• Pisodeuorrior@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    That’s not true at all, Germans make a big effort in remembering what they did and making sure it keeps being remembered.

    As opposed to my country, Italy, where the attitude after the fall of Mussolini was “uh, oh well”.

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      1 year ago

      Italians get the flair “side switcher” in the awesome subreddit 2WesternEurope4u. Probably the main thing I miss about Reddit.

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      1 year ago

      Let’s just not talk about it was very common practice for like 40 years after the war in Germany, too. But today it’s a totally different story (luckily). Can’t be remembered enough especially when looking at the political directions the western world is heading to right now…