Off Topic The Politics Thread

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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

  • Stay in

    Votes: 56 47.9%
  • Get out

    Votes: 61 52.1%

  • Total voters
    117
  • Poll closed .
I get things wrong all the time. I'm a big enough man to admit it. Thing is, I don't go round aiming digs at others claining to be the font of all knowledge, and belittling posters whos views differ from mine, and then cry victim when I'm found out.
You dont go around aiming digs? Who posted that meme? You’re as stupid as your mate SM
 
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You dont go around aiming digs? Who posted that meme? Your as stupid as your mate SM
And there we have it, your true personality shining through.

Well done, enjoy your day <applause>

Now who do I respect the most……a man who’s served his country through conflict, been there, done that and worn the T-shirt…..

Or a bloke who thinks he knows it all on a messageboard.

I’m sure others can make their own opinion.
 
Isn’t that the done thing ;).

Communism of course lost its way……dictators took over, subjugated the poor and took riches beyond their wildest dreams, killing millions on the way….but is capitalism any better ? Killed just as many I would think and created enough wars and dictatorships to suit their means.
I considered myself an Anarchist a few years ago and truly believed that kind of system could work….but realised that their will always be bullies and tyrants who make the system unworkable.

I wish I had an answer. Now I’m a wanderer trying to find a political home.
I couldn’t be more in agreement Staines :emoticon-0150-hands
 
The ironic thing is that it was almost certainly the grandfathers of his fellow Ukrainians who assisted in the murder of his Jewish family.

Yes, some Ukranians. You can apply the same argument to Jewish people living in Germany. Indeed anywhere is Eastern Europe.

Society moves on, but the Holocaust must never be forgotten.
 
Yes, some Ukranians. You can apply the same argument to Jewish people living in Germany. Indeed anywhere is Eastern Europe.

Society moves on, but the Holocaust must never be forgotten.

Of course not all Ukrainians Goldie. But the systematic slaughtering of Jews in the Ukraine and its neighbouring states during WW2 was aided, abetted and gleefully undertaking by a sizeable proportion of the Ukrainian population, both during pogroms and the Nazi Holocaust.
That’s an undeniable, historical fact mate.
 
Of course not all Ukrainians Goldie. But the systematic slaughtering of Jews in the Ukraine and its neighbouring states during WW2 was aided, abetted and gleefully undertaking by a sizeable proportion of the Ukrainian population, both during pogroms and the Nazi Holocaust.
That’s an undeniable, historical fact mate.

Millions of Ukranian's were murdered by the Nazi's and Stalin in WW2, Stainsey. The Nazi's wanted lebensraum, Stalin feared nationalism amongst the Ukranians.

The Ukranians that collaborated with the Nazi's bidding were a small minority, and many were under threat themselves from the German occupiers.
 
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Millions of Ukranian's were murdered by the Nazi's and Stalin in WW2, Stainsey. The Nazi's wanted lebensraum, Stalin feared nationalism amongst the Ukranians.

The Ukranians that did the Nazi's bidding were a tiny minority.

I tend to disagree about the tiny minority. Thousands joined Ukrainian Nazi militia (at least 280,000) and many concentration camp guards were Ukrainian (They even outnumbered the German guards at Sobibor by 10-1) And of course many who didn’t actually join those militias were quite happy to see the slaughter of Jews happen for their own gain.
Again mate, just google Ukrainian Nazi collaboration….
Of course the many Russians were also antisemetic and carried out appalling atrocities….another fact that should be acknowledged
 
I tend to disagree about the tiny minority. Thousands joined Ukrainian Nazi militia (at least 280,000) and many concentration camp guards were Ukrainian (They even outnumbered the German guards at Sobibor by 10-1) And of course many who didn’t actually join those militias were quite happy to see the slaughter of Jews happen for their own gain.
Again mate, just google Ukrainian Nazi collaboration….
Of course the many Russians were also antisemetic and carried out appalling atrocities….another fact that should be acknowledged

I did look at Wiki. Says 100,000 collaborators, some under duress or risk to self or family.

4 million Ukrainians were murdered in WW2, of which 1 million were Jews.

There was the occasional psychopathic Ukranian camp guard, but this has to be seen in perspective. As we know, the real villains of this piece were the Germans under Nazi rule.
 
I did look at Wiki. Says 100,000 collaborators, some under duress or risk to self or family.

4 million Ukrainians were murdered in WW2, of which 1 million were Jews.

There was the occasional psychopathic Ukranian camp guard, but this has to be seen in perspective. As we know, the real villains of this piece were the Germans under Nazi rule.

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Shall we settle on 238,000 employed by the SS. Of course not everyone of those would have actually killed any particular Jew, however I would ascertain that every swingle last **** of them is in some way responsible.
Wonder how many were brought to task in the Ukraine for their crimes ?