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I am most thankful for all the bombs that were dropped on the territory of my country during the Nazi occupation, and I am thoroughly sad the USA didn't drop any during the Soviet occupation - the effects of that 40 years are prominent even today, maybe more so than in the 90's; the old communist elite had 30 years to rebuild their wealth and influence and they're trying very hard to get back in power, this time as "centrists".


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What tells you I don't show any concern for these people? I simply illustrated that bombings can be appreciated, not that all bombings are OK.


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If a bombing is what it takes, then a bombing it is. I don't care much what method would be used - of course I prefer the one with least dead civilians - but certainly what they actually did was not enough, and in result a whole country has been condemned to poverty and a mindset/life outlook so twisted, people outside hardly understand it[1]. Repairing the damage will take at least 30 more years, if not more; that's several entire generations of people merely surviving, not living.

I am not German, btw. I am Czech and I don't think Babis and Zeman are CIA operatives, but their relationship with StB/KGB is well documented.

[1] if you can find a translation of the movie Kouř, definitely watch it. It's an absurdist movie that is, at the same time, painfully realistic.


Ah, Czech problems. Yes, I can imagine its very frustrating to have grown up in such an environment, where duplicity and subterfuge were used to undermine the Czech people time and again. I believe we won't solve those kinds of problems with bombs, but rather education...


Today, most definitely. Back in 1946, the US army could've stayed a little longer.




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