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Originally Posted by CCIP
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Originally Posted by Happy Times
about Russias lack of condemnation of USSRs crimes, in one sentence.
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What other condemnation do you need, for crying out loud? Maybe they should apologize for fighting Germany, too?
What do modern Russians have to do with this? Even Mr. Putin was born after WWII. This is history. This has been acknowledged, now let's stop dishonoring it and pestering today's Russians over it.
I don't care about the "special nature". The US can say lots of things; I see 27,000,000 dead Soviet citizens in World War II. And I think they're rolling over in their mass graves from these kinds of gestures. I understand the Estonians had it hard; but that doesn't excuse their contribution to the Nazi war plan. Again, "tragedy of small nations" is my explanation, and I sympathise with this. But one atrocity doesn't automatically cancel out another. You can join the Waffen SS with your "special nature", and you're still in the Waffen SS to me. |
So Estonia lost more people of its population in proportion than USSR but thats just part of the "tragedy of small nations". Do you understand how that sounds? Why wouldnt the Balts joined the Germans in 1941? They were under Soviet occupation, trains leaving to Siberia with whole families, when they came.
So Russia honors all the "good history" that USSR left but not the ugly? How come Germans born after the war cant pick and choose their heritage? Is it their burden to carry? Just admit that you want to exercise the "winners" right to write history as you see fit.