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Zzulu: May 15, 2009; (â°ËvËâ°)

In 25 years when the apocalypse comes, when China starts virus-bombing our cities to kill as many civilians as it takes to get our government to surrender, I will remember that they are actually doing it to save us from further casualties out of the goodness of their hearts.

# ¿ Jul 19, 2020 11:20

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 16:47

Zzulu: May 15, 2009; (â°ËvËâ°)

Japan did some real gnarly stuff, really evil stuff

# ¿ Jul 19, 2020 15:37

Zzulu: May 15, 2009; (â°ËvËâ°)

The brits did nothing but gently caress up for the entire war

# ¿ Jul 20, 2020 11:36

Zzulu: May 15, 2009; (â°ËvËâ°)

World War 3 will be streamed live on Twitch

# ¿ Jul 20, 2020 18:57

Zzulu: May 15, 2009; (â°ËvËâ°)

PewdiePie will make reaction videos when New York gets nuked

# ¿ Jul 20, 2020 19:04

Zzulu: May 15, 2009; (â°ËvËâ°)

It's good that the Russians saved Europe and that America cockblocked them from also conquering Europe

# ¿ Jul 20, 2020 23:11

Zzulu: May 15, 2009; (â°ËvËâ°)

No it was a good thing obviously

If America hadn't been there to go "heeey there bud, hold yer horsies there bud" :clint:

to the soviet union I'm sure they would have seized the moment and just rolled over Europe

# ¿ Jul 20, 2020 23:38

Zzulu: May 15, 2009; (â°ËvËâ°)

Cowardice is actually Cleverness. We're just being clever :smug:

- Sweden during WW2

# ¿ Jul 21, 2020 11:26

Zzulu: May 15, 2009; (â°ËvËâ°)

Qvark posted:

Lmao we would have been owned harder then Denmark, and Denmark got owned so badly they still practice Nazi ideology

Yeah, it was cleverness, not cowardice :smug:

# ¿ Jul 21, 2020 19:35

Zzulu: May 15, 2009; (â°ËvËâ°)

Germany could just indefinitely keep bombing the UK with their prototype missiles until they figured out missiles that were really effective and then the UK would have been hosed

That is, of course, if they hadn't stuck their dick in mother russia and gotten their poo poo pushed in

# ¿ Jul 22, 2020 10:58

Zzulu: May 15, 2009; (â°ËvËâ°)

Fury was ridiculous. It really veered off towards cartoonishness at the end when 3 guys in a destroyed tank kill like 200 germans because the germans keep running infront of their guns

The germans are just completely dumbfounded by this stationary heap of metal and can't figure out what to do

# ¿ Jul 23, 2020 10:53

Zzulu: May 15, 2009; (â°ËvËâ°)

The italians dunked their own dictator though right? They get some cred for that

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On 25 April 1945, Allied troops were advancing into northern Italy, and the collapse of the Sal� Republic was imminent. Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci set out for Switzerland, intending to board a plane and escape to Spain.[183] Two days later on 27 April, they were stopped near the village of Dongo (Lake Como) by communist partisans named Valerio and Bellini and identified by the Political Commissar of the partisans' 52nd Garibaldi Brigade, Urbano Lazzaro. During this time, Petacci's brother posed as a Spanish consul.[184] After several unsuccessful attempts to take them to Como they were brought to Mezzegra. They spent their last night in the house of the De Maria family.

The next day, Mussolini and Petacci were both summarily shot, along with most of the members of their 15-man train, primarily ministers and officials of the Italian Social Republic. The shootings took place in the small village of Giulino di Mezzegra and were conducted by a partisan leader who used the nom de guerre Colonnello Valerio. His real identity is unknown, but conventionally he is thought to have been Walter Audisio, who always claimed to have carried out the execution, though another partisan controversially alleged that Colonnello Valerio was Luigi Longo, subsequently a leading communist politician in post-war Italy.[185][186] Mussolini was killed two days before Hitler and his wife Eva Braun committed suicide. The RSI only survived for another four days before Mussolini's defence minister, Rodolfo Graziani�the lone Italian marshal who remained loyal to Fascism after 1943�surrendered its remains on 1 May.

On 29 April 1945, the bodies of Mussolini, Petacci, and the other executed Fascists were loaded into a van and moved south to Milan. At 3:00 am, the corpses were dumped on the ground in the old Piazzale Loreto. The piazza had been renamed "Piazza Quindici Martiri" (Fifteen Martyrs' Square) in honor of fifteen anti-Fascists recently executed there.[187]

After being kicked and spat upon, the bodies were hung upside down from the roof of an Esso gas station.[188] The bodies were then stoned from below by civilians. This was done both to discourage any Fascists from continuing the fight, and as an act of revenge for the hanging of many partisans in the same place by Axis authorities. The corpse of the deposed leader was subject to ridicule and abuse. Fascist loyalist Achille Starace was captured and sentenced to death and then taken to the Piazzale Loreto and shown the body of Mussolini. Starace, who once said of Mussolini "He is a god,"[189] saluted what was left of his leader just before he was shot. The body of Starace was subsequently hung up next to that of Mussolini.

After his death and the display of his corpse in Milan, Mussolini was buried in an unmarked grave in the Musocco cemetery, to the north of the city. On Easter Sunday 1946, his body was located and dug up by Domenico Leccisi and two other neo-Fascists.

On the loose for months�and a cause of great anxiety to the new Italian democracy�Mussolini's body was finally "recaptured" in August, hidden in a small trunk at the Certosa di Pavia, just outside Milan. Two Fransciscan brothers were subsequently charged with concealing the corpse, though it was discovered on further investigation that it had been constantly on the move. Unsure what to do, the authorities held the remains in a kind of political limbo for ten years, before agreeing to allow them to be re-interred at Predappio in Romagna, his birthplace. Adone Zoli, the then-current prime minister, contacted Donna Rachele, the dictator's widow, to tell her he was returning the remains, as he needed the support of the far-right in parliament, including Leccisi himself. In Predappio the dictator was buried in a crypt (the only posthumous honor granted to Mussolini). His tomb is flanked by marble fasces, and a large idealized marble bust of him is above the tomb

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 16:47

Zzulu: May 15, 2009; (â°ËvËâ°)

People who idealize nazis are idiots who don't know much about history or choose to actively ignore most of it

# ¿ Jul 27, 2020 10:30

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