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Aussie105

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33. Before Putin in fact. Well before.

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #14)

Wed Jan 7, 2026, 12:26 AM

Jan 7

My parents left Holland 66 years ago, to start a new life in Australia.
One of the reasons was the fear of Russia invading to the west.
They lived through WW2 after all.

A predominant reason for mass migration out of Europe after WW2 to America, South Africa, Australia would have been to avoid the next one.

And here we are, fears of WW3 dormant for so long, with it about to happen soon enough.

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