#Geography of Slovenia

[flagsofeuropeshowdown]

European Flag Showdown Round 1

Romania

Slovenia

Reminder that this is not about the countries the flags represent, just the flags themselves.

[xcziel]

i keep losing half an hour at a time to this

(i've got europe africa and asia mostly down and am working on the americas outside the us, i'm just not very good with the island countries yet)

if you can point all of the above out on a map off the top of your head i am in awe of you

[thedailybollard]

Slovenia

[kalinq0]

In honor of school starting again and me realising how much I actually fucked my life by enrolling in a gymnasium instead of a normal highschool, here is what subjects i think the yugos would teach if they worked in a gymnasium:

1. Serbia- Sports: Its in his blood to make future athlets and champions, good at every sport exept soccer and still preffers the kids playing it over any other. He pretends to be good at it and to like it, but he is terrible at it and hates the fact he is worse then croatia. Those kids will need to pay for therapy after each class from all of the verball abuse, also will break a couple of bones from Serbia forcing them to do the same practices he did in the military

2. Slovenia- Logistics: This subject apears in the last year and thats mostly why I picked it, he doesnt like most of the kids and finds them annoying, tho here he will change students every year so theres no need to pretend he likes them when he doesnt even remember them. He is the only somewhat mentaly stable in the balkans, and needs a break from constant fighting and wars

3. Macedonia- Sociology: This subject is only in the 3rd and 4th year, here the students learn about different cultures, social groups and social roles. Macedonia is the only country that peacefully left Yugoslavia and it has every possible ethnic group in the balkans. The only problem is economics is a verry important part of this class and she cant even teach it to herself let alone other kids

4. Montenegro- Religion(orthodoxy): Doesnt teach anything, either lets them go outside or goes to the church right next to the school. Doesnt even know whats he doing there, but he has several prayer ropes(brojanice) and a cross necklace so in his mind he is as religious as he can be. Most likely drinks/smokes the same second the class is over. He falls asleep while "teaching" regulary. Most likely in church aswell but somehow hid it.

5. Bosnia and Herzegovina- Ethics: Yes I think both of them would teach this. Here almost like in sociology, social dillemas, issues of identity and community and cultular customs are taught. They are the only merried couple in the balkans, would be a great example especially with Srpska living with them also

6. Croatia- Music arts: Croatia has some of the best musicians in the balkans, he listens to everything when it comes to music, likes to sing and plays the piano. Would teach them war criminal and nationalistic songs

7. Srpska- History: Emagine telling your students you are the reason ww1 happened, aswell as many other balkan wars. Would get fired the next day for multiple reasons. At first I wanted to give him geography but he would just fight with the kids the hole class

8. Vojvodina- Psychology: She is so underrated omg, shes the one that needs therapy after living with vuk, tho instead of that she teaches it to other kids to both try to heal them and herself. The kids love her tho, shes chill and would let them do anything if they dont want to listen

[tenochre]

The First-Level Subdivisions Quiz Post

I don't post as much about my interests here as I do on twitter, so with the aim of changing that, here is what I've spent most of my time doing for the past like 9 months. This is the JetPunk "ALL First Level Subdivisions of the World With a Map" quiz. My objective is to get a 100% score. This entails naming 3,795 first-level country subdivisions.

A first level subdivision is the highest-level division of a country's area, equivalent to a us state, or a typical region, province, or governorate in most countries. For example, most (american) people probably know all of the us states. If you've played a lot of paradox games, or if you have a preexisting interest in geography, you probably know many of the oblasts of russia, or the provinces of china. But if you look closely on this map you may notice some countries with very, very dense subdivisions that are usually shown separately in insets and depicted larger than their neighbors. Here is the kicker with this quiz: some countries don't have administrative regions as their first level subdivision. They have municipalities. Getting 100% on this quiz requires you to memorize all 76 municipalities of iceland, all 136 districts of uganda, and all 212 towns and cities of slovenia. Even if you have some incredible prior knowledge coming into this quiz, you're still required to learn and memorize a tremendous amount. Here's what my first attempt looked like, back in march:

I had a lot of prior knowledge going in, but that was only good for 27%. I set out with the goal of doing an attempt on this quiz (no small feat, as it usually takes several hours) once a week. I've fallen off of that goal a little bit, but I've still made some pretty good progress. This is what week 5 looked like:

Much of this improvement came from grinding out individual country quizzes, but just as much came from studying the results and noticing some patterns in subdivisions worldwide: many countries have provinces simply named after cardinal directions or common geographical features. The way that memorization works on this scale tends to go like this: I keep 3-4 country quizzes open in my browser, steadily chip away at them for a week or so until I can consistently name all the provinces, then fold them into my full world attempts. If I'm not careful to do attempts consistently even after I've learned these province names they tend to fall out of my head pretty quickly, so I try and take my time. In the weeks and months since I've made steady improvement: having started this exercise in march, I learned all of south america by the start of september. My completion percentage has gone from 27% to 61%. Most recently I finally learned all of algeria (58 provinces) and turkey (81 provinces), two countries I'd been struggling with for months. Here's today's result:

Here is the link to the quiz, if you're interested. You may notice that the timer on the quiz is set to 90 minutes by default. It is not possible to get 100% on this quiz in 90 minutes. There's a very helpful option to take the quiz untimed. tl;dr geography autism is consuming my life and I can no longer play geoguessr for free. if by posting this I become a complete freak in your eyes I understand completely

[artizonka]

I thought the Americans don’t know geography things as a joke but Mage just told me she doesn’t know about Slovenia or Montenegro???

[justsomeguycore]

love that we’re all doing geography sporcle now. what’s your favorite world capital based on name alone? i like asmara (eritrea) and ljubljana (slovenia)

[haveyouplayedthisirlgame-poll]

ATLAS is a playground/party game about geography. play generally passes around a circle, with the first player pointing at another and saying "ATLAS!". The player they pointed at must name a country/city/province starting with "S", and the next player must name one starting with the last letter of that place (eg, if the first player says "Slovenia" the next player could answer "Amsterdam", and the following player "Malaysia"). If a player can't name a location, they are out.

[mapsontheweb]

Map of European Road Curve Chevron Signs

by u/isaacSW

Not sure if something like this has been done before but I’ve put together a map showing the colour schemes used on the chevron signs used on road curves throughout Europe (this is the sort of thing I’m talking about). I think it could be quite powerful in some areas, like the Balkans and central Europe, where they are quite common and the colours vary a lot from country to country.

This won’t be 100% accurate, and I’m sure you will be able to find counterexamples, but I have checked multiple signs in each country and it appears to be a fairly reliable clue. If you do find anything I’ve missed, let me know and I will update the map and post the link below. Here is a list of observations I’ve made while making this map, with example locations.

Notes:

The white colour is often substituted for luminous green/yellow in high altitude/latitude areas (example). Austria and Montenegro have their yellow variants shown on the map as they appear to greatly outnumber the corresponding white variants. The yellow colour on south-facing signs will often fade to near-white.

Some countries will add a luminous yellow outline to the signs rather than replacing the white (generally in high altitude/latitude areas). Some countries that do this are: Italy, Romania, Hungary, Russia, the UK, Belgium and Turkey.

Most countries will also have a long variant of the curve chevron sign (example). This should be the same colour scheme as the single-chevron signs, however it may be less obvious which is the ‘background’ and which is the ‘chevron’ colour.

Notable Countries:

Spain uses both the white-on-blue and white-on-black interchangeably. It is always the long variant (as far as I can tell), and the colour distribution does not seem to vary by geographic location. (blue example, black example)

Montenegro uses the red-on-yellow (example) and black-on-white (example) signs in roughly equal amounts (no real correlation with geography), with some lower areas near the coast using the red-on-white variant (example), however this is much less common than the red-on-yellow.

Slovenia uses mainly the black-on-white variant (example), however areas around Ljubljana and Koper (and maybe other areas) use the red-on-white variant (example).

Austria uses the red-on-yellow and white-on-red frequently in the upland areas. They are also often found with a pattern of a few reds then a yellow (example), which appears to be unique to the country. The lowland areas may also use the red-on-white variant.

The Netherlands often uses a miniature variant (example)

Russia and Ukraine use the long variant quite frequently, which also sometimes appears in the Baltics (possibly other ex-soviet regions too). The single variant also has more background colour visible compared to other countries (example). It also often has a white outline.

North Macedonia has red-on-white and black-on-white variants, though the black ones appear to be less common.

Frequency:

Countries that use a lot of roadside bollards tend to use fewer curve chevron signs.

Rare in Andorra, Finland and Denmark.

Fairly uncommon in: Baltics, Sweden, Iceland, Russia, Ukraine, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

Fairly common in: Norway, UK/Ireland, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Switzerland, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, and flatter areas of the Balkans.

Very common in: the Austrian Alps, mountainous areas of the Balkans, and Turkey.

[protoindoeuropean]

I was tagged by @icebluecyanide, thank you!!

When was the last time you cried? It's been a while, I don't remember exactly. The last time I wanted to cry was about two weeks ago when I had a terrible headache and I just wanted some release and I was like, maybe I should just cry a bit

Do you have kids? Nope. Not opposed to having kids in principle, but I wouldn't have any alone and so the question of "Who with?" remains to be answered first ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Do you use sarcasm a lot? Hmm, it's not my primary kind of humour, that's just more generally "witty," I think. The most sarcastic I get is with my family lol

What sports do you playdo? Tree climbing (no actually I need to get back to indoor climbing, I went once – for the first time in literally 17 years – with some uni friends back in ...March? But I need to get back to my general working out anyway, so yeha 🤠)

What's the first thing you notice about people? The face, I guess? I don't think it's more specific than that (like eyes or nose or whatever)

What's your eye colour? Green 💚

Scary movies or happy endings? I don't mind sad endings, but I don't care much for scary movies, so it's got to be happy endings

Any special talents? Umm, when I was still regularly drinking coke I could open a can of coke single-handedly while holding it in air (and it was an ambidextrous skill at that! tbf idk if I've still got it). How's that for a special talent lmao

Where were you born? It's no secret I'm from Slovenia

What are your hobbies? ig this is where I put things like playing the piano or drawing, but while I do use my piano semi-regularly, I haven't drawn anything in like a year ...

Do you have pets? Nope. I don't think the window spider counts

How tall are you? 188 cm

Favourite subject in school? Geography, probably (also easiest)

Dream job? Huh, one where there's no deadlines and I can do whatever. Tough luck with that I have to say

I'm tagging @bunny-banana, @merfolkplantgay, @ptactwo, @spacepearl, idk who's into doing this kind of thing, tag yourself!

[jaydencoolguy]

List of every country, in case you need one

Ever wanted a list of each and every country without having to leave the comfort of Tumblr? Or have you always wanted to easily copy and paste a list without extra numbers and letters getting in the way? Now you don't have to worry! Here's one simple and easy country list for all you geography and list lovers alike. (SPECIAL EDITION: INCLUDING TAIWAN AND VATICAN CITY)

Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Austrailia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Côte d'Ivoire Cabo Verde Cambodia Cameroon Canada Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Congo-Brazzaville Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Eswatini Ethiopia Fiji Finland France Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Holy See Honduras Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria North Korea North Macedonia Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Palestine Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar Romania Russia Rwanda Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa San Marino Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Korea South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Timor-Leste Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States of America Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City Venezuela Vietnam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe

[aristotels]

literally hate words west, european, white, colonialism, etcetc not bc theyre bad words but because they change with context and then i have no fucking idea what people are talking about and i also have NO IDEA WHAT I, MYSELF, AM TALKING ABOUT

when i say west, i dont mean eastern europe bc west is a term for an opressive and colonial regime of western countries, but also that west doesnt include latam, but also when i talk about "the west" in context of palestine i do actually mean "+ee too", because its west in terms of geography, but also financial power it holds over palestine

and if we talk about white/european imperialism w/o mentioning balkan countries who were victims of colonization instead of having colonies you get a "we dont consider you white" answer (to me it feels like a dodge of a diff economical problem of west; the white on white imperialism where certain whites arent white, and how its weaponized - making for an interesting discussion of what whiteness is and how is the western europe using it against other (?) white countries; begging the question of where the concept came from and who is calling the shots... showing that its an arbitrary construct that has zero inherent value, and that its a crafted narrative of upholding imperialism. any significance attributed to it is false and fragile.)

(ive actually seen people say yugoslavs arent white because we dont have "european mentality". so what even is european mentality? and more importantly who decides what that mentality is? and if these people do not fit into that european mentality, which europe obviously needs them to, then... how are we allowed to treat those balkan intruders? whiteness/europeanism are constructed houses of cards which move goalposts to decide who fits into them. interestingly, ive seen people claim that "slovenians are white, but croats/serbs/bosnians arent". why is that? because slovenia has more of the European Mentality, is my guess. what is european mentality anyway?)

and if we do the same w european imperialism we get once again the same problem: if east didnt participate in it, then what is europe? europe is a set of ideals, which is also an interesting thing to think about, esp having heard croatian leadership talking for years now about "needing to have european values"

implying that we arent european tho we live there? but isnt it a form of cultural imperialism for western europe to have such control and power that their values become those of europe as whole, which every eastern country much hold up to, or they arent part of europe?

i am rly fucking hungover and i am making zero sense pls ignore this post i am just talking to myself

[moyokeansimblr]

tagged by @nervosims ❤️

ooh, tag game!

are you named after anyone? Nope! But the story of my name is that after making huge ass lists of baby girl names that mine was the only one on both my mom's and dad's lists.

when was the last time you cried? Today 😂 I cried when Joker Out/Slovenia qualified to the Eurovision final today. They announced them last and I stopped breathing for a while. I love them so much.

do you have kids? Absolutely not, I can hardly take care of myself.

do you use sarcasm a lot? I do, but my delivery kinda sucks so it seems like I'm being rude sometimes.

what sports do you play/have you played? None. I'm incredibly uncoordinated, clumsy etc. Not an athletic bone in this body.

what’s the first thing you notice about other people? Usually hair, then overall face. But I almost never notice eye color. Personality-wise I notice whether people smile right out the gate or not (because I don't).

eye colour? Beats me, some kind of green-y-gray-y thing. I can't look at eyes or it makes mine hurt is that weird?

scary movies or happy endings? Both I guess? I like psychological horror but not anything that has loud noises/jumpscares etc. And I love feel-good-y stuff.

any special talents? Don't think so. I'm pretty talent-less.

where were you born? Wisconsin, U S of A.

what are your hobbies? Sims, duh. Eurovision, watching Survivor and Love Island (not the US Love Island tho), tarot & astrology, true crime youtube, think that's mostly it.

do you have any pets? I have two cats, named Sophie and Zook.

how tall are you? I think I'm between 5'7 and 5'8 but I slouch a lot because I have that stance of being extremely anxious all the time.

fave subject in school? Geography. Got a degree in it, after all.

dream job? Not a clue honestly, I just want to do something that I can do as much or as little as I want of per day. Not found that yet.

Hmm, this is the first I'm seeing of this so idk who's done it already. I shall tag @episims and @rascalcurious and @kayleigh-83 but feel free to ignore or anyone else who wants to do it go for it!

[leopardom]

wait so... IS slovenia a balkan country? I can't seem to find a clear answer, but technically, the Balkan mountain range doesn't reach into Slovenia, right? I know there's a lot of connection as ex-yugoslavian countries and that though? sorry, lining up history + geography + politics is just Not my field of expertise, I read one thing and forget it and then I can't form connections

i can’t be 100% sure myself but from all the geography i know and from what i’ve read over the years, Slovenia is a balkan country in the same sense as Greece and Turkey are

part of Slovenia is located in the Balkan Peninsula (same happens with parts of Greece and Turkey) so in that sense it can be considered as a balkan country. now culture wise, i obviously can’t know per se, and it’s been like a decade since i’ve been to Slovenia myself and came in touch with the culture there, but there are similarities with that of other balkan countries. now idk how to word this correctly so it doesn’t come out the wrong way, but Slovenia feels like it’s a more Central Europeanised country since it’s neighbouring with Italy and Austria, with which they probably share culture elements too

[onlyonewoman]

Sometimes I feel like we forget how fast the world has changed in 34 years and how we keep forgetting that it's not really about the time, but the vast gap between what was possible in 1989 and 2023. I was 6 years old and probably doing some autumn themed stuff in kindergarten November 9th 1989, like gluing leaves on a paper or drawing mushrooms. It was a Thursday and I was too young to know about the Berlin wall or the fact that there were two Germanys. After all, I lived way up north in Europe and the first news from outside my country I can truly remember seeing, was the horrible Romanian orphanages with pictures of children kept basically in cages. I knew nothing about world wars or any wars for that matter and since my parents weren't metal fans, I obviously didn't know about a German band called Scorpions either. In 1989, I didn't know that the big map of Europe in my sister's geography book was about to change completely. The 90's recession hit hard and getting new books to schools wasn't easy, when thinking about how suddenly, we had 19(!) "new" countries instead of Soviet Union, East and West Germany and Czechoslovakia. Think about it! We went from these 4 countries: - Soviet Union - East Germany - West Germany - Czechoslovakia to 18: - Armenia - Azerbaijan - Belorussia (now Belarus) - Czech Republic - Estonia - Georgia - Germany - Kazakhstan - Kirgiziya (now Kyrgyzstan) - Latvia - Lithuania - Moldavia (now Moldova), - Russia - Slovakia - Tajikistan - Turkmenistan - Ukraine - Uzbekistan And then, barely 3 years later, when I was in third grade, the Yugoslavian war started and the maps in our then new Geography books went obsolete again. 1994, Internet wasn't yet a thing and we got classmates from countries we'd never heard of, learning that there was no longer a place called Yugoslavia, but in fact 6 to add to the increasing list: - Slovenia - Croatia - Bosnia - Herzegovina - Kosovo - Macedonia For a long, long time, these 24 countries were 5 and what little a kid would know about them, came in the shape of already obsolete world altas books and tv news we were too young to understand. Suddenly, many of us got new classmates from these new places and the names of Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia especially stuck. We saw pictures from Sarajevo on the news and when we turned 12/13 and started 7th grade, our new history books had a picture of a smiling East German soldier and a smiling West German woman pouring champagne from the Berlin wall. Heavy metal wasn't popular anymore but everyone and their goldfish knew Scorpion's "Wind Of Change" from 1990: "The wind of change blows straight into the face of time Like a storm wind that will ring the freedom bell for peace of mind Let your balalaika sing what my guitar wants to say (say)

Take me (take me) to the magic of the moment On a glory night (a glory night) Where the children of tomorrow share their dreams (share their dreams) With you and me (you and me)" This is not my old ass trying to tell young people here on this hellsite about the past, but time and pace - and the dangers of taking democracy, peace and stability for granted. Never in my life had I imagined another full scaled war in Europe after the horrors of Yugoslavian wars. I TRULY believed the likes of Putin and Lukasjenko would see how pointless, reckless and just... bonkers a war in Europe would be in these times. I GENUINLY didn't think I'd be listening to news of Russian soldiers demolishing a peaceful neighbor in 2022. I NEVER anticipated a Brexit and the potential risks it means for Northern Ireland, where there's been a declared, official peace only since 2007. Well, what's the fucking point of this history rambling from a 40-year-old relic? you may ask. The answer is simple. My classmates' Sarajevo in 1994, is just an older version of your collegues, neighbors etc. coming from Ukraine 2022. That my wild hope for this atrocious genocide at least will end in another Haag Tribunal, like the one the murderers like the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. I want to see Putin and his lackeys put on trial like Slobodan Milošević, Ratko Mladić, Tihomir Blaškić and other war criminals in the Yugoslavian war. Putin is just like them and there is no forgiveness and no excuses, no reasons even remotely acceptable for his war crimes. The massacres in Butja and demolition and ransacking of Kiev is no different than the bombings of Sarajevo. The images are the same and I NEED you to understand how these types of war stems from the sick grandiosity minds of despotes living in the past, dreaming of ancient "glory" because they are small, insignificant men who can't bear the thought of being slighted. You ALSO need to understand why Europe as a whole was so wholly unprepared for this. It's because we, as every other human population on Earth, really can't bear to constantly think the worst of our neighbors. We thought the times of war on this scale were behind us, not because we're better than others - HELL NO! - but because most of us thought everyone realised there were more to lose in a war than could be gained. We didn't anticipate that for the likes of Putin, "Wind Of Change" was never a song about hope for a brighter future, but more like a song of mourning.

Putin was 38, two years younger than me when the Soviet Empire began to collaps and we overlooked his crushed dreams and need for revenge - and the price he was willing to pay himself to go for it. Volodymyr Zelenskyj is 5 years my senior, one year older than my big sister. I try picturing him in 1989 as an 11-year-old, sitting in a classroom somewhere in Ukraine at the same time as my sister did, 10 years old. How both of them in their respective language had geography lessons with suddenly obsolete maps and how what was merely a piece of information for my sister, was reality for Volodymyr. Volodymyr in 1989 had no idea he'd one day lead Ukraine through a war as horrendous as the one that would break out in Yugoslavia 3 years later.

This, my youngsters on this precious hellsite, is why you can't declare people over 25 out of touch or ignorant or unable to change as soon as we don't live up to whatever standard of Internet purity setting the mood for the day. I NEED YOU TO KNOW HOW MUCH THE WORLD HAS CHANGED! I need you to understand how difficult it is for a small human being to know which leg to stand on at times, that it's okay to be wrong and that walls will be built and torn down, old contries dying and new ones rising in their ashes in what a while later will seem like a blink of an eye. I don't have to imagine Volodymyr or my sister hearing Wind Of Change on the radio in two different countries, not knowing English well enough to understand the lyrics and definitely not knowing how much the world would change before their eyes. I don't have to, because I was there too, just a few years younger and still gluing autumn leaves on paper with my classmates in kindergarten. And at the same time, somewhere in Sarajevo, a girl who'd become my friend and classmate in 4th grade, didn't know she'd see her hometown bombed to ashes and move hundreds of miles away, learning a new, difficult language and read the same obsolete geography book as I did - with a map that didn't show her country.

I want, so bad, for you people here too young to remember this, to take a moment and realise the nothing but astonishing changes that have taken place long before any you were born and how slow the news traveled before the Internet. Don't take this as a scolding because it's absolutely NOT! This is me urging you to be more gentle with yourselves, your peers and older as well as younger people because while history does repeat itself, it rarely does it in the same place or the same pattern. Milosevic or Putin, Radic or Prigozjin - different names but still coldhearted murderers and just as Milosevic didn't get to erase Bosnia-Herzegovina and Sarajevo from the maps, there is just no alternative in any fucking world, that Putin should be allowed to erase Ukraine and it's cities and people and culture. To all of you who's first present day images from a war in the West were those from Butja and Kiev: talk to people you know who are in their 40's and older. They might be able to tell you about the Berlin wall, the Soviet Empire and how a German rock group wrote a song that would be significant for what people hoped for when I was still gluing leaves and learning the names of the months, miles and miles away from the place where people older than me were starting to literally tear a wall down. Stand with Ukraine, stand on the right side of history and don't forget how close the past is, even when times truly seem to spin faster than ever.