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Anonymous wrote:People rave about Turkey...but having spent time in Armenia, I can't get past the fact that Turkey committed attempted genocide against Armenia and still won't admit it.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/ref/timestopics/topics_armeniangenocide.html?onwardjourney=584162_v1

I just can't get past that.

Does anyone else have trouble visiting a country for social justice reasons?

This is interesting. I am aware of the attempted genocide, but it was 100 years ago. Literally everyone who participated in it or committed it is dead, the government has turned over many times, so I view it as an unsavory piece of history. If you started disqualifying countries for unsavory historical episodes there would be nowhere to visit.

That said, there are certain (current) regimes that I wouldn’t support with my tourist dollars, even if my safety were guaranteed. Putin’s Russia, North Korea, and China, for example.

I’m not crazy about the idea of visiting Serbia—that genocide still seems to close to me. It’s like looking at anyone over the age of 50 and wondering what they were doing in the 90s. I’ve never been to Germany and I think I’m just about at the point where I’d not feel weird about it.

Of all the strange and often ignorant statements in this thread, this one might be a contender for the #1 spot.

Actually, the PP is spot on. Many were never punished and went on to live ordinary lives. You can safely assume that many men over 50 were fighting in that conflict.

Not in Germany, which is the part the PP was responding to.

Yes—this September will be the 80th anniversary of end of WWII. I’ve spent a good deal of time in Germany and feel like a lot of the people my age (mid 50s) who I’ve met are absolute pacifists due their country’s history. I’ve also spent a good deal of time in former Yugoslavia. It is something that people struggle with— knowing or just wondering what other people were doing during the war. We have to put history behind us in some way.