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Posted by Mother Teresa's Lawyer on September 18, 2005 at 13:27:49:
In Reply to: Re: Your comments are incorrect posted by as are yours, sir! on September 18, 2005 at 11:47:20:
"Excuse me, why NOT? you do just the same when you go on to write the following -"
Didn't your mother ever tell you the one about if you saw someone jump off a cliff, that you shouldn't do it? Seeing someone else perform an action doesn't give justification for you to do the same.
"So WHY is it wrong to generalize to an entire group of people when this is what you do as well? What, this is a case of do as I say, not as I do?"
I didn't, I did not say "all Ukrainians" or even "Ukrainians", I said "many Ukrainians", which is certianly a true statement. I don't know the precise quantity of "many". Some/many Ukrainians took part in Pogroms against the Jews, you may read historical accounts, for example about the Odessa Pogrom in 1881, or any other number of others that took place in Ukraine. Some/many Ukrainians also performed as police and military for the Nazis, again stating the obvious proviso of "some/many" Ukrainians. Some/many Jews (as well as some/many Ukrainians too) took part in NKVD attrocities against Ukrainians in the 1930's.