Red Mosquito

It’s 80 years today since VE day.

I do.

I do as well. Even if I was born many years after the war, we heard about it in class all the time, on tv all the time, people were around that remembered it. I do think it's a little different for younger people. It doesn't seem to be as much in their mind, as it was in ours. Of course there are plenty of movies still being made about it, and they will also learn about it in history class.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_ ... _II_(1945)

Been following this day by day these last few months.

I’d love to detach and be unaware of all the posthumous media and nostalgia around it, which only ever glorifies it in one way or another. It’s all propaganda with no basis in reality and ultimately diminishes and even erases all the lives lost and sacrifices made by so many.. Saying that as little or none of them actually show what was being fought and what was at stake. Heck none of them even show the outcome and the horrors found afterwards.

Band of brothers aside, that comes closest on all counts but it’s still from an angle and a soft soap on the reality of it in the ways the matter. It’s entertainment though so what do you expect.
Still a great series though. Need to watch it again. My pal watches it once a year. Not a bad idea.

When it comes to entertainment/movies made from the war, it differs wildly, from the absurd to the realistic, even to pure pop. I do agree that Band Of Brothers is a wonderful mini series. But I do think it's far from the only one. There are plenty of good movies made from the war. Of course the atrocities were awful, so I can understand seeing the entertainment aspect of it as a negative, even if it's been 80 years.

Sadly post-WW2 was still filled with atrocities. Stalin and Mao, got millions of lives killed on their watch. You've had the Korean war, the Vietnam war, civil wars in Nigeria and Congo, and plenty of other conflicts or famine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_w ... death_toll

Today you have the conflicts in Israel/Palestine, Ukraine, Sudan, and more.

You should think defeating the Nazis would make the world a more peaceful place.

8th May 1945 Oslo, VE day, the German troops in Norway surrender



13th May 1945, Oslo, the crown prince returns



7th June 1945 Oslo, the king returns (symbolically, exactly five years after leaving)

VE Day London 1945

All i saw there was Guinnes is good for you

Beautiful pics thanks for sharing those.

World War 2 movies (incl miniseries):

1940s Casablanca, The Best Years Of Our Lives, Twelve O’Clock High, Mrs. Miniver
1950s The Bridge on the River Kwai, Stalag 17, From Here To Eternity, A Man Escaped
1960s Judgment at Nuremberg, The Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare,The Great Escape
1970s Tora! Tora! Tora!, A Bridge Too Far, Cross of Iron, Patton
1980s Das Boot, Empire Of The Sun, Come And See, Grave Of The Fireflies
1990s La vita è bella, Schindler’s List, The Thin Red Line, Saving Private Ryan
2000s Band Of Brothers, The Pianist, Letters from Iwo Jima, Max Manus
2010s The King's Speech, Dunkirk, Hacksaw Ridge, The Pacific
2020s The Zone Of Interest, Oppenheimer, Masters of the Air, War Sailor

dimejinky99 wrote:All i saw there was Guinness is good for you

Beautiful pics thanks for sharing those.

I do enjoy a Guinness now and then myself.

2 minutes Radio silence across Europe at 12pm to mark VE Day

It’s hard not to thinking about the social-psychological environment of WW2, considering we’re living (at least in America) something very similar now.

its how i keep track of history. BWWII, AWWII

every day

I watched The Keep last night, so at least once. Hard to believe that really happened.

Every day

VE day in Russia today.

Anders wrote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_ ... _II_(1945)

Been following this day by day these last few months.

Right after my daughter was born and I had a lot of time just sitting on the couch, I got into a YouTube series called The Great War, which posted one video per week that covered what happened during that week 100 years before during WWI. They did eventually do the same thing for WW2 (although not matched up so many years later), although I never got around to watching it: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIk ... 9k3grY_kYd

Thank you. I'll subscribe to their channel. Here's one video: