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Are Germans going to pay for WW2? [180]
I'm busy, but in short words (there's a popular saying that I don't know in English, but it goes something like this: God save me from my friends, with the enemies I can deal myself)
Germans were the enemy, plain and simple, no matter how attrocious their crimes were, we didn't expect them to be friendly.
Russian,
initially, were not the enemy (and later, after Hitler's invasion on USSR they were even the alleged friends) who in their turn attacked Poland only 17 days later than Germany, when we were still fighting, with a sorry excuse of protecting the population of eastern Poland from them Germans. I won't even go into details of prosecutions (but everybody heard about Katyń, Siberia, Kazachstan)
They also used the opportunity that had presented itself at the end of WWII to dominate the whole Eastern Europe (Poland included) and introduced their terror regime (with falsified elections, murder, oppression of the opposition) in the region.
England (and other allied Western countries, USA included) were the real friends, who at Potsdam and especially Yalta betrayed us badly and like total wimps handed us (and many other countries) to the Russians on a silver plate.
So the still present sentiment of anger is understandable for anyone who actually studied the history and knows the facts, not some crappy version of history taught at his school.
When you're betrayed by a friend, you'll feel anger for a longer time, because you simply expect something else from a friend, while with the enemy it's clear.
But we (as the nation) only hate Germans and Russians, not the English/American :)
Some people may get angry with them, especially when they say we owe them something, but it's not hate.
