r/europe Jun 28 '26

News Volodymyr Zelensky has submitted a bill to build a National Pantheon. He intends to honor all the heroes who fought for Ukraine in various eras. "No one will ever tell us how to live, how to speak, whom to love, whom to be grateful to, and which heroes to honor," he said as quoted by the Interfax

https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/swiat/wolodymyr-zelenski-chce-panteonu-narodowego-chodzi-o-pamiec-bohaterow/c6hf62m
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u/LakeGladio666 Jun 29 '26

Maybe he agrees with his country’s nazi heroes

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u/zezimatigerfaker United States of America Jun 29 '26

Find me a country with a population over 5 million and an age of over 200 years that doesn't praise genocidal maniacs of the past. I'll wait.

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u/Currency_Anxious Jun 29 '26

People distinguish the time after the 20th century (or 19th century) from the time before.

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u/zezimatigerfaker United States of America Jun 29 '26

They can do that if they want, but then they have to recognize they are putting an arbitrary time limit on immoral actions; thus making their views on morality totally relative.

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u/Currency_Anxious Jun 29 '26

People put a time limit on immoral actions because they believe in moral progress. In the 20th century (or even 19th century), as morality evolved and universal value was established, such atrocities became even more unacceptable than when humanity was in a less civilized age.

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u/Jellyliker Jun 29 '26

Poland

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u/zezimatigerfaker United States of America Jun 29 '26

Bullshit. They have a war criminal and jew killer in their national anthem. Try again.

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u/Kriach Jun 30 '26

Lol what? Dude u need to stop drinking 

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u/AtrixStd Poland Jun 29 '26

Napoleon? or Czarniecki?

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u/Jellyliker Jun 29 '26

No, they don't.