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Yeah! The Russian people overthrew the chains of communism so that they could let their country be run by the Russian mafia instead. Awesome! To celebrate this momentous occasion, I'm gonna order me up some weaponized plutonium from the 'Stans.

I like the building behind them.

warpcrafter wrote:Yeah! The Russian people overthrew the chains of communism so that they could let their country be run by the Russian mafia instead. Awesome! To celebrate this momentous occasion, I'm gonna order me up some weaponized plutonium from the 'Stans.

I'm guessing you've never paid attention in school?

BrookM wrote:

warpcrafter wrote:Yeah! The Russian people overthrew the chains of communism so that they could let their country be run by the Russian mafia instead. Awesome! To celebrate this momentous occasion, I'm gonna order me up some weaponized plutonium from the 'Stans.

I'm guessing you've never paid attention in school?

Pffft! Propaganda. We're no better than them.

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

I was there! Well, not in Berlin but Mannheim, actually. At least it was Germany. There was a LOT of uncertainty from the older West German citizenry. They were really concerned about their relatively strong economy tanking due to a massive welfare influx. The youth LOVED it. 20 years ago, wow I'm getting old.

So, I'm gathering there was some kind of wall? And it had something to do with German people?

Was it an attempt at the world record for largest wall dance?

Platuan4th wrote:So, I'm gathering there was some kind of wall? And it had something to do with German people?

Was it an attempt at the world record for largest wall dance?

Unfortunately they failed when they sledgehammered it apart :(.

"Live from Berlin, it's the Rolling Stones!"

And the crowd went wild.

It's kind of crazy it's only been twenty years, and that when I was born, Germany was still divided. Interesting times.

There's actually a conference on the Berlin wall going on right now at my university. I might go to one of the lectures this evening.

When I was at school everything east of Berlin was coloured red on the map. This has totally screwed my geography ever since.

George Spiggott wrote:When I was at school everything east of Berlin was coloured red on the map. This has totally screwed my geography ever since.

In the mid-late 90's we were still using Geography books with the collective USSR in it.

Louisiana seriously needs money...

Great moment in history.

Damn shame that North Koreans are still living under a Cold War divide.

Cane wrote:Great moment in history.

Damn shame that North Koreans are still living under a Cold War divide.

That's what happens when you have a megalomaniac xenophobic dictatorial warmonger who refuses to compromise or consider coming to peace talks ruling half a country.

I think I might have single-handedly just gotten Dakka banned in North Korea...

Come on, Dubya was not that bad.

avantgarde wrote:Come on, Dubya was not that bad.

Yes he was.

I went to school during the cold war, and I was mainly concerned with the city-destroying missiles that were aimed at me. I had a hard time believing that the whole fall of communism was actually happening for a long time. And yes, BrookM, that was hilarious. I'm dizzy after the gales of laughter. Next?

warpcrafter wrote:Yeah! The Russian people overthrew the chains of communism so that they could let their country be run by the Russian mafia instead. Awesome! To celebrate this momentous occasion, I'm gonna order me up some weaponized plutonium from the 'Stans.

YAY! You just insulted my country, my people, my history and worst of all ME!!!


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Hordini wrote:It's kind of crazy it's only been twenty years, and that when I was born, Germany was still divided. Interesting times.

Absolutely only the second world war was more interesting...geddid people GERMANS ARE INTERESTING!!!

Hordini wrote:There's actually a conference on the Berlin wall going on right now at my university. I might go to one of the lectures this evening.

Wish i could go with ya...well wait 3 1/2 years and i'll be bock!!!

warpcrafter wrote:Pffft! Propaganda. We're no better than them.

No, the mistake you made was in thinking the Berlin Wall was the end of the Soviet Union. While the fall of the Berlin Wall was an important part of the timeline for the Soviet Empire as a whole, it was neither the beginning (glasnost started in '85) nor was it the end (elections occurred in 1991 and the Soviet Union was officially dissolved in December of that year).

The wall was a pretty big deal for the Germans, though. And also David Hasselhoff.

Germans are interesting only compared to the Belgians and the Dutch.

20 years ago I was playing RT with my mates, on our humongous sand-table in a backyard, over beers.

Three days ago I was playing 5th edition in the club creche.

Can I have the "good old days" back (but without the inflation rate we had then) please?

Damned hooligans, breaking down walls! Who do they think they are?

Platuan4th wrote:So, I'm gathering there was some kind of wall? And it had something to do with German people?

Was it an attempt at the world record for largest wall dance?

Hurt him. Someone please. Hurt him.