re: #300 Dr Lizardo

Hell, look at Turkey in regards to the Armenian Genocide. They flat-out refuse to admit it, and for the reason you cited…..no one wants to have their ancestors and their country associated with genocide.

I don’t know if my following generalization applies to Turkey/Armenia, but my experience is that the reason is because they share the same prejudices as their ancestors about that group, and have a hard time dealing with it. For example, holocaust deniers are never disinterested historians, but invariably antisemites. sergey may know of an exception, I would like to hear it if so.