As long as they were not in the Nazis' "don't belong on this planet" list.
As long as they were not in the Nazis' "don't belong on this planet" list.
Also, they didn't "realized" that Nazis were "just as bad or worse", they were on the losing side of the war (again, exception is Yugoslavia, although there was a Nazi puppet state in Croatia), and their regimes were subsequently defeated by the USSR, which then included them in their sphere of influence (Warsaw pact, etc.), and yes, from that point on, effectively ruled them (Yugoslavia had it's on independent dictator, Tito). But to claim "welcoming the Nazis to rid of Soviets" is just factually wrong. What is puzzling for me, is that all of this is readily available on the wiki pages of these respective countries. It seems that relying on "common narrative" is all too great.
They had no Soviets to get rid of by the time they welcomed the Nazis.