Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

The Great War's Last Payment

Germany will make its last reparation payment on Sunday. The reparations were a provision of the Versailles Treaty of 1919. The payments, required by the obstinate of the French, have been widely credited with destabilizing the economy of the Weimar Republic, which gave the Nazis their route to power.

The irony is that the French, in creating an opportunity for German fascism, sowed the seeds for Germany's conquest of France 21 years later.[1]

100 years ago, color photography was in its infancy. There was color photography during the war; some German photos are at the UK Telegraph's web site. Of course, a little bit of Googling and I found a site of French color war photos

[1] The French government received substantial loans from the U.S. Treasury in World War 1 and lend-lease aid in World War 2. Fat chance that they ever paid those debts.

3 comments:

Nangleator said...

Um... The Versailles Treaty is still in effect? That means Germany can't build the Fokker D-VII, still?

Comrade Misfit said...

Apparently so.

S O said...

The debt repayment is not the real wartime debt, but obligations to those who lended money in order to enable Germany to repay debt.

The UK is still paying back debt of the seven years war if you count these kinds of obligations to private investors as war debt/reparations!