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Perun said:
If you can write 20 pages on the ideology of the Iranian Revolution, you ought to be able to knock out 50 pages on that one.
Always before, when I listen to Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, I would (and do) get chills up and down my back at the point when the rain began to fall. Every single time I hear a live version. Now, I have to say, after listening to it enough, Paschendale does the same thing. The part where 'blood is falling like the rain' .... yeah, there isn't much better than that.
Hm, and I just found the volume that "pops" off my receiver. Seems like i can't quite get the dial all the way to 11. meh. time for a bigger receiver.
Hm, and I just found the volume that "pops" off my receiver. Seems like i can't quite get the dial all the way to 11. meh. time for a bigger receiver.
Furthermore, it is my opinion that Carthage must be destroyed.
Furthermore, it is my opinion that Perun must be destroyed.
That's Cato? I knew it looked familiar ... all I could think was Cicero, but I knew that was wrong.
Hey, they both start with C, and they're from the same time ... that's pretty damn close by my standards.
Besides, Cato was a dick.
Hey, they both start with C, and they're from the same time ... that's pretty damn close by my standards.
Besides, Cato was a dick.
True, but neither man had decent facial hair.
I was thinking of Cato the Younger, not the Elder. The one who had it in for Caesar.
Forostar
Ancient Mariner
I just came back from a nice gig, together with two collegues, it was a (southern?) rock band called Dirty Sweet, from San Diego, USA.
Not 100% my style (sometimes I heard some Black Crows in them, sometimes a mix of Hendrix with Sabbath, sometimes country, sometimes a bit of 70's Priest, sometimes some Aerosmith, blues and rock'n'roll), but it was mighty entertaining. I loved many of their guitar riffs, and the singer was pretty strong, so was the rhythm section.
Time to go to bed, cheerssss!
Not 100% my style (sometimes I heard some Black Crows in them, sometimes a mix of Hendrix with Sabbath, sometimes country, sometimes a bit of 70's Priest, sometimes some Aerosmith, blues and rock'n'roll), but it was mighty entertaining. I loved many of their guitar riffs, and the singer was pretty strong, so was the rhythm section.
Time to go to bed, cheerssss!
Dr. Eddies Wingman
Brighter than thousand_suns
Perun said:
Hmm, interesting read.
About the Norwegian resistance: Recently the Norwegian National Broadcasting showed a documentary about the so called "Osvald group" - a resistance group that operated separately from Milorg. It was named after their leader Asbjørn Sunde, a volunteer against Franco in the Spanish civil war. Opinions about the group are divided, and they have not received as much recognition after the war as the members of the ordinary resistance. Much of this comes from that Sunde (supposedly without the knowledge of his subordinaries) took his orders from Moscow. Over the war, his group committed more acts of sabotage than Milorg, but not a single one until the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union. After the war, the members of the Osvald group were more or less forgotten by most, and other resistance members saw them as a threat since they had cooperated with the Soviets.
(The skepticism towards the Soviets was quite strong in Norway, which might explain why a number of Norwegians also joined the Waffen SS during the war. Those who did, and survived, have generally told they went because they were against Bolshevism, not pro Nazism).
Still, the civil resistance against nazification of the country, by teachers, clergy and - maybe just as important - athletes, must have been just as important to the morale of the population as the sabotage acts carried out by the armed resistance groups.
That's interesting, I didn't know at all about the Osvald Group. I guess you could interpret it that way that outside Germany, the major difference between national socialism and Communism wasn't at all clear.
Isn't that also the reason why Norway broke with its neutrality after the war and joined the NATO?
I must admit my knowledge about the Norwegian resistance is quite superficial, but I still wanted to give them a decent tribute.
Eddies Wingman said:
Isn't that also the reason why Norway broke with its neutrality after the war and joined the NATO?
I must admit my knowledge about the Norwegian resistance is quite superficial, but I still wanted to give them a decent tribute.
Dr. Eddies Wingman
Brighter than thousand_suns
Perun said:
Actually, a conservative Norwegian newspaper wrote some time in the 30s that "given a choice between the two dictatorships, we would without doubt choose Hitler's as the lesser of two evils". After the war, what shocked most about Nazism was the extent to which they had industrialized murder, and the racist motivation of it. All of this wasn't that well known before the war. Sure, people knew that Hitler thought the Germanic race was superior and that Jews, Slavic people and so on were inferior, but that kind of thoughts were not unique to the Nazis. So, from the outside, it would be easy to see Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union as just being two dictatorships who were aggressive towards their neighbours.
Perun said:
I would guess so. I would also think the fact that the Norwegian government's exile in London during the war made them lean towards the West more. The Norwegian Labour Party was in office in 1940 when Germany invaded, and they also won the first election after the war. I guess the central people in the party were very West-friendly. Communists were actually persecuted in Norway during the first decade after the war - by the Labour party who left the Socialist International as late as in the 20s.
Perun said:
I think it was an interesting read, nice to see how their efforts are perceived outside of Norway.
PS: Another interesting read might be the story of resistance man Jan Baalsrud, whose story is the main focus of a movie I am watching right now - called Ni Liv. The movie is about his escape from the Germans after a failed attempt to sabotage an airfield. Baalsrud was the only survivor when the boat with the explosives intended for use in the sabotage action was attacked by German soldiers.
Good stuff mate. I'm glad you liked it.
I'm really, really fucking sick.
I'm really, really fucking sick.