Victory Day

[Uncle_Vanya]

Sixty four years ago today, Nazi Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allies and the war in Europe came to an end.

 

[Static]

I'm surprised it's actually not more widely celebrated.

 

[Uncle_Vanya]

Most of the ex-USSR countries hold military parades or other types of celebrations, like bringing flowers to the statues of victory in their countries. Russia celebrates by having a military parade in every city with 30k population and bigger, the biggest one is in Moscow and is broadcasted nationwide and internationally. We celebrate it every year, you guys usually do it ever five years and even then its kinda out of public eye.

This vid gets me in the mood:

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[coRtALoS]

We celebrate it every year, you guys usually do it ever five years and even then its kinda out of public eye.

My guess is politicians and the U.S. play it down to "avoid any sort of resentment against the former Axis countries".

I'm guessing that's what a government spokesperson would say at least.

 

[Uncle_Vanya]

Well you guys are missing out. May 9th is a day then people of the world come together and enjoy family passtimes such as: crucify a German, stone a Romanian, drown a Bulgarian, hang an Italian, stab a Japanese, etc. Good times, very good times.

 

[coRtALoS]

Bahahahaha.

 

[MGCImtR]

xD why 'stone a Romanian', 'drown a Bulgarian' ? The real alliance was Germany, Japan and Italy , RO and BG never really made much of battles. Then both broke the treaty with Germany in 1943.

 

[Uncle_Vanya]

xD why 'stone a Romanian', 'drown a Bulgarian' ? The real alliance was Germany, Japan and Italy , RO and BG never really made much of battles. Then both broke the treaty with Germany in 1943.

Both had troops on the eastern front, Romanians were pwned under Stalingrad, same with Hungarians. Bulgarians I threw in for shits and giggles, they gave us our alphabet a thousand years ago, they're cool.

 

[MGCImtR]

True and thank you

 

[Uncle_Vanya]

Ты Болгар?

 

[MGCImtR]

Конечно.

 

[Uncle_Vanya]

Hmm, always wanted to test the similarities between our languages. I had some luck reading wikipedia articles in Bulgarian, plus there is this one old Bulgarian guy who I see at work atleast once a week (I work at a gas station), the interesting thing is that the phrases that are the same in both our languages he pronounces without any noticeable accent, or I should say he pronounced them with a north Russian accent.

 

[MGCImtR]

Hehe I've studied Rus as my 2nd language for several years (but have forgotten it a lot). Since we have similar words, similar pronounciations, it is not diffictult for BG people to speak it without accent, while for example, I had Russian teachers in Russian and Geography classes and we notice their Russian accent when speaking Bulgarian. Here is why: your 'E' is often pronounced 'ие'. People in my country also have a little different accent from those in West BG and also their 'E' is actually 'ие', so basicly it would be even less noticeable accent when they speak Russian. And ofc we have the same 'P' same pronounciation, also 'йо', 'ьо', it's just not difficult at all to combine the vowels. While Russians who come here - it's relative, some really learn to use mostly rough 'e' like your 'э' and some just always pronounce 'ие' which makes it noticeable. It;s a matter of how fast you learn or what you accept from the heard. But let's not for get that until the 90s Russian was 1st language for C&EEurope as much as English is now, so old generations speak Rus. Some Americans are like ' Russian is even more difficult to learn than Chinese'. Lol, not for us.

 

[Emperor Pan I]

Americans can barely remember when 9/11 was, you think they remember something important that happened 60 years ago.

 

[Uncle_Vanya]

Hehe I've studied Rus as my 2nd language for several years (but have forgotten it a lot). Since we have similar words, similar pronounciations, it is not diffictult for BG people to speak it without accent, while for example, I had Russian teachers in Russian and Geography classes and we notice their Russian accent when speaking Bulgarian. Here is why: your 'E' is often pronounced 'ие'. People in my country also have a little different accent from those in West BG and also their 'E' is actually 'ие', so basicly it would be even less noticeable accent when they speak Russian. And ofc we have the same 'P' same pronounciation, also 'йо', 'ьо', it's just not difficult at all to combine the vowels. While Russians who come here - it's relative, some really learn to use mostly rough 'e' like your 'э' and some just always pronounce 'ие' which makes it noticeable. It;s a matter of how fast you learn or what you accept from the heard. But let's not for get that until the 90s Russian was 1st language for C&EEurope as much as English is now, so old generations speak Rus. Some Americans are like ' Russian is even more difficult to learn than Chinese'. Lol, not for us.

Aye, for a speaker of a slavic language learning other slavic languages is a lot easier than for someone who doesn't know any slavic languages.

 

[Jenny]

What is WW2?

 

[MGCImtR]

What is WW2?

Laugh all you want Jenny, you don't know where all ended in WW2 do you? Americans don't even know what's going on in their neighbouring state, and we expect them to know facts about other countries? Don't worry guys I got over that, when I first came to the US I was like OMG WTF stupid??

 

[Jenny]

I'm not a historian, I'm a lifestorian. I got shit to do in the present.

 

[MGCImtR]

Nor am I, general knowledge.

 

[Uncle_Vanya]

WW2 was then the nation of Germany in collaboration with ultraZionists and space aliens, launched an attack on all of Europe for the lulz. The French made a bold move of surrendering preemptively, while all the other European nations were overrun by hordes of mutated nazizionists. Things were looking bad until the Americans showed up and singlehandedly, in two days, destroyed all the Nazi forces and proceeded to building walmarts, MacDonalds and GAPs all over Europe. And humanity has lived happily ever since, or so says the internets.