We are busying ourselves with things that should be taught in the history books. Public expressions like this do little more than insult the current leaders in the nations in question.
China killed 50 million of it’s citizens. It’s a matter of hitory.
The USSR killed 20 million of it’s citizens.
Germany killed upwards of 6 million of it’s citizens.
Cambodia Killed 2 million of it’s citizens.
Turkey killed something like 1 million of it’s citizens.
If we count the casualties of our world wars, we could bump the numbers further.
I don’t think it wise to address issues from the first part of the last century by Congressional proclamation or public parades.
We have enough to deal with in the current time frame, that doesn’t involve distracting our citizens for something they cannot change.
Teaching accurate history should be the goal. Keeping things like this from happening again should be another.
I certainly do not disagree with our nation’s populace being informed via the education system. I do have a problem trying to fight certain battles 75 to 100 years after the fact in the public arena.
This is incorrect. I get the point you were making, but the difference between Nazi Germany and the other regimes listed is that Nazi Germany's ten of millions victims (including most of the 6 Mio murdered Jews) were NOT citizens of Germany but people in the nations conquered, occupied or fought by Germany. By contrast most of the victims in communist systems (China, Soviets, Cambodia, Vietnam) were people within the country.
with regret, i think that there’s little hope for you.
“Public expressions like this do little more than insult the current leaders in the nations in question.”
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Genocide is a sufficient reason to not only insult nations but to crush their nuts.
If you google "Germans from Russia" you can access a number of letters written from these villages to family members in Germany, Argentina, Canada, and the United States. They are extremely disturbing to read, mentioning these friends who died of starvation and that family that was wiped out by disease, but they are a part of history that should be remembered.
Joseph Stalin was a cruel and vindictive man who ruled with an iron fist. But he is dead and gone, and holding others (who weren't even born at the time) responsible for his actions is stupid.
During the War of 1812, the British burned Washington City, yet they are now one of our greatest allies. How would they react if we suddenly demanded that they pay us for the damage they inflicted on Washington almost 200 years ago?