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by dogma1138 2107 days ago
Continental Europe during the post world period until the late 80’s had terrorist bombings, political assassination, dictatorships and plenty of other crap going around, I’m really not sure what level of understanding people have of history these days.

70 years ago was just after Europe decided to murder millions of Jews, Roma, Gays and a bunch of other groups.
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watwut 2107 days ago
> I’m really not sure what level of understanding people have of history these days.

People go by what they gathered from movies and what their older relatives talk about.

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dogma1138 2107 days ago
Yeah I don’t know, Portugal was a dictatorship until the coup in 1974 which ended the Estado Novo regime and the colonial wars Portugal was waging in Africa, ffs you had European powers conducting outright massacres in Africa in the 70’s still.

And somehow today its feels that everyone thinking that the European Union was formed on Tuesday following the pyramids and its been the bastion of human rights and civilization since.

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