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Originally Posted by August

Like I care whether you're surprised or not. Given what your grandfathers did to his I think it's entirely reasonable that they remain suspicious and distrusting of your claims of rehabilitation for a few more generations at least.

Rehabilitation from what? Are you suggesting that being born to a particular nationality or family means you have to be "rehabilitated" or apologize for what other people chose to do?

And let's not forget, if you dig far enough, things are not entirely clean on any side of history. Poland - like any other country - has plenty of skeletons in its closet. I'm not suggesting digging any of them up, of course, because that's shallow and petty. Just like attacking someone who offers a perspective that disagrees with yours, but has always been able to rationally discuss it, concede points, look for evidence, and otherwise behave as an exemplary forum member, is shallow and petty.

Likewise, I can't claim to speak for a nation or group in particular, but it strikes me as rather vapid to constantly get on the soapbox and proclaim victimhood for the sake of shutting down everybody else. Who made you the ambassador of all the victims of Russian imperialism, and what are things going to look like if every one of us decides to randomly become the victimhood ambassador of their persecuted group? Being Russian/Ukrainian/German/Finnish in almost equal parts in my heritage, am I, for example, supposed to be in a constant state of demanding apologies from myself to myself? Or maybe we should just shut the forums down before one of our native American members (and I know there's been a few) declares every discussion of US politics to be offensive since it legitimizes the illegal annexation of native lands?