How did the European countries deal with decline from superpower

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Russia started its quest for resurrection of USSR

>>1111019
t. stormfag

>>1111026
t. john green fan.

>>1111013
>>1111019
Wouldn't mind some real answers desu

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>>1110993
in the Netherlands when Indonesia got independence the common folk didn't care

only the politicians and traders tend to care

>>1110993
Spain has a very interesting period after losing Cuba and the Philippines. Look up the generation of '98.

1: universal democracy arose in most countries and the working class didn't care much about losing the colonies

2: ww2 was a shock

3: new technology resulted in several economic "miracles" and recoveries

to put this in perspective, 20 years ago it was 1996, we had mobile phones and PCs, 1996 was 30 years after jet travel and color tvs became popular and 27 years after the moon landings, by contrast in 1965, the end of ww2 seemed like another world

>>1110993
They dealt with it by allowing anyone who they had "wronged" by colonialism to come to their country basically, and decried anyone who disagreed with that political choice as racists and fascists.

>>1111516
No way. That justification happened way after the fact, at the time the rhetoric was full on "they're gonna do the work we don't wanna do" still.

>>1111528
>at the time the rhetoric was full on "they're gonna do the work we don't wanna do" still.

Which isn't mutually exclusive with what I said. You can still be a bourgeois asshole, and still recognize that you have to "help the downtrodden" from your high horse.

>>1111544
>Which isn't mutually exclusive with what I said.
True, but this "help the downtrodden" rhetoric you think existed before the 90s in Europe is total bullshit. Don't make the mistake of thinking that just because the US had the civil rights movement in the 60s and all the hippie bullshit Europe was the same, we imported that shit quite remarkably late, because it required a certain amount of actual "differents" to take root in the first place. You had the niggers already, we didn't.