Nor any other day on HN.
I said "all" as a way of addressing every commenter who was posting in this spirit—not just you. Your comment wasn't so bad, since you were simply describing your experience and your feelings. But it's the root of exactly the sort of flamewar we don't want on HN. The internet can't handle arguing about this kind of thing without losing its mind.
One time many years ago, as a much younger man, I received a parking fine for parking too long in a time-limited spot outside my home, having not bothered to organise a residents' permit.
Irate, I took it "all the way to city hall" to contest the fine on the grounds of injustice and superfluousness.
On meeting the municipal officials in the arbitration room, I protested "I don't understand why you need to issue tickets in that street; there's always plenty of parking available".
They looked back at me as the naive young fool that I was and explained: "Do you know why there's always parking available for you? It's because we enforce the rules."
Duly chastened, I paid the fine, got a permit, and received no further penalties.
And for the subsequent three years I lived at that house, there continued to be plenty of parking available.
Apparently as witnessed by downvoting, some don't like anyone to acknowledge this fact.
Also, please don't take HN threads into religious or ideological flamewar. Your comment doesn't exactly go there but it's a step in that direction, and we're trying to avoid that on this site.
Sure, if the Germans give it back to [the original Prussians](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Prussians), it would only be fair.
Let's put alone that in 89 it was USSR so Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, etc. all together.
In any case there were no Russian troops stationed in Poland. Quite opposite, Poland and its army was one of leading members of Warsaw Pact (the name, sic!).
So what does "occupation" mean in your statement?
Wheter it was occupation or not is debatable.
Not all protests, uprisings and revolutions are good. Look at their class character and composition.
b) As for 'facism': show me the 'facism' in the key documents:
HU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demands_of_Hungarian_Revolutio...
CS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_with_a_human_face
(yes, wikipedia scholarship, better sources welcome)
while I have no doubt that facists would piggy-back on to any anti-communist movement to seize a moment of opportunity, framing either of these as 'facist' at their core is at best poor analysis. Even hard-core bolsheviks would differentiate betwean 'bourgeois-democratic reactionaries' and 'facists' since being clear in distinction is necessary for proper argument/strategy.