#german invasion

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

On September 3, 1917, we had another "liberation day" of Riga. Riga was "liberated" by the Reichswehr, but a year later, in honor of this event, we received the "Wooden Fritz" monument, Latvia. Source: Kaspars Zellis

P.S. You can try to count how many times Riga was liberated in the 20th century by different invaders? We Latvians actually don't like foreign invaders! "Foreigners" always come with some bad shit here.... war, invasion, repressions and bad religions...multiculturalism attacks on Latvian language, culture, prosperity (well the Russian communist occupiers called it "socialist internationalism", an anti-indigenous hate ideology aimed at forcing the natives out of their homelands...and replacing local population with Russian migrants...) ..

Basically modern pseudo-liberal "multiculturalism" is an anti-indigenous hate ideology aimed at forcing the natives out of their home land...

[herukapadmajungiansworld]

[secondworldwarremembrancedays]

Remember the Battle of Britain: July–October 1940.

By late 1940, Britain faced the threat of a German invasion, but the incursion would succeed only with air superiority. What followed was the first major campaign fought by opposing air forces.

For four months, the German Luftwaffe carried out attacks on British airfields, radar stations, and aircraft factories, and bombed British cities, too. But the Stukas proved too vulnerable to being intercepted, and the Germans couldn’t mass enough planes to defeat the fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force in their Hurricanes and Spitfires. Heavy casualties forced the Luftwaffe to scale down operations. Hitler’s invasion plans were put on hold indefinitely.

[Must Read: What if the Nazis Bombed Britain Earlier?]

[rwpohl]

[historyandwarfare]

Attack on Poland - The Exodus

Attack on Poland – The Exodus

17 – 30 September: Exodus of the Fortunate Few The Polish Government, the military GHQ, civil servants and foreign diplomats started to evacuate Warsaw on 5 September. The aim was to reach the apparently still safe south-eastern Poland, bordered by the neutral Russia and friendly Hungary and Romania. Thousands of people were moving there, and on the evening of the 17th, the Polish Government…

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

The Odesa Opera and Ballet Theatre, Ukraine during the Nazi invasion and the russian invasion. X

[captain-price-unofficially]

A GI of the U.S. 1st Army compares his M1911 service pistol to the 12.8cm gun of a knocked out Jagdtiger in the woods of Offensen, Germany. April 1945

[illustratus]

Attack on a Moorish camp - Defeat of the Saracens at the Battle of Tours, AD 732 — by Alphonse de Neuville

The Franks led by Charles Martel attack the Saracen camp at the Battle of Tours, halting the Muslim invasion in the year 732

[deutschland-im-krieg]

Heer (German army) troops crossing the Meuse River in a rubber raft near Aiglemont, France, 14 May 1940

[lichozestudni]

🇨🇿 rn:

[fluentisonus]

i was talking to my aunt's german friend who's visiting abt how raccoons used to get into our chicken coop when I was growing up, and she didn't know the word raccoon so I was pulling up a picture saying like '-I'm sure you've seen a picture but they're north american animals so you don't get them in europe' & show her the picture whereupon she immediately goes 'oh yes! [german word for raccoon I didn't catch]! there's lots of those in berlin' which is how I learned you apparently Do get them. specifically in berlin (& maybe elsewhere idk)

[wilcze-kudly]

consider: au where opal goes rogue, leaves the airbenders, basically becomes antifa against kuvira

I LOVE THAT

I alwys thought Opal may be an airbender who would splinter off from the Air Nomads more traditional pacifistic lifestyle. What's interesting is that by going up against Kuvira, she is protecting an Air Nomad value- that of freedom.

So it would be interesting to see that storyline and how it would impact her relationship with the other airbenders like Jinora and Tenzin.

I also think the Beifong family would support her wholeheartedly, perhaps getting involved in it too. I kinda have been toying with the idea of the Beifongs starting a resistance against Kuvira. They seemed to be the only people genuinely caring about Kuvira's actions and willing to try to put a stop to her.

I think B4's storyline would benefit a lot from a having the Beifong family as Pov characters, since they could actually offer insight into what's going on in the Earth Kingdom. They also have a very personal connection to the villains, Kuvira and Baatar Jr, which wasn't explored as much as I wish it had been.

If the queercoded miniboss from B1 gets almost a whole episode with flashbacks to traumadump aboud his bender communist big bro in B1, why did Su have to tell Korra that she adopted Kuvira OFFSCREEN. Lile doesn't that feel like something we should've seen. AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THAT FUCKING COMIC.

When thinking about this idea, Iwas also inspired by Polish freedom fighters and their partisan activities, since Kuvira's rule over the Earth Empire has hallmarks of both Nazi and Soviet regimes, for example the Spirit Canon (before it got attached to the ridiculous robot) being inspired by an actual german canon (Dora), the literal Iron Curtain, the "re-education" camps, the militarisation, the forceful redistribution of resources, the rampant propaganda, etc, etc.

However, this storyline has strong USA influences, for example the almost complete dismissal of the actual people who live under the occupation, for the benefit of heroes from the thinly veiled New York insert.

The Beifong family stand out from this group as actual citizens of the Earth Kingdom, who were opposed to Kuvira's rule the whole time because they knew what the fuck was going on at least to some extent. They are members of an established Earth Kingdom family, daughter and grandchildren of an Earth Kingdom war hero, and they live in a city that is seemingly the seedbed of progress and innovation.

Their storylines could be fascinating as they come to realise that no one, not even the literal fucking Avatar seems to be too jazzed to help them, that they are quite literally on their own. This is not too dissimilar from Poland as it was at the beginning of the invasion. Despite having agreements with England and France of these two countries supporting Poland's independence, England and Frabce did not take up military action against Germany after its attack on Poland. Similarly, Republic City, the Fire Nation and the Air Nomads were not willing to put up a fight until Kuvira attacked them! Idk what the fuck the Water Tribe was doing but probably not much I assume.

Stories of resistance fighters in German occupied countries (not only Poland) are often forgotten in the larger picture, despite them playing vital roles in the war. This is especially poignant when it comes to countries that were absorbed into the Eastern bloc when said freedom fighters were hunted and murdered relentlessly to keep the people silent and obedient.

Seeing an echo of these often forgotten stories in the Beifong family, a family that tried to stand up against the dictator oppressing their country and then getting reduced to McGuffins in Korra's mental health journey and Bolin's ridiculous "getting back with my gf after I sympathised with Nazis" arc is disheartening.

The storyline was right there! The Beifongs have a personal connection to Kuvira and Baatar Jr, they have skin in the game, they have ideals opposing the main antagonist, they had the potential for an extremely emotuionally touching storyline, they have strong characters just begging to be explored. Opal and Kuvira are foils and it would be so easy to elevate Wei and Wing to the role of Baatar Jr's foils too, like a darker more antagonistic version of Tenzin and Bumi!

The storyline was right there!

But instead they get sidelined for Korra's, admittedly well done, but misplaced trauma arc and a weird fantasy oriental USA saviour fantasy. And then they get a shitty half assed comic where Opal and the twins to lesser extent are posited as unreasonable for being wary and angry at a person who tried to kill them! And Kuvira is woobified to an insulting extent.

Also Kuvira's attack on Zaofu, a wealthy and advanced city full of artists, scholars and visionaries gives big "Soviets and Germans commiting mass murder of Polish Intelligentsia in for example Katyń, in order to make the nation easier to control and take apart, due to lack of potential resistance leaders." I do not wanna hear you bitches talking about how she was right for wanting to "redistribute their wealth and shit". Her ass was after power and those damn platnium domes to make her military stronger. Like if this weren't a fucking kids show and they weren't planning a 'redemption' for Kuvira, people would be standing above mass graves and being shot in the back of the head.

Quick note: I'm going off mainly my knowledge of Polish history due to my own nationality and education, but there are similar stories in may surrounding countries, for example Ukraine which is currently still being attacked by Russia. The stories and ideologies Kuvira and B4 represented are still well and alive today, as was the rest of the world's indifference to the suffering caused by them.

This is why I feel so strongly on this subject and I wish it was handled better and with more care for the actual victims instead of the sorta "America adjacent" heroes.

I also want to note that I don't wish to erase the influences of other cultures and histories on Kuvira, B4 and the whole of Tlok. I am merely noticing themes and references that I was primed to see since I was a child, but that doesn't mean that this is the exclusive reading of the storyline.

I know this rant kinda fell away from the og topic and got heated but I have ✨️feelings✨️ about book 4, the Beifongs and Kuvira.

[thecargays]

Oh nostalgia…

[theatrepup]

"After about ten lessons he smuggled me into an audition before Max Reinhardt; it was an audition for actors who were already actors. I delivered the first Faust monologue, and Reinhardt listened, smiling but said nothing afterward. I thought he had been amused by my youth and my long Bohemian haircut." --Conrad Veidt in Modern Screen magazine, 1941.

You know it had occurred to me that Conrad foreshadowed the '60s British invasion. I mean, the Beatles did get their hair cut from their German friends. ;D

https://archive.org/details/Modern-Screen-1941-06-Vol-23-No-1/mode/2up?view=theater

[silverfox66]

[historyandwarfare]

Attack on Poland – Soviet Invasion and The Fall of Poland

Attack on Poland – Soviet Invasion and The Fall of Poland

10 – 20 September: The Situation Elsewhere On 5 September, Rydz-Smigly had ordered the Polish armies to retire and regroup behind the Vistula, Bug and San rivers. This was an effort doomed to failure: German armored columns had already broken through, and were advancing faster than the Polish forces could withdraw. Vistula front was saved by the Bzura counteroffensive, so it was only on 15…