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Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]
Questioning "Why?" the differentiation is, with respect, as useless as, for example, asking a statistician conducting a survey on prison populations in the US why they differentiated between African American, Hispanic American, Asiatic American, Caucasian American etc people in custody in the USA when they are all Americans anyway.
Difference is, African American, Hispanic American, Asiatic American, Caucasian American are still considered Americans.
The "Why" is important because "the Jews" are made responsible for what happened between 1945 and 1989 because they were
"overrepresented in the communist terror apparatus" until 1954 as someone stated. It's a broad generalization, as you know, and its only purpose seems to be to distract from that particular part of Polish history. Propaganda. Real Poles cannot possibly be communist, it must have been the Jews and/or the Soviets. Roughly 50% of the MPB directors were Polish according to that particular source, and another 37% were Jewish. How many of the latter were Polish citizens? What about the years from 1954 to 1989? The Soviets were ultimately responsible for what happened behind the Iron Curtain, of course, but there were still 3.5+ million members of the Polish communist party - 10% of the population.
Do with them? In what regard exactly?
What I meant is that you can't claim that 3.5 million people were simply opportunists, Jews or traitors. That doesn't make them go away and doesn't undo what happened. Maybe the Nazis were also only opportunists and traitors, or the Chinese communists (when the Chinese system will fail one day)? When it comes to history, you can't just cherry-pick the great achievements of Poland's past and pass the buck if there is a stain.
From 100's to 1,000,000's in the space of a few years suggest the Soviets and Polish Communists were selling something in their doctrine that really appealed to all those Poles who joined up after WW2
Well, they were selling the same sh*it as the Nazis, just in a different color. Just shows how effective propaganda can be, I guess.
you identify strongly with your German heritage
Come on, mate, stop that nonsense please. I've explained to you a million times already that I'm only interested in the genealogical aspects of it, so don't try to file me under a category that allows you to close your eyes and abolish thinking.
