Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "The Cold War" channel.

@lukaswilhelm9290 It's actually the opposite. If you don't know the past you're doomed to repeat it. And it doesn't go away just because you don't think about it... People still have painful memories from that time, lives where destroyed... And that causes resentment... Only way to deal with that is to acknowledge what happened, apologize sincerely, and try to find solutions together with compromises.
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@rufuspanjaitan5759 Pretty much. Don't get me wrong though. There's definitely room for improvement here in Europe too. But some countries like Germany, New Zealand, South Africa etc all had pretty good processes to deal with their history like the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions etc... That said, even in Europe history is sometimes hotly disputed... We're definitely not perfect. But making an effort to learn and understand our history, both the good and the bad is important.
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 @rufuspanjaitan5759 Even a biased source is a source. I think it's probably better to read many different sources and maintain a awareness of that bias then to ignore them.
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@lukaswilhelm9290 If you try to hide the truth you just end up with it coming out distorted and doing even more harm. If you don't face it you're always going to have more harm in my view. And no, I don't think that you sound like a cynic, quite the opposite. You actually believe that you can hide things and that this somehow improves the situation instead of just making it worse. That's extremely optimistic in my view... And unrealistic...
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@aaronchan1498 No, you should definitely not forget. Forgive... You're going to have to forgive eventually. But everyone are going to have to recognize what they've done.
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@leapdrive "My Malaysia"? I'm European mate. If they lost in a human rights court it sounds like they need to do some soul searching. But that doesn't mean that you should hate them. This is so long ago now that most of them by now are people that wasn't born yet back then, and definitely wheren't old enough to make decisions or influence this. And even if they where old enough you have to remember that a majority of people have limited influence. There's few countries in the world that's not flawed democracies or not democratic at all. You definitely shouldn't forget what happened. But finding the truth and everyone acknowledging the truth is the best you can realistically hope for. As for transfer of land... People have grown up there with the identity they have. Let them vote. Just transferring land without a say from the inhabitants would be wrong. And yeah, I know that's frustrating sometimes. I'm Nordic. The Soviets took land from Finland during the winter war and the continuation war, but those landss being returned now would be problematic as today the majority population there is Russian, people who have grown up there. Likewise there's Schleswig-Holstein, that used to be Danish with a mixed German and Danish population. All of Holstein and a majority of Schleswig is now In German hands and majority German population. Schleswig or "Slesvig" was divided between Denmark and Germany after a referendum, after the area had been spending enough time under the Germans that most of them where feeling German by then. Land is lost. You may be annoyed. But in the end the status quo, whatever that may be tends to be better for long term peace. I'm not happy about such large parts of the Nordic region being absorbed by other parts of Europe. But I accept that neither are ever going to be returned, nor should they because most people living there would not wish it. And those who where displaced and live in Finland has new homes and new lives now. It might hurt to not be able to return to the old home villages and see where their ancestors came from, but it is what it is. Non of those lands where transferred in "just" wars. The Soviet Union used the pretext of "security" to attack Finland. Apparently the Finish border was too close to St Petersburg... And Stalin didn't want enemy troops near core Russian territory... As if Finland where a threat... And Society behavior pretty much guaranteed that Finland would allow German troops on their territory and would fight alongside them. Although they never joined the Axis or WW2 pr say. As for Slesvig-Holstein... That story is a bit more nuanced... Denmark was in the process of becoming more democratic and where making a new constitution including those areas within Denmark as well as giving them voting rights... Prussia and Austria where not pleased by that Unification, as both areas had a mixed population, with both Germans and Danes, making up different social layers... Nobility, urban population, farmers etc...
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@hazimamzar-qe2jt No, not every country... I had written basically a essey explaining why not, but it vanished while I was in another app on my phone to look up a source, and to be frank, I'm too exhausted to repeat that...
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 @scaleartsg You can cooperate while also acknowledging the wrongs of the past...
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@fernandocruz4877 What are you talking about?
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@sic7501 That's true, but there's no laws banning proper historical work there and people are trying to work out the truth... With mixed results...
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@leapdrive And that kind of sentiments is exactly why you guys should have proper history where you actually research what the heck is going on Instead of spreading half truths and outright lies...
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While you've tried to stay more or less neutral you're not quite managing it with the video favoring the US more then the USSR even if less one sided then what can usually be expected from people who could perhaps benefit from learning more about the history of various socialist, libertarian-socialist and even anarchist movements. Also, the leadership of the USSR where not socialist or communists, they simply used that as a pretense in order to gain the legitimacy needed in order to run the country unfortunately... I really wish that the Kronstadt sailors had succeeded in their goals... Real socialism and communism died in the USSR with their rebellion...
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I suggest searching for "No Gods No Masters A History of Anarchism Part 1 of 3" on youtube (then part 2 and 3 later) for a different perspective on this topic. Because a lot of activity that was in reality Anarchist in nature has been branded socialist at later dates.
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I suggest searching for "No Gods No Masters A History of Anarchism Part 1 of 3" on youtube (then part 2 and 3 later) for a different perspective on this topic. Because a lot of activity that was in reality Anarchist in nature has been branded socialist at later dates.
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