Historians criticize Schwarzenegger for Austrian history gaffes

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/09/03/state1046EDT0051.DTL

Austrian historians are ridiculing California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for telling the Republican National Convention that he saw Soviet tanks in his homeland as a child and left a "Socialist" country when he moved away in 1968.

Recalling that the Soviets once occupied part of Austria in the aftermath of World War II, Schwarzenegger told the convention on Tuesday: "I saw tanks in the streets. I saw communism with my own eyes."

No way, historians say, challenging Schwarzenegger's knowledge of postwar history -- if not his enduring popularity among Austrians who admire him for rising from a penniless immigrant to the highest official in America's most populous state.

"It's a fact -- as a child he could not have seen a Soviet tank in Styria," the southeastern province where Schwarzenegger was born and raised, historian Stefan Karner told the Vienna newspaper Kurier.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. Let's remember: Hitler was an Austrian, not a German.

[livetohike]

2. "Don't know much about history"

To quote an old song.....

Arnold is an embarassment and probably 99% of the RNC delegates swallowed all the BS he threw at them.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Hitler, Stalin, what's the difference? Arnold's not one for fine details.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. dupe

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