Who Killed Janko?

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It seems that no-one told them they had a choice.

I recently watched archive footage of American soldiers painting ribald slogans on bombs destined to Japanese cities...did they have a choice?
The same kind of movies are probably shown at veterans' conventions, where people covered in medals drink champagne while publishers wait for their turn to publish the diaries of the "hero who fought the Huns", "Asian peril" etc.
If a 90yo Axis veteran would show similar footage, he'd probably be persecuted as "criminal against mankind" and "atrocity avenging commandos" would raid his home...
Explain this to me please.

True to their Italian roots, the Romanians switched sides more times in each world war than did the Italians in WWII.

That's "having the choice" you referred to earlier, isn't it? But none thinks much of turncoats even if they come handy at times, eh?

It is generally accepted that until 1943 (4 years into the war ) armed dissent was scant (even in occupied France)...it seems the moral compass of all those democracy-loving masses took a while to turn on, eh?
When it did (in Italy for example), it was heavily subsidized with English moolah...when gen. Alexander stopped the cash flow for a while, 'freedom fighters' dropped in number by 50% over a few weeks...
Mitterrand, D'Estaing and other future prominent French statesmen ALL took part in Vichy's government and/or (like Mitterrand) were awarded the FRANCISQUE (the double axe emblem of the Vichy government) medal.
Jewish scholar/activist Pierre Bloch 'covered up' for Mitterrand claiming Pierre Bloch had advised him to seek that recognition to better conceal his hatred of fascism as the ardent freedom fighter that he was.
Francisque could only be awarded by either the head of State (Pétain) or by a council of eminent patriots.

What if Germany had won?
Well, I watched a film in which surviving Italians from a village Americans bombed into oblivion actually welcomed and cheered the surviving crewmembers of the party that had obliterated their village...

It is also known that spin doctors (advising for example president Wilson ) suggested the whole 'fighting for freedom, not power' angle...oddly enough, the Japanese used the same approach in the lands they occupied in Asia and -hear hear!- the British were the ones behind Arab nationalism they funded and encouraged during WWI.
Can you explain this to me please?