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To: Cronos

And blacks suffered hell on slaving ships. And Confederate prisoners of war suffered hell in yankee prison camps. The past is relevant. But it does not dictate the present.

The Latvians sided with the Nazis to rid themselves of the Russians. Then they turned on their ‘liberators’ when they no longer needed them. That’s pragmatic. Marching with the SS right now, however, is not an alliance of convenience, it is an embrace of the now defunct SS’ ideology. And—yes—others besides Jews suffered during WW II—at the hands of the Wehrmacht and the SS, including Latvians and Estonians. It is an affront, not an historical pageant.


72 posted on 03/19/2018 1:46:46 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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Blacks hell on slaving ships is not relevant to the hell faced in central and eastern europe during WWII

In the Nutzi extermination camps you hadJews,Gypsies, Poles etc.

The Latvians are not marching with the German SS - they are marching with their own team who fought the svoiets. The LatvianSS did not commit the crimes theGerman SS did.

73 posted on 03/19/2018 2:01:38 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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