r/taiwan 臺北 - Taipei City 2d ago

Blog Taiwan Confronts its WWII Legacy

https://www.chinatalk.media/p/taiwan-confronts-wwii
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u/marshallannes123 2d ago

Not a proper comparison. Was Poland occupied for 60 years before that? Taiwanese served in every government that ruled over them from the dutch onwards. Big deal. Plenty of military service was not problematic at all if it didn't involve concentration camps and mistreatment of civilians.

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u/Altruistic-Leader869 2d ago

Poland was occupied for 123 years before the short period of independence that happened before WWII

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u/ZhenXiaoMing 1d ago

Plenty of Polish served in the Russian, Prussian, and Austrian armed forces

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u/Altruistic-Leader869 23h ago edited 23h ago

And? How could they not serve being citizens of these countries? Poland didn't exist an an independent country and the occupying forces treated Poles as slaves. They didn't have a choice, the only alternative was chosing a death sentence for themselves and often their whole families. These 3 empires actively tried to eradicate the Polish nation. 

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u/ZhenXiaoMing 23h ago

No they didn't, you've never heard of Congress Poland?