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The difference between Eastern Europe and some parts of Africa is that there were no apologies or reparations of any kind until now. https://en.wikipedia.org/w
by dependsontheq 5y ago
The difference between Eastern Europe and some parts of Africa is that there were no apologies or reparations of any kind until now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_reparations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_reparations
- filleduchaos 5y agoMost people whose hackles rise at the sheer sight of the word "reparations" are strangely okay with (or more cynically, completely oblivious about) how much Germany had to pay for both world wars.
- benjohnson 5y agoBecause they were caught in the act as they were doing it.
- zpeti 5y agoI’m sorry how does Germany ceding territory and paying reparations to the Soviet Union help any current Eastern European country? Not to mention my post was also about mongols, ottomans, and Soviet occupations.
- hnbad 5y agoHow does anything you said contradict the idea that the descendants of the survivors of Germany's genocide in Namibia should at least receive a genuine apology if Germany wants to account for past crimes its legal predecessor committed and benefited from? We can talk about other incidents you think are similar in nature and how we should deal with those. Multiple things can be bad at the same time. Can you be any more precise than "the Mongols" and "the Soviets"? Which incidents would you like to talk about, who were the victims, what was done to them, who did it and who today do you think benefits/suffers from what happened?
- Bancakes 5y agoThe people who were supposed to apologise are not in power.