To even suggest that a country is better off to gloss over Holocaust-scale crimes against humanity from their history is godless and shameful. Which you did in an earlier post by suggesting Germany is losing out by having done so and is better off being a historical revisionist like Japan.
Germany “lost” WWII and yet is the strongest, thriving, most resilient and innovative economy in Europe.
And I am saying from personal experience, I know the untold damage unresolved trauma and unconfessed crimes of history have on a psyche of a nation. I experienced it firsthand in Russia, which under Putin, has been undergoing a collective experiment in historical revisionism and “national forgetting” of unpleasant facts.
Its Russia’s biggest issue - the real root of what is holding it back from truly thriving in the 21st Century: its refusal to confront their history and their dark past.
And unlike Japan or Germany, they have had no Macarthur plan or Marshall plan to fall back on. And the numbers don’t lie: men have been drinking themselves to death for decades, the people are not procreating enough, domestic abuse, youth suicide, and divorce are even more commonplace than in the West — and many core institutions meant to preserve the social fabric are in decay. The list goes on. While time does heal some wounds and a few things have gotten better, it’s still a long road.
And yet Putin’s media wants to divert you away from the facts of life in his country and make you think its the West thats in disrepute and chaos because of “Muslims hordes” - when they (Russians) have the largest Muslim population of all.
You’re in a REALLY SMALL group of people here, if you think that Germany is just fine.
The funny thing is that I actually did agree with you until this Merkel clown opened the floodgates. A HEALTHY SOCIETY would have fought back like mad and stopped her before it got out of control. The US fights back, that’s what got Trump (the Putin lover, by the way) elected.
So, as I said - in 50 years, Germany will either be Islamic or have another bloodbath behind them. Neither will happen in Japan, just may a somewhat smaller population (and that assumes they don’t try to fix that problem).
Biggest difference between the two that I see is that the Japanese don’t run around on a guilt trip because of what their great grandfathers did./