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by chrisco255 2543 days ago
Yes and yet Americans helped save the Jews from extinction and yet they defeated Nazism and imperialism and held off communism and prevented South Korea from being dominated and won two world wars that could have ended in all of the Western hemisphere being conquered.

Of course, there's nothing black and white about history, it's all shades of grey. That goes without saying.
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danbolt 2543 days ago
If it's "all shades of grey", I feel like that leaves a lot of room for the feelings and discussion for how and what light they want to view their historical figures. I think "Never meet your heroes" is a popular saying for reasons like that.

I'm not American, albeit, so I might be missing something on a deeper level though. My opinion here probably deserves some grain of salt.

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rfrey 2543 days ago
There is only one nation in the world where a large number of people believe America defeated the nazis.
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chrisco255 2543 days ago
Yeah I know Stalin and the Russians had a lot to do with it too. But the U.S. fought on two fronts. As if the imperial Japanese and their slaughter of Chinese people was any better than the Nazis.

And suppose the U.S. stayed out of that war, what would have Stalin done with Europe, supposing they won outright?

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