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By the way, Armenians were probably the most affected but not the only victims of genocide. Assyrians and Pontic Greeks were also murdered or mass deported at around the same time. My great grandparents were pontics from Trabzon and came to Greece as refugees, so I always felt some kind of weird lingering feeling of nostalgia or bitterness in the family about this. It sucks that this stuff still damages the relation between our countries to this day but I understand it to some extent.
Ironically the nationalists here treated Pontic refugees horribly, to the extent that “pontios” became slang for “idiot”, and yet it’s still the nationalists who pretend to care so much, as is typical.
