Schwarzenegger criticized for Austrian history gaffes

[Right Makes Might]

VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- 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.

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But Martin Polaschek, a law history scholar and vice rector of Graz University, told Kurier that Austria was governed by coalition governments, including the conservative People's Party and the Social Democratic Party. Between 1945 and 1970, all the nation's chancellors were conservatives -- not Socialists.

What's more, when Schwarzenegger left in 1968, Austria was run by a conservative government headed by People's Party Chancellor Josef Klaus, a staunch Roman Catholic and a sharp critic of both the Socialists as well as the Communists ruling in countries across the Iron Curtain.

Schwarzenegger "confuses a free country with a Socialist one," said Polaschek, referring to East European Communist officials' routine descriptions of their countries as Socialist.

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[K-W]

1. His story was a total fairy tale.

A commie bashing, conservative praising, fairy tale.

[ronnykmarshall]

2. Just like a repug

change history to fit you agenda.

aka LIE!

[kerry-is-my-prez]

3. More lies from the Republican Convention. From the "LIARS" Party.

n/t

[AP]

4. Another CA actor-politician used to do the same thing.

Ronnie used to tell stories about his past which weren't true.