Schwarzenegger told the convention on Tuesday: "I saw tanks in the streets. I saw communism with my own eyes." Historians, however, are questioning Schwarzenegger's version of postwar history --Schwarzenegger, was born on July 30, 1947, ...The Soviets already had left Styria in July 1945,
Schwarzenegger also said: "As a kid, I saw the Socialist country that Austria became after the Soviets left" in 1955 and Austria regained its independence.
a law history scholar and vice rector of Graz University, told Kurier that Austria was governed by coalition governments, including the conservative People's Party and the Social Democratic Party. Between 1945 and 1970, all the nation's chancellors were conservatives -- not Socialists. What's more, when Schwarzenegger left in 1968, Austria was run by a conservative government headed by People's Party Chancellor Josef Klaus, a staunch Roman Catholic and a sharp critic of both the Socialists and the Communists ruling in countries across the Iron Curtain.
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