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To: Berlin_Freeper

The problem seems to be that when countries, Germany in particular, are made to repent for decades, they lose the will to even exist in their present state...which is why they’re quickly transitioning to becoming an Islamic state.

For most of my life I was proud of Germany for forcing their people to accept the truth regarding what they did during WW2, while I was angry with Japan for glossing it over (to say the least).

Now, with hindsight, guess which of the two countries will still exist in its present form in 50 years (barring a new ice age or equivalent)?

So it’s not so clear to me that Germany did the right thing, and so I have some sympathy towards Poland on this, given the German experience.


5 posted on 02/06/2018 12:24:55 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: BobL

Has Japan ever paid reparations to China or Korea?


6 posted on 02/06/2018 12:31:47 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know saying Syrian rebels in anost back in Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: BobL
Was a time when Germany spent a lot of capital forcing slave labor to come to Germany.

These days, one can hardly keep people out. So yea there is that change.

Germany is the second most popular migration destination in the world, after the United States.

According to the Federal Statistical Office of Germany in 2012, 92% of residents (73.9 million) in Germany had German citizenship,[80] with 80% of the population being Germans (64.7 million) having no immigrant background. Of the 20% (16.3 million) people with immigrant background, 3.0 million (3.7%) had Turkish, 1.5 million (1.9%) Polish, 1.2 million (1.5%) Russian and 0.85 million (0.9%) Italian background.[81]


7 posted on 02/06/2018 12:37:14 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama)
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To: BobL

Japan has a lot of unease underneath the surface hence their low birth rates and impending demographic crisis. Not to mention high suicide rate. And the economy is less vibrant than Germany’s. And South Korea has outpaced them in tech sector.

I am tired of the Putinist sensationalism of the Muslim issue. Russia has the worst birth rates of all, largest Muslim population Europe, and the Muslims there do NOT have a birth rate problem. (Or alcoholism, or HIV, or abortion, or the mortality issues which are getting better but have ravaged ethnic Russians for decades.)

And you can bet ethnic Russia’s problem has a whole hell of a lot to do with properly confronting the traumas of their past and addressing Soviet atrocities.

Today Stalin is popular again. Russia’s economy is in stagnation. And Putin is set to be ruled longer than even Stalin was with no semblance of any functioning legal or democratic apparatuses/institutions to leave behind as a legacy.


8 posted on 02/06/2018 12:48:14 AM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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To: BobL

Not* properly addressing the past i mean.


9 posted on 02/06/2018 12:50:10 AM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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To: BobL; SJackson; Olog-hai; Mr Apple; stephenjohnbanker; SunkenCiv

The fact that Merrkel is a Globalist plant who brings muslims into Germany has nothing to do with Germany and the Holocaust.

Talk about clueeless, convoluted thinking.


21 posted on 02/06/2018 5:51:56 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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