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What is little known is the fate of fifteen million German civilians who found themselves on the wrong side of new postwar borders. All over Eastern Europe, the inhabitants of communities that had been established for many centuries were either expelled or killed. Over two million Germans did not survive
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Silly claims. Most german fled these lands out of (very much reasonable) fear of Soviet army. The numbers are a couple times smaller."I realise I hold the key to freedom,
I cannot let my life be ruled by threads" The Web Frogs
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What about the Volga Germans? Talk about ethnic cleansing...
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Bah, the same happened to Poles in USSR and they didn't start ww2"I realise I hold the key to freedom,
I cannot let my life be ruled by threads" The Web Frogs
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Still, it must have sucked to be one of either group at the hands of those lovely Russians...Long time member @ Apolyton
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All true and dandy, but where do you think the name of that ancient people "Prussians" comes from? Right, from Po or pri russians. By the way it is just plain silly to argue about a name in an unrelated language like English. Let's try other languages.Originally posted by Heresson
Your claim about Prussia's name origin is wrong and silly.
Prussians were known as Prussians long before name of Russia was created, and it was even separated from earlier Ruthenia (Rus) by Poland, Lithuanians and Jacwings.
In German, Prussia is Preußen, and an old name for Russians is Reußen. Strange coincidence.
The origin of Russia is Ruthenia, true. Now you might have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia. There you find, that one of the latin names for Prussia is "Borussia", and the other is "Prutenia". Another strange coincidence, don't you think?
Doesn't sound too silly to me.
To do bold assertions and call other theories silly without backing your own is just... silly. I am always open for a good argument and to accept facts. I don't claim that I am always right, and the theory I cited is not my own, it is just a theory. If you have a better one, put it on the table. "Wrong and silly" doesn't cut it, however.Comment
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Also, Stalin did the Volga Germans before the Germans invaded. If I was the leader of Germany I'd have invaded over that crime against my people.Long time member @ Apolyton
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Seems there are alot of Slavs in the world. Serbia, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine, where else?
Why don't they have a unity movement to unite under one banner like the Germans have, or the Italians?
Ethnic map of europe 1919
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That ethnic map sucks.Comment
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Ok.Long time member @ Apolyton
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Really, look at the big chunk of "Croatians" where there's a hotchpotch really. But then it's also a "racial map". 19th century pseudo-sciences
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Ahh, got a better one? How about a modern one?Long time member @ Apolyton
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Another one I found is similar to yours. It is very vague though.Comment
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It was an add on bonus to my post. Meant more to be the potato than the meat.Originally posted by Lancer
Seems there are alot of Slavs in the world. Serbia, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine, where else?
Why don't they have a unity movement to unite under one banner like the Germans have, or the Italians?
Ethnic map of europe 1919
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Hungarians are not Slavs.Comment
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Right! Russia's puppies... the Bulgarians are Slavs.Long time member @ Apolyton
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