It's commonly viewed as a puppet state of Germany.
Yeah like South Korea is commonly viewed as a puppet state of the US. It always depends on who you ask
I can tell you that the croatians did not see it that way.
The partisans were using people as human shields and they did not discriminate between whether these people were on their side, the other side, or anybodies side at all (some farmers in some villages had no idea what all this was about anyway).
Some act that are now attributed to the Germans were most likely commited by the partisans. They were violating the Haager Landkriegsordnung in so many ways and they were the ones harming the civilians most by being combatants that dont wear uniforms, hide among the civilians, threatened civilians into complying and giving them shelter, etc.
Of course today they are made into heroes, simply because they were against the Germans. A strange world...
The damage done to the former Austrian territorries was not just in former eastern block countries. Trieste is now Italian and that did not do it any good either...
Still, the eastern block countries did their worst. My father was recently visiting parts of Slovenia and the slovenian tour guide even talked about how beautiful certain castles and churches that they toured used to be until the communists plundered and destroyed everything. He also said that they are now rebuilding "with money from the EU". Now money from the EU means money from the netto payers like Germany, Austria, the norhern countries, etc.
So basically it is me paying for repairing the stuff that they stole and then broke. I feel like I am getting raped over and over again.
On the EU beaurocrats:
Well they are a funny bunch all together. They sit in their senate and distribute the wealth. The citizens of their countries have very little to say. Especially us Austrians have to "shut the frack up" and if we dare to elect a party that is not agreeing 100% with the course (which means we keep paying) of the EU, then they send us "observers" and impose all sorts of "sanctions" on us. The jews start whining and the US "is concerned". LOL
The really funny thing is when you watch these guys "work". One of the members of the senate recently exposed this quite nicely (and he was promptly expelled from the Austrian socialist party for that).
So, if the weather is nice, you wont find many of the senators present at the senate, not even for important votes. No, they are out playing golf, or tennis with each other. They just go there to sign off for their presence and then they leave to have fun.
You want to know my dreamjob (other than being a EU senator)? Being the secretary of a EU senator. EU senators have 200,000 Euros a year allowance for a secretary. That must be a hell of a secretary, I can tell you!
Now guess what? Most of the senators dont even need a secretary! They dont have enough to do for one! So some hire their children (one hired his son, a full time student at a university in another COUNTRY!) or their nephews and so on. And all that with my tax money.
Anyway, then we have these really, really awesome new regulations that the EU is giving us.
E.g. recently they released a draft for a new law that would ban "sexually discriminating" streetnames. So, e.g. in Austria there are a lot of roads called "Frauengasse", "Herrengasse", etc.
These names that were given to these streets hundreds of years ago, would not be allowed anymore and would have to be changed. You know what that costs?! I somewhere heard that we are in an economic crisis and that we dont have any money?!!
We also recently had to rename our company from ... -OEG (it specifies the type of the company) to .... -OG (also specifies the type of the company, which is now equal all over the EU). Why? Because the EU said so! Of course this too costs money, time and more money. Why? Why was this necessary? Why now when people really have better things to do?
It is insanity!
And this is just the tip of the iceberg. I am mostly upset about the fact that the Germans, the French and nordic countries have to pay for pretty much everyone else. And if we dont emmediately hush and happily throw OUR money after some lazy bastards in a rotten country somewhere, we are emmediately bashed by the whole world (including the US). They call us "uneuropean" and news media are "concerned about Germany". And some even evoke the Nazis again, just to remind us that we have to rubb our bloody faces in the dust for all eternity for that.
So yeah, I am not too keen of the EU.