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I understand this is very personal to you, but it's important to move forward. Hundreds (thousands?) of nations/people probably have all sorts of historical gr

I understand this is very personal to you, but it's important to move forward. Hundreds (thousands?) of nations/people probably have all sorts of historical grievances against hundreds of other nations/people - just look to Rwanda and the Hutus/Tutsi's for the most recent example. Also - it's important to understand the difference between a regime was has thoroughly been expiated - If you can't let go of your past, you can never have a future. The point that was being made, is that debt forgiveness after a war makes a lot more sense than debt forgiveness after a country has gone out and splurged on all sorts of luxuries. Even after austerity, greek pensions are greater than what some other countries can afford to give their people - prior to austerity they were way beyond the means of Greece to pay, and the politicians elected by the people refused to own up to this - and the result was a foregone conclusions that could have been avoided.

elorant 11y ago
Dude, we have moved forward. Millions of Germans visit Greece for vacations for decades and we treat them as we treat every other visitor to our country. Some of them even retire here. It’s not about the money, it’s about gratitude and the feeling of justice. We feel like the world doesn’t acknowledge the extend of the suffering we endured during the war. We talk about the Holocaust, and rightly so, but how many of you know the atrocities that happened to Greece during the war? I don’t expect Germany to pay us 300bn euros for war reparations. This is hilarious. And chances are with our corruption most of those money if they were to paid they’d end up in the pockets of the elites and the politicians. I just want some fucking remorse. It’s not that we remembered reparations when our state failed and our economy tanked. We’ve been constantly asking them for decades and they refuse to even acknowledge the issue. It just surfaced now because we’re in the spotlight.

elorant 11y ago

Dude, we have moved forward. Millions of Germans visit Greece for vacations for decades and we treat them as we treat every other visitor to our country. Some of them even retire here. It’s not about the money, it’s about gratitude and the feeling of justice. We feel like the world doesn’t acknowledge the extend of the suffering we endured during the war. We talk about the Holocaust, and rightly so, but how many of you know the atrocities that happened to Greece during the war? I don’t expect Germany to pay us 300bn euros for war reparations. This is hilarious. And chances are with our corruption most of those money if they were to paid they’d end up in the pockets of the elites and the politicians. I just want some fucking remorse. It’s not that we remembered reparations when our state failed and our economy tanked. We’ve been constantly asking them for decades and they refuse to even acknowledge the issue. It just surfaced now because we’re in the spotlight.