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Wikipedia: Tivadar [his father] saved not only his immediate family but also many other Hungarian Jews, and Soros later wrote that 1944 had been "the happiest [year] of his life," for it had given him the opportunity to witness his father's heroism.[

Stop lying.

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The idea that Soros, who was a 13-year old Hungarian Jew pretending to be christian as to not be murdered by the Nazis, somehow was sympathetic to the nazis is one of the laziest attempts at smearing someone I can remember.

The accusation is not that he sympathized with the Nazis. Quite the contrary, the accusation is that he has no sympathy for anyone. The accusation is that his worldview, was (and is) that he is responsible only for himself and he has no effect on affairs because if he didn't do [whatever] someone else would. He claims, on essence, that the events of the world is an unchangeable script, and the only control we have is which role we play. For an expert in markets, he claims stunning ignorance of the concept of marginal effects, and a non-stunning awareness of how to profit from amorality.

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