h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The Russians spent most of yesterday marching around and parading
their tanks and missiles in what they call military victory day; ie: the
defeat of Germany in 1945.

Putin watched the parade in Moscow and then popped over to Crimea
to watch another big parade of Russian military hardware with all
Russian flags a-flapping. He never even mentioned Ukraine, as if
the Crimean connection to Russia was self evident. (Well actually,
it is.)



~jwf~

Russia is even bigger than Canada. You might think it's a long way down the ...insert quote... etc etc etc etc, but that's peanuts compared to Russia. Or Florence Nightingale. Who owned the Crimea when she was there? Yawn.

Patton was right.

The 9th of November is an unsuitable day to celebrate because it coincides with the anniversary of the Kristallnacht.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_9_in_German_history

I forgot to mention that it also coincides with 2legs birthday.

I expect that 2Legs' birthday is a lot more fun than Kristallnacht ever was. Actually, anything to do with 2Legs is likely to be fun, though my eyes glaze over by the second line of some of his posts.

Oh. Well that clears that up.

Nov 9th is not only the date of Reichskristallnacht (which makes it very unsuitable as THE national holiday), but is also the date of Novemberrevolution. At the close of WW1, tension grew tense in Germany. On Nov 9, 1918, social democrat Phillip Scheidemann proclaimed the birth of a new, free republic, while a few hours later, communist Karl Liebknecht proclaimed the birth of a new, free, socialist republic.

I have a feeling that in 1990, the leaders of the Germanies had these events at least just as much on their mind as Kristallnacht when they decided to move the reunification of Germany to October 3rd.

Y.