And yes, forgiving was a mistake. It was, in the end, Germany's and Germans' choice, not Russia's. It is a powerful speech by Maria. I suggest you endure it to the end. NATO's military doctrine and US Army's views have been written and shaped by Wehrmacht generals. Russians remain untermenschen for huge swaths of German society and Germans want revenge.
Germany is lost and Russians know what is coming, listen attentively to what Zakharova says. It is chilling in its inevitability and it is speech with no hope in it for Germany.
