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4Poland also expelled persons deemed German: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…– phkCommented Sep 6, 2022 at 7:49
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4@phk There is, however, a large difference between expulsion of German citizens who lived in parts of former Germany that became Poland and between expulsion of former citizens of Czechoslovakia (who lost their citizenship based on their German ethnicity declared in a pre-war census) from Czechoslovakia itself. Your link mostly talks about the "Recovered Territories".– Vladimir F Героям славаCommented Sep 6, 2022 at 8:22
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I think the premise that Reparations are paid for actual wars is wrong. There are also reparations for colonialism and other damage.– Mayou36Commented Sep 6, 2022 at 15:00
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@Mayou36 Then they are a different kind of reparations agreed upon by other means. They can be voluntarily paid be a former colonial power to get rid of any future claims (sometimes as cheap as possible) or to wash to the dirty hands and get rid of some guilt felt by current generations in the West. There were also compensations to former forced-laborers for the German companies paid by a fund created by these companies. In either case, it is very hard to imagine such a claim from Poland to current Russia, not the least because of a complete lack of any sense guilt among Russians.– Vladimir F Героям славаCommented Sep 6, 2022 at 15:17
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1@VladimirFГероямслава, this is the problem. Russian leaders have no guilt because they have no soul. Russian methods for violating sovereign states were perfected by Alexander the Great, by sending domestic terror squads to other countries, followed by Russian soldiers arriving as saviors to quell the unrest and "liberate" the country (of its sovereignty). Poland, Czechoslovakia, and many other countries were ripped apart from the inside out by Russian-driven internal unrest. Latest case in point is the Ukraine (now for a 3rd time). Russian reparations are long overdue to Poland.– Rich Lysakowski PhDCommented Sep 8, 2022 at 4:43
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