Prismattic comments on Open thread, November 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Prismattic 09 November 2011 02:07:46AM 2 points [-]

It's not quite that simple. The descendants of the victors generally see the victors as good, but that doesn't mean the descendants of the vanquished see the defeated as evil. Nazism seems to be a case where the defeated society really has strongly repudiated its past, but there is plenty of Soviet nostalgia in Russia and Confederate nostalgia in Dixie.