Wow, well, that's the most disgusting thing I've heard all week.
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I can top that. In an abstract way, I think (for some countries) being pressed into the Communist Block for two generations was a somewhat fair consequence for making it easy for the Nazis to carry out the Final Solution.
Look at Denmark for contrast: From the top down, when the Nazis tried to collect Jewish people, the Danes resisted and got results.
In Poland and Ukraine et al, there are too many tales of local collaboration/support for Nazi genocidal efforts, of Jews trying to return to their homes in Poland after WW2 and being greeted with howls of dismay that they hadn't been killed, etc. et al.
Do I think the Berlin Wall was righteous? No. The USSR was an evil empire, Reagan was right about that.
For whatever it's worth, I admire how Germany has openly taken measures to account for what was done in WW2, and how they've pulled themselves into being a global example of how a nation can treat its people and its neighbors.
And, in an abstract philosophical view, I think being rendered in two and being half-occupied by the empire that lost twenty million of its own people makes a kind of sense.