What do Poles owe to Germans?

I hadn`t known it until you told me. :)
Thinking about it, I see your answer isn`t an asnwer either. Did you know about it? :):)

I simply meant that it's more than merely "unfair", it's downright, yea criminally, unjust!
Seems to me more a shakedown than a mandate.

No. If only governments were held responsible, do you imagine what mess we would have in international relations? So, communists took billions of loans. Who should pay them after the collapse of communism?

Who?? Those who were directly responsible for the theft, of course!

Can I use a quote from you?


hahaha

Whom else would you quote, pawian?

Look, can't see what the big mystery is. I steal your wallet and then YOU are expected to compensate ME for YOUR theft??!
Think man!

Typo.
"I steal you wallet and then YOU'RE expected to compensate me for MY theft?"

How about this:
US government lends a lot of money to another country. There is a coup de etat and their government is overthrown. The old guys have been executed. The new guys in power say the US can kiss the loan goodbye. . Will you be happy about it as an American tax payer?

'Course not.

It's stuff like this that gives coups a bad name!

This means that if the US authorities demand the payment of the debt from a country despite its government, communist countries had to repay their debts even after the collapse of communism. Isn`t it obvious? :):)

Sure. The Commies got duped twice, once by their own leaders, the second time by the new regime!
Either way, they got screwed big time. Obvious? It's as plain as the nose on your face.