Comparing debating Cromwell’s actions in Ireland to Holocaust denial is a pretty egregious example of Godwin’s law. Drogheda and Wexford were nothing like the Chmielnicki massacres. For one thing, Chmielnicki never negotiated with towns for surrender nor did he abide by the accepted rules of war of the time, both of which Cromwell did. He may have been a total rasha in many regards, but you cannot pretend that he was an out and out barbarian unless, of course your ancestors came from Wexford or Drogheda in which case you are entitled to your cultural conditioning.
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