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Originally Posted by MB_Avro_UK
Hi all,
I regard myself as educated. I have a good university degree, I went to what is regarded as a 'good' school and I enjoy all periods and aspects of history.
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Yet, you don't even know that your country is indeed part of what we call Europe
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Originally Posted by MB_Avro_UK
As regards Cliffs of Dover, I cannot bring myself to 'fly' German aircraft. I used to fly German aircraft in il2 1946 against Russian aircraft online without a problem. Maybe this was a Cold War hang-over??
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I understand what you mean. I have very similar perspective on German / British people. I spend considerable amount of time in both countries and I agree that you are, in a way, very very similar indeed. This has nothing to do with today's politics. As for the personal feelings flying for the bad guys or for the good guys, we are spending our evenings in the Summer of 2012 by shooting pixels on other guys sipping beer in their living rooms, that is quite different to the Summer of 1940 and boys climbing in ther Messerschmitts or Hurricanes.
If I'd be having your kind of hard feelings, I would not be able to fly for the Luftwaffe, because these German guys split my country and as a result our pilots fly the 109s against the Russians, who I can't fly either although some of our pilots were good with their Lavochkas and also because they bloody invaded us later on. I can't fly the USAAF because they dropped bombs on us and killed our pilots trying to make them bomb somewhere else. I can't fly for the Hungarians because we had a war with them early on and I can't fly the RAF although there were also some pilots in the same time when the other ones flew their 109s and they were enemies.
As you can clearly see, I can't fly any simulators because of my feelings and I would be obliged to be shooting down myself, which is is very tricky:
http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/Tiger138260.htm