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Thing is, even if Slovenia *had* been part of the Soviet bloc during the Cold War (as opposed to part of a country that was a leading light in the Non-Aligned Movement, mixed economy, etc), would *still* have been immensely insulting & a huge gaffe to use the “vassal state” meme.
Can you imagine Hunt going to Estonia and saying that they’ve made fantastic progress considering that 30 years ago they were a “Soviet vassal state”? Less historically inaccurate than saying it in Slovenia but still insensitive, crassly insulting & a horrific diplomatic gaffe.
And that wasn’t the only tin-eared stuff in Hunt’s speech: wow, that smarmy stuff being a “fellow European country” and about Slovenia‘s transformation being “Europe at its best” makes my skin crawl and will have come over as immensely patronising and insincere.
