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This looks like a case of violence vs. prejudice.PeroK said:Anyone who participated in these atrocities must be over 90 years old now. Why must Ukrainians of all ages be bombed? How will the cycle of violence in human society ever end if you are intent on revenge on the children and grandchildren of those who committed crimes in the past?
The world is trying to move on but is being dragged back by insane ideas that we are still fighting WWII.
Look, in my country roughly 1/3 of men of military age fought on Red Army side - few as volunteers, mostly as draftees - and twice as much on the German side... many draftees and many volunteers. But they joined when there was imminent threat of Reds coming back, not to favour Nazi cause. Many fled to Finland so they could fight against Reds but under a democratic government they liked, not under a foreign rule they had good reasons to resent.
And when the children and grandchildren of the men who fought on the Nazi side, and indeed the children and grandchildren of the men who fought on the Red side are, oh, not bombed, not shot, not imprisoned, but bullied for "their people being on the wrong side", it causes resentment. Some people will resist the bullying... which just confirms the prejudice.
And some interpret the ambiguous evidence to show that their grandfathers were indeed right to fight on the Nazi side... which again confirms the prejudice.