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by inglor_cz 727 days ago
Yes, such is the nature of the world, that it buries horrors under layers of time.

In some ways, such healing is necessary, even though it comes with risk of repeating the same mistakes.

A week ago, I was in Zaragoza and there is a Goya Museum there. His prints of the horrors of the Napoleonic Wars are absolutely terrifying and ghastly. Today, the French and the Spanish people are on friendly terms. In a hypothetical world where the witnesses of such horrors still lived, those nations would probably be a lot less friendly and more resentful.