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Originally Posted by bongodriver
When people suggest our Victory celebrations should be regarded as offensive to Germans it's easy to assume that said Germans forget what was really being fought against, so if the Germans feel so hard done by do they feel their war was just? the 'British' attitudes in regards to celebrating achievements in WWII seem no different to the celebrations of the USA's equivalents.....they just don't seem to be faced with the same criticism.
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That is your problem. Nobody ever said your victory celebrations are an offense to anybody. That was entirely your interpretation. What was said is that your victory celebrations are blinding you to an objective perspective. Once again you spin this into some kind of attack. With other words, you warp others arguments into an attack, for whatever reasons.
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so with that in mind, could you explain to me why every time a Brit celebrates surviving a conflict and coming out on top (with help....nobody denies it), fighting against a widely aknowleged force for evil, we just get labeled as Nationalist idiots with an 'empire mentality'
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No, can't explain that, because nobody did that but yourself. So you may want to ask yourself why you feel offended all the time. Now if you can't take what people say the way it is you should not wonder if those people go nuts eventually. And don't come up with Kongo Otto again, I am not him, neither is Stern, nor anybody else.
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With all due respect how is that achieveable without resorting to techniques that they were infamous for, we fought a war for democracy and freedom of speech, even if that means you choose to be a Nazi. can you explain to me what constitutes the condition for cultivating a Nazi (appart from letting the French humiliate them)
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The techniques used by the Nazis were neither new nor have not been employed later on by other nations. In fact, those means are still very much alive and kicking these days. Just look at the US and how Bush manipulated to the public into marching into Iraq. Or the picture Islam has taken in western society. Or more and more surveillance by governments to look after their citizens. Despite decades of Nazi docmentaries and debates the same things are happening right in front of our eyes with nobody caring a bit about it. So please do not tell me that using the Nazis had done naything so far to prevent developments the Nazis were famous for.
And finally, there we have this:
which is just the absolute climax of anglo saxon nations dealing with the Nazis. Its nuts.