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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (35 children)

This is insane. The Soviet Union had by far the biggest losses during WW2 in the fight against Nazism. Around eight to ten million soldiers died during the war, and if you add the civilian casualties on top of that, the estimates sit at around 24 million people. Many of those people were Russian and Belorussian. Let them mourn their dead. It doesn't matter that the Russian ambassador is a prick or not. I think it speaks volumes when the country that started WW2 does shit like this and it's not okay.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Russian representatives aren't being banned because of the behaviour of this ambassador. They're being banned becaue they are expected to misuse the publicity of an event where Ukrainians - the Soviet republic with the second-highest military and civilian casualties - will also be present

You've got two parts of the former Soviet Union fighting a brutal war against each other. You probably can't invite both sides to the same event and expect it to go okay. Which side do you invite? The one that didn't start the problem

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Look, the country that was putting soviet citizens in concentration camps and tried to starve St. Petersburg out doesn't have shit to say about who gets to mourn their dead and who doesn't. It's straight up disrespectful and definitely not Germany's place to say anything. Like honestly, what's the worst the Russian ambassador could do? No one is asking to let him hold a speech. So what could he even do that's so bad? Start a fist fight with the Ukrainian ambassador? Lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The country kidnapping Ukrainian kids while starving Kiev can go fuck themselves

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So does Israel, yet you don't see Germany making a big fuss about it. How come you suddenly believe that Germany has found its morals when it comes to Russia but somehow still lacks them when it comes to Israel?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

So should Germany make a fuss about both instances or not? You can't have it both ways.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Of course. Germany should make a fuss about both instances. Both wars are illegal wars of aggression. In a perfect world all conflicts should be handled with the utmost seriousness.

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