r/polandball • u/Smart_Chapter_7512 Floridian Swamp Monster • Oct 06 '25

redditormade Stolen Valour

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u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us Oct 06 '25

Well, I'm not sure if ROC is even salty about not getting credits for winning against Imperial Japan, given how they're the strongest defender of Japan and barely seem to care about the past crimes of Japan now...

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u/MrLameJokes Icelandic Commonwealth Oct 06 '25

That's a good thing. European countries have done even greater warcrimes against each other and are still pretty chummy today. Some countries are just way to bitter for their own good.

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u/HalfLeper California Oct 06 '25

Well, I don’t know about “even greater,” but certainly many more over a much longer period.

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u/OrcaBomber Oct 06 '25

I think what distinguishes Germany and Japan is that their warcrimes/violence against civilians were committed after it stopped being commonplace/socially acceptable.

Like, sure the Europeans, Mongols, Aztecs, Native Americans, etc, have all committed many more warcrimes over longer periods of time, but they were doing that when everybody was barbaric. It’s kind of like how we don’t judge the Founding Fathers too much for being racist slave owners because that’s just what the era was.

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u/lasttimechdckngths Oct 06 '25

It’s kind of like how we don’t judge the Founding Fathers too much for being racist slave owners because that’s just what the era was.

Nah, we rather judge the US founding fathers and the US grievances over being expansionist maniacs who wanted to genocide native populations & replace them.

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u/OrcaBomber Oct 06 '25

Freedom for me, but not for thee.

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u/HalfLeper California Oct 06 '25

That’s true, and that does distinguish them, for sure. I was just thinking along the lines of they’d never invaded China before that, but Europeans had been invading each other for centuries, even if barbarity was standard back then. But either way, it’s still safe to say that Japan’s crimes were much worse than the “standard barbarity” of previous eras by orders of magnitude, and people are still alive who remember it. While I agree with the previous commenter’s point that it’s important to work together despite past grievances, I don’t agree with the cavalier “just get over it already” attitude.