68 Years Ago Today

[mrtn]

'You lot'

Did you miss the great Soviet invasion, erhm, I mean liberation of Denmark in 1946, with tank armies running rough shod over Jutland, and the famous Red Army paratroopers seizing Copenhagen by air? I'm glad my grandparents got out of Århus in time and only had to suffer through one invasion.

I thought every Marxist historian had heard about this?

[Undave]

Well we all know what happened when Albert Einstein invented time travel and went back to kill Hitler. Stalin invaded the world and then got assassinated by his general staff so some bald guy with funny tubes in his head could make clones of himself...


Now was that GCSE history or Command and Conquer: Red Alert...?

Spray varnish fumes do funny things to the memory

[BigMike]

Pretty sure that was real history Dave.

After all we all remember the iron curtain...

and that time mammoth tanks destroyed Paris

[grant]

Oh yeah. I remember that! Those tanks were awesome!

[airborne321]

On my opinian, I think D Day was much more important than Italy on our behlaf. It showed the might of the allies and the turning point of the war and how God was on our side and lead us to victory.

[Phil]

So that's what Rick Priestley does on his days off...



Phil

[janner]

'You lot'

Did you miss the great Soviet invasion, erhm, I mean liberation of Denmark in 1946, with tank armies running rough shod over Jutland, and the famous Red Army paratroopers seizing Copenhagen by air? I'm glad my grandparents got out of Århus in time and only had to suffer through one invasion.

I thought every Marxist historian had heard about this?

They did shell the hell out of Bornholm because the garrison commander was under orders to surrender to the Brits. They then hung around for a year or so. Humm, maybe that's why the Bornholm (unofficial) flag has a red backing - sneaky buggers have been commies all along!

[Eumerin]

'You lot'

Did you miss the great Soviet invasion, erhm, I mean liberation of Denmark in 1946, with tank armies running rough shod over Jutland, and the famous Red Army paratroopers seizing Copenhagen by air? I'm glad my grandparents got out of Århus in time and only had to suffer through one invasion.

I thought every Marxist historian had heard about this?

They did shell the hell out of Bornholm because the garrison commander was under orders to surrender to the Brits. They then hung around for a year or so. Humm, maybe that's why the Bornholm (unofficial) flag has a red backing - sneaky buggers have been commies all along!

Sounds suspiciously like the "liberation" of Bucharest, which occurred on August 30, three days after the Romanians removed the last German presence from the city.

Three guesses when the Soviets arrived, and the first two don't count!