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To: katana

I think the Greek side of genocide is downplayed because the Greeks could escape and their plight is more like an ethnic cleansing at the hands of the Turks (last one happened in Cyprus in the 1970s - so it is ongoing) but the Armenians had no easy escape to their own country nor could the west come to their aid - especially with the rise of communism in Russia.


9 posted on 11/19/2015 9:02:07 AM PST by Trumpinator (You are all fired!!! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!)
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To: Trumpinator

You’re right. And it’s also that the Armenian community here in the USA have done a better job making even the typically-ignorant-of-any-history-American vaguely aware of what happened. The Greek genocide was overshadowed first by the war and then by all the other post war migrations and “adjustments” in borders. But at least on the Greek side, for older people there I’ve met, the hatred still burns very hot.


17 posted on 11/19/2015 9:31:03 AM PST by katana (Just my opinion)
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To: Trumpinator

” I think the Greek side of genocide is downplayed because the Greeks could escape....”

Yeah, they only killed 500,000 to 800,000 of us during between 1890 and 1922.


54 posted on 11/19/2015 2:16:02 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen and you, O death, are annihilated!)
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