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Yeah, I don't know. Profiting by selling natural resources to the Nazis so they could massacre my ancestors doesn't seem particularly neutral. To whomever down
by yakshaving_jgt 7y ago
Yeah, I don't know. Profiting by selling natural resources to the Nazis so they could massacre my ancestors doesn't seem particularly neutral.
To whomever down-votes this: please learn your own country's history. https://www.thelocal.se/20120605/41252 https://www.thelocal.se/20120605/41252
- skinkestek 7y agoThat link was actually interesting. That said, as a non Swede I still think we should make sure we don't blame Swedes today for what their ancestors did - and didn't.
- yakshaving_jgt 7y agoI totally agree. To blame Swedes (or Germans, or Turks, or… most countries throughout human history) today for their history is pretty much the same kind of jingoism as English people today saying they “won the war”. The history of mankind is the history of war. It’s super complicated. We all should read about it, and try to learn its lessons. One of those lessons being to be skeptical of nationalism and xenophobia.
- papermachete 7y agoHow does iron ore help Nazis massacre your ancestors? Why didn't your ancestors pick up a stick and fight?
- yakshaving_jgt 7y agoWow. You have essentially just asked me why the Polish didn't fight back. This is the worst take I have seen on this website.
- papermachete 7y agoI'm playing rhetoric and you fell for it with the exact reaction I was expecting. Iron ore is iron ore, blame the ones who used its produce to harm your ancestors.