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**Slavic Italian** · 08-08-2018, 11:23 PM

Originally Posted by Peterski

Perhaps the ones in the east who never experienced how it is.

My ancestors in Prussia had enough of being German citizens.

I always had the impression you had a soft spot for the Germans.

**arkas** · 08-08-2018, 11:25 PM

Seriously though, what is happening in Hungary that makes them so unhappy?

**Peterski** · 08-08-2018, 11:25 PM

Originally Posted by Slavic Italian

I always had the impression you had a soft spot for the Germans.

Impression based on what?

**Dandelion** · 08-08-2018, 11:26 PM

Originally Posted by Peterski

Perhaps the ones in the east who never experienced how it is.

My ancestors in Prussia had enough of being German citizens.

True. Cultural aversions are lower to those farther removed from them. I don't have any Slavic cultural aversion, but I have mild Francophobe reflexes. Not too Francophobe, though. I'm cool with Frenchies in fact, but I'm not in love with their culture neither. I also value the more sober Germanic cultures more.

Yet, about Slavics I'm actually very neutral to positive. It's because I live far from actual Slavics and have zero memories of Slavs badmouthing Dutch culture. Sure, some Slavs lack tact when talking about Western Europe as a whole, but most Slavs are more Germanophobes than anything else when they get specific.

**Slavic Italian** · 08-08-2018, 11:27 PM

Originally Posted by Peterski

Impression based on what?

Remarks you have made in the past.

**Peterski** · 08-08-2018, 11:27 PM

Originally Posted by Slavic Italian

Remarks you have made in the past.

Quotations please.

**Slavic Italian** · 08-08-2018, 11:28 PM

Originally Posted by Peterski

Quotations please.

That has been a good year ago. Do not feel like digging.

**Peterski** · 08-08-2018, 11:29 PM

Originally Posted by Slavic Italian

That has been a good year ago. Do not feel like digging.

I don't think so.

I remember you criticized me for something I wrote about Russia, but not anything about Germany.

**Slavic Italian** · 08-08-2018, 11:30 PM

Originally Posted by Peterski

I don't think so.

I remember you criticized me for something I wrote about Russia, but not anything about Germany.

I thought you were kind of proud the Germans left the keys to some warehouse to your grandfather.

**Peterski** · 08-08-2018, 11:38 PM

Originally Posted by Slavic Italian

I thought you were kind of proud the Germans left the keys to some warehouse to your grandfather.

It was my great-grandfather, my maternal grandfather was still a child back then. They left the keys when they were withdrawing westward because they decided to let the inhabitants take it, instead of allowing the Red Army to plunder it. Most of those stored goods had been property of the locals stolen by Germans before anyway. So they pretty much just gave back what they had confiscated before.

But if they didn't do it, then it would have fallen into Soviet hands instead.