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Prediction Thread: When Will Ukraine Conquer Russia
Oh yes...we should never forget, Those lessons were to hard and should never be forgotten. I believe that is the attitude of Germany's government and people as well. Holding a grudge and judging people by a past they have rejected is both unfair and counterproductive. I did not say "forgive and forget". I said reconciliation and finding common ground based in shared values is the key.
But we do agree that those times and their horror should never be forgotten.
"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003
it killed a hundred germans and a full load of armor and weapons
the nazis/germasns got him and tortured him to death
but before he died they released him and got him back to his mother to watch him die
My name is not the same as his, but my grandma always was saying that I am as tall and as proud as my great uncle that the gestapo tortuted to death becasue he was defending his family
During the American Civil War the Union army burned my Great-Great Grandfather's house, murdered him in front of his wife, raped her and his daughter, beat my teenage Great Grandfather, and stole everything of value they had. (For the record...they were NOT slaveholders...just Farmers. They had no involvement in the war) Do I look at everyone from the Northern U.S. in a vile light? Of course not. Was it a horror that should never be repeated? Of course it shouldn't. My family has never forgotten, but we are all part of the same country. I do not hold it against people what their ancestors did. I judge the person before me for who they are. That is moving on. Maybe it is just to early...maybe that horror was to close in time. I know my Grandfather never said "Yankee" without putting the word "Da mn" in front of it. History teaches us harsh lessons, but it is up to us what we do with them. I can say this...I truly do sympathize with the loss your family experienced. The challenge for the following generations is to ensure it does not happen again. To ultimately make sure of that we must find common ground. That doesn't mean to forget or forgive...it just means looking for a better future for all.
"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003
actually the history of the US and Greece has many MANY common aspects
many of the most fervent philellines, friends of Greece were americans in the 1800s
I have nothing but great respect and fondness for Greeks. Amazing people and an amazing country. I had the opportunity many years ago to work for a second generation Greek family owned business. They were some of the kindest people and best business persons I have ever worked for. The Church they attended (Greek Orthodox of course!) had a festival every year where there was some incredible food. They always brought some to the office so that all could share in it. I am pretty "American" in my food taste, but the food was wonderful beyond compare! They went back to Greece every other year and always came back with pictures and stories. Fantastic people and representatives of Greece.
"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003
Tamsin (Lost Girl): "I am the Harbinger of Death. I arrive on winds of blessed air. Air that you no longer deserve." Tamsin (Lost Girl): "He has fallen in battle and I must take him to the Einherjar in Valhalla"
I respect beyond words that you shared that story with me.
You know we only know what hollywood tells us, and that is a very different story.
I bow my head and have nothing to say to what you told me
I only ask for a bit lenience because I will say this:
you were the same country. We were invaded by a foreign country
But I do hear what you say
Never shared that with Poly before. I have to say that being raised in the South in the 1960s had a very...let's say tainted...point of view. People sharing detailed knowledge here on Poly brought a lot of clarity and change to many things I grew up being told were fact but actually were distortions. It made me realize that we cannot take all "facts" at face value. We must look deeper into things for ourselves. Tragedy happens and horrors are part of the human condition. It is how we face the future while armed with the knowledge of the past that makes us advance as a people. I will never forgive what was done to my family, but I will look to the future. I will judge people on how they are now...not how their parents or grandparents...or great great grandparents were. I will look for truth and not believe the masses. I will seek what is and what motivations are. I will stand for a brighter future in a world where aggressors are confronted and realize that people can change.
I like you BE. You seem to be an honest person who stands by their beliefs. That is a rarity in this world.
"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003
Boris Johnson says he had an "extraordinary" call with President Putin before the Ukraine invasion.
"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003
I've always had a very simplistic, partisan view of the war of Southern secession. I regarded the side that declared in all of the written instruments and declarations of secession that the threat to slavery was the first justification for fighting to secede had to be the "bad guys". Plato's posts remind me that even if, after the fact, we can clearly see that the aims of one side of a conflict were more objectionable than the other, there is never a limit to how much evil can be found on any side of a war.
The US was lucky that a kind of unity was eventually returned to a deeply divided population decades after the guns went silent. The hatred and resentment was slow to cool because the trauma could never really heal, only recede into the past.
If Ukraine was in some places ambivalent about unity with Russia before Feb 2022, Russia has probably managed to replace such ambivalence with hatred of Russia and love of Ukraine nearly everywhere they occupied in Ukraine last year. I don't think hatred will dissipate until this entire generation and their children and grandchildren and every family member who heard the accounts first hand has finally passed away.
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