Mastodawn

Randahl Fink Jul 4, 2023

I have often wondered why Putin's attack on #Ukraine angers me so deeply.

Walking on the beaches of Lillebælt, I realized it is because of this:

To this day, we Danes still see the concrete fortifications left by the Nazis on our shores, because 1 fascist leader got the insane idea, he had the right to topple our democracy.

He had no right. All he had was the delusion he was somehow supreme to everyone else.

We stopped the fascist in 1945.

We will stop the fascist now.

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GulfofMexico

@randahl Historical monuments should teach a significant truth. So many monuments are designed to teach propaganda. The remnants of those German fortifications qualify as a teaching monument. I hope every Dane has the opportunity to learn from them, not just the fact of their existence, but the truth about a brutal occupation. We historians teach so much about the WWII holocaust, but we often skip through the horrific occupation many Europeans endured. It is part of the story