netherlands: Axis property
New Zealand: Allied power
North Macedonia: Axis property
Norway: Axis property
Palau: Axis property
Panama: neutral?
Papua New Guinea: Allied property but under Axis assault
Poland: Axis property (obviously)
Portugal: neutral but sometimes accommodated the Axis
Romania: Axis power
Samoa: Allied property
San Marino: neutral but sympathetic towards the Axis (at one point they adopted fascism as their politics)
Slovakia: Axis power
Slovenia: Axis property
South Korea: Axis property
Spain: neutral but accommodated the Axis
Sweden: neutral but sometimes accommodated the Axis
Switzerland: neutral but sometimes accommodated the Axis
Tonga: Allied property
Turkey: neutral (until 1945) but accommodated the Axis
Tuvalu: Allied property
Ukraine: Axis property
United Kingdom: Allied but repeatedly accommodated the Fascists (example), despite being a victim of Fascist aggression
United States: Allied but repeatedly accommodated the Fascists (example)

You’d think that the descendants of somebody who presumably suffered under the Axis would have condemned German Fascism, but I guess not. If Russia likes something, that means that it’s bad, but if Russia dislikes something, that means that it’s good.