english: It was that you knew you had to, because, in the late 1940s, country after country in Central Europe was falling into the Soviet bloc, and so you knew you'd no choice.
non_english: Het was dat jullie wisten dat jullie moesten, want in de late jaren '40 viel land na land in Centraal-Europa in de handen van het Sovjetblok. Jullie wisten dat jullie geen keuze hadden.