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« on: January 22, 2013, 11:13:50 PM »

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« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2013, 11:20:21 PM »

Which one has less skinheads?
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« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2013, 11:24:52 PM »

Eastern Poland wasn't founded on ethnic cleansing (or if it was, it didn't occur in the 20th century), so Eastern Poland.
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« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2013, 11:30:25 PM »

Eastern Poland wasn't founded on ethnic cleansing (or if it was, it didn't occur in the 20th century), so Eastern Poland.

Ethnic cleansing can be a great investment opportunity.
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« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2013, 11:32:07 PM »

I guess the Voivodeship of Iraq would be considered Eastern Poland, so I'll go with Eastern.
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« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2013, 10:33:42 AM »

Eastern Poland wasn't founded on ethnic cleansing (or if it was, it didn't occur in the 20th century), so Eastern Poland.

What is now 'Eastern Poland' used to have the largest Jewish population on the planet. I gather that this is no longer the case. Of course it wasn't the Poles that did that, but then it mostly wasn't the Poles that removed (in an infinitely less evil way, of course) the Germans from Silesia and so on. Pretty much the entire of Central and Eastern Europe was 'founded' on 'ethnic cleansing.' Thank you, nationalism.
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« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2013, 02:17:40 PM »

Re: Ethnic cleansing


And just to balance it out:
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« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2013, 03:48:43 PM »

The one that does not vote for insane reactionaries. Tongue
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« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2013, 03:54:59 PM »

Prussia.
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« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2013, 04:52:22 PM »
« Edited: January 23, 2013, 04:54:09 PM by SPC »

Eastern Poland wasn't founded on ethnic cleansing (or if it was, it didn't occur in the 20th century), so Eastern Poland.

What is now 'Eastern Poland' used to have the largest Jewish population on the planet. I gather that this is no longer the case. Of course it wasn't the Poles that did that, but then it mostly wasn't the Poles that removed (in an infinitely less evil way, of course) the Germans from Silesia and so on. Pretty much the entire of Central and Eastern Europe was 'founded' on 'ethnic cleansing.' Thank you, nationalism.

Killing half a million people is infinitely less evil than killing six million? That sounds more like a distinction of degree rather than a true moral difference.

(On a side note, not that it affects the morality of the argument in any way, but I highly doubt that the Jews were a demographic majority in Eastern Poland, as the Germans were in what is now Western Poland.)
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« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2013, 06:48:59 PM »

Eastern Poland, since it includs Warsaw.

Eastern Poland wasn't founded on ethnic cleansing (or if it was, it didn't occur in the 20th century), so Eastern Poland.

I'm not a fan of explusion, but you need to consider the time. After what the Germans did from 1939 to 1945 it was darn small price for them to pay. You can play high morality from safe time and geographic distance now, but you really have no clue. Also, using the term "ethnic cleansing", which is mostly used in terms of genocide, is rather poor, suggesting the Germans in Western Poland suffered something similar to extermination.

Also implying that Western Poland was German is only partialy correct, considering large number of in Prussia and Silesia, as well as predomiately Polish character of Greater Poland.
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« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2013, 06:54:08 PM »
« Edited: January 23, 2013, 07:27:03 PM by Northeast Speaker Alfred F. Jones »



Why didn't you invest in Eastern Poland?
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« Reply #12 on: January 23, 2013, 06:55:14 PM »

Aw, it didn't work. How do you upload images?
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« Reply #13 on: January 23, 2013, 07:07:18 PM »


do (img) and then past the url then do (/img)

replace the ( with [

it looks like your problem was that you started with an (img) tag and ended with a (url) tag.
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« Reply #14 on: January 23, 2013, 07:27:23 PM »

OK, I got it.
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« Reply #15 on: January 24, 2013, 11:30:57 AM »

The real question is, of course: is Poland in Eastern or Central Europe?
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« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2013, 12:47:26 PM »

The real question is, of course: is Poland in Eastern or Central Europe?

Is Warsaw Eastern Poland or Western Poland or Central Poland? Everything is a definition.
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« Reply #17 on: January 25, 2013, 10:39:44 AM »
« Edited: January 25, 2013, 10:42:29 AM by Gravis Marketing »

Eastern Poland wasn't founded on ethnic cleansing (or if it was, it didn't occur in the 20th century), so Eastern Poland.

What is now 'Eastern Poland' used to have the largest Jewish population on the planet. I gather that this is no longer the case. Of course it wasn't the Poles that did that, but then it mostly wasn't the Poles that removed (in an infinitely less evil way, of course) the Germans from Silesia and so on. Pretty much the entire of Central and Eastern Europe was 'founded' on 'ethnic cleansing.' Thank you, nationalism.

Killing half a million people is infinitely less evil than killing six million? That sounds more like a distinction of degree rather than a true moral difference.

Virtually all Jews who lived in "Eastern Poland" were murdered by the Germans. Special facilities were created to murder entire city populations of Jews. If individuals survived, it was because they escaped east in 1939, somehow eluded the Germans for five years living illegally (very few survived this way), or similarly were in the tiny minority who survived the camps.

The Germans who lived in now "Western Poland" were treated with extreme brutality and dispossessed, and large numbers were killed or died while fleeing west in winter. But the large majority escaped and started new lives in Germany as broke refugees.

The Germans who didn't flee in advance had some months to a year of Soviet invasion, immediate brutality, followed by dispossession and expulsion. The Jews had five to six years of German occupation, and nearly all were dead as a matter of policy within 3-4 years.

Both were "bad." But do you see the distinction?
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