Russia and Ukraine

[Leonardo17]

That’s a shameful page in our history yes.
 
But look what the Germans are doing. I think denialism does not lead us anywhere. I believe in facing these realities, trying to understand why they happened and raising new generations who will not repeat these mistakes

(By the way is there a “smile” with less teeth in this forum?  )

What we did was shameful but the Germans are worse isn't a good argument or defense.

No, now if you allow me to speak openly;
 

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   In France WWI and WWII history is a very important part of the curriculum. They teach students about the movement of collaboration with the Nazi’s during the “Final Solution” as well as the French Resistance for instance. They worguanize trips to concentration camps and induce teenagers to reflect and to debates on some black-white pictures of the holocaust they are seeing. In the 1995 movie “Dangerous Minds” featuring Michelle Pfeifer you can see how the Character of Louanne Johnson (ex-Marine) is taking gang member Kids to talk with Holocaust survivors in order to have a better understanding of their own situation (race problems / Gang problems etc.). I saw video movies (as a 13 year old Kid) of the WWII atrocities, with very graphic pictures and all that (I graduated from a French High school by the way).
 
   In Germany they tell kids of similar age group to take a small suitcase and fill them with whatever is most precious to them as if they were going to a concentration camp after being ordered by Nazi’s to do so. They also replaced the name of streets bearing the name of major German Colonialist figures and replaced them with the names of African leaders who resisted to German colonialism.
 
   For information purpose: My government has rejected the term “Genocide” in the past. It did agree with the facts of mass-deportation, sometimes mass-murder etc. without agreeing with the term “Genocide”. (I’m talking about real-Turkey before 2001, I don’t know or care about Belisarius’s vision on that).
 
   So what I am trying to say is: You become stronger when you talk about slavery, racial discrimination, ecocide or for instance forced assimilation of native population and all these stuff. It’s good to remember these things instead of wrapping them under the carpet and to be able to say “I will do all that is in my power so that this never happens again”. That’s how I see it.

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