Quote Originally Posted by Gilrandir View Post
1. Similarities between the Nazi and Soviet regimes are much deeper than the outward manifestations of them. Both resulted in millions of victims, only the reasons for killing people were different.

2. WWII is far from evil (aka as Gemany) vs good (Western allies and the USSR) fight. There were other sides to the conflict which supported neither or fought against both.
For the last time, Gilrandir. I accept that the Ukrainians are mad at the Reds and the Russians for stopping them more than once from exercising their favorite national sport, Jews-hunting. Yes, we all mourn about innocent, little Peltura and his gang of pure, Cossack-descended Ukrainian peasants, but what is done is done.
Sincerely speaking, vandalizing a statue of Lenin or a Red Army monument is a better way to honor his memory than comparing Soviet posters, coats and toothpastes with German ones, in front of what I'd describe as well-educated and critically thinking audience.
Quote Originally Posted by Gilrandir View Post
One more proof that there was no "good side" in the war. At some peroid of time EVERY COUNTRY/SIDE INVOLVED did something which doesn't reflect a great credit upon it.
The problem is that the bad stuff done by the one side is much, much, much more despicable and lethal than the bombing of Dresden and the rape of some German ladies in East Germany.
I get it, the collaborators and their national descendants are trying hard to distort what commense sense makes obvious to anyone with more than two brain cells, in a futile attempt to justify the lynching of Jews and the burning to the ground of Polish villages.

However, our education system hasn't collapsed entirely yet, so the majority isn't going to buy it. No need to waste our precious time discussing these matter, right?