The most toxic and violent of empires carry ahead of them a monstrance of eternal victimhood, justifying all future crimes to come. Everytime i hear the list of past crimes committed (the versailes treaty, the nazi assault on the motherland, the rape of nanjing) i know what bestial warcrimes are to come.
The Zhihu answer linked, which supposedly has over 20 million hits, has less than 7,000 people who clicked on “Agree”.
And someone decided to make a sensationalist news article out of it.