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Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司
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« Reply #20 on: August 23, 2017, 01:34:57 pm »

Dear Tom,

     Not if one group were oppressing another group. Then the oppressed group might see the occupying force as 'liberators' rather than 'oppressors'.

     Thus, the few Jews who survived the Ukrainian and German 'operated' Holocaust in the Ukraine saw the Russian communist occupation of the Ukraine as saving them. Of course, losing over 90% of your community in 4 years can do that to you.

     While the Ukrainians saw the Russians as soulless occupiers, and had welcomed the Nazi German invaders as liberators. Of course, considering that Stalin had pushed through the forced collectivisation of the Ukraine's farms in the late 1920s and 1930s, causing the deaths of over 8 million Ukrainians (over 25% of the population!) between 1926 and 1938, their attitude was also understandable.

    Let's hope the 21st C. is less bloodthirsty than the 20th C., though it hasn't seemed so, so far. Roll Eyes Shocked Lips sealed
Best,
Joey
     


Dear Joey,

There is another level of logic to this:
When a country is under enforced occupation all inhabitants opposed to the occupation suddenly have something in common (my enemy's enemy is my friend).

Best,
Tom
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