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To: Reed Meyer <rdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: robert@xxxxxxxxxxx, freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: About Fascism and compromises
From: Dmitriy Genzel <udgenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 19:45:39 -0400 (EDT)

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> Nazi Germany and modern Germany are separated by 55 years of history.  So?
> The number of years between the two time eras means nothing.  Should we
> forget the slaughtering perpetrated by Genghis Khan because it happened in
> the Middle Ages?  "Oh, that was such a long time ago.  No one's around
> who was alive back then."

There was no Nazi Germany. There was just Germany. It could be said that
Nazi Germany is time-slice of Germany. That's not true for Rome/Italy.

>      Perhaps Nazi Germany will suddenly become "OK" when the last person
> born before 1945 dies?
>
> (BTW, your statement is factually incorrect, even if you're rounding
> off to one significant digit.)
>
> >> and Communist and modern Russia,
>
> > Um, we just have 'Russia'.
>
> The Soviet Union flag is still in there.  Half the protests stemmed from
> posting the Nazi Germany national flag.

To the best of my knowledge Russia (in Freeciv) uses its current
three-color flag.

Dmitriy

> ---Reed Meyer
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