CopperLine wrote:Piratis just gets sillier and sillier :
Lets compare the invasion of Crete by the Nazis (one of the most important battles of the WWII)
The Germans used a couple of divisions in the invasion of Crete in 1941, with a bout 4,000 casualties, roughly half:half dead:wounded. Let's take another relatively insignificant battles of the 2ndWW, the 1st Battle of Tobruk, occurring roughly the same period and strategic moment as Crete. Here there were at least 5 Italian divisions and 3 German divisions, with casualties of about 8,000. But lets take a couple of significant battles eg the Bulge or Kursk. For the former we're talking not in terms of divisions but in terms of army groups, of which the Germans deployed 4 army groups with 70,000 + casualties - but still Piratis has the tint battle of Crete as the most significant of WW2. But even the Bulge is dwarfed by Kursk which was just one battle area amongst many had 50 German divisions, totalling 900,000 troops (20 times the number of troops involved in Crete) pitted against 1.7 million Russian troops. And Piratis says that Crete was one of the most important battles of WW2. Crete was even one morning's fighting of Kursk.
I don't know why but Piratis' sense of proportion is perversely distorted.
My sense of proportion is fine my friend. It is yours which is distorted.
You are comparing the war between two major powers (Russia and Germany) with the invasion of Turkey, a major power, against a small island like Cyprus! No my friend. The right comparison is the one I gave earlier, where In both cases we have a major fascist power (Germany/Turkey) invading a Mediterranean island (Crete/Cyprus).
Ask any Cypriot and he will tell you that we would rather be invaded by the Germans, be occupied for some years and then be liberated (like Crete), rather than being invaded by the Turks, who not only caused to us the same amount of casualties that the Germans caused to the Cretan population, but on top of that ethnically cleansed 100s of thousands of innocent people, imported 10s of thousands of foreign Settlers in Cyprus (against the Geneva Convention) and continue to occupy part of our country for over 35 years!
The Germans regretted for their crimes and that is why they can be forgiven. On the other hand you, not only you do not regret your crimes against Cyprus, but you continue your crimes as we speak with no indication that you will ever show some respect to international law, democracy and human rights.
