History

well of course stalin did something wrong, he stopped at berlin

What is going here? Is this all post Soviet world building lore generated by nato?

History in the post-AES states is usually written by:

33% by diaspora Communities in the United States

33% by the counter-revolutionaries of 1989

33% by the narratives constructed by the pre-war military dictatorship

Interestingly, the anticommunism is usually some form of "the Russians were exploiting us and held us back", at least when it comes to Poland. The western bullshit like "Communism doesn't work, it means no food and no consumer goods" isn't used much, because it's easily disproven by asking any random boomer on the street - even though this is Poland I'm talking about, THE worst run European AES state.

Thanks all for the input.

As a follow up I'm in Latvia and I'm having a icky feeling that they are going to maidan their Russian speakers here some time. Just went on a walking tour and the guide was " need more Latvian babies Russian old people need to be politically trimmed,nato is saviour"

What is going here? Is this all post Soviet world building lore generated by nato?

It's that and the fact that the Soviets didn't go far enough to purge/reeducate Balts that were, at minimum, 100% fine with the Nazis. A pretty common pattern, actually: the USSR plays something soft for good will and gets smacked because the other side were unredeemably fascist.