IMHO Any historical person can't be just ignored. Does not matter was they tyrants like Lenin/Stalin/Hitler or real peace makers like Ioann Pavel II/<you-name-the-others>.
Joerg, our grandpa's could been eventualy shoot each other 60 years ago, but for me that was more Stalin-Hitler war than Soviet-German one. Almost the same could apply to other non X-Soviet residents (with Stalin replaced by their local leader). My position: we should leave the cookies, but probably not include it to the set by default. 2005/8/10, Joerg Sonnenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:29:17PM -0400, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: > > On Tue, August 9, 2005 6:55 pm, Simon Schubert said: > > > Log: > > > Remove Hitler quotes. This for sure is something I don't want to see. > > > > > > Having entertaining quotes of somebody who was responsible for genocide > > > does not honour the gravity of the incidents. > > > > This sort of change should probably be discussed beforehand; Hitler is > > only the most objectionable of a number of awful people referenced in the > > quotes file. > > Actually, some of the moved cookies ARE CLEARLY NOT OFFENSIVE AT ALL. > To quote one of the removed cookies: > > Everlasting peace will come to the world when the last man has slain > the last but one. > -- Adolph Hitler > > (ignoring the spelling of the person) > > This is deeply ironic, but doesn't have anything to do with the history > of the quoted person. Would anyone really doubt that there is a big > grain of truth in that? For exactly that reason I object this chance. > > And yes, I am German and I object Nazism. But I hate how many Germans > deal with their own past, namely by avoiding it, just like I object any > foreign country pointing to a German non-senior citizen and talking > about that happend in WW II. > > Joerg > -- Dennis Melentyev
