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.
@randahl I do not remmeber much. It was 30+ years ago.
I remeber that I was wondering why they had it and also what it was used for... the connection to the nazi terror - I beleive - I made years later in school.
@thijs_lucas the nazi occupation was certainly part of my childhood conversations with parents as well.
A story that stuck with me, was how the nazi occupation forces had placed a gate on the road into town where my dad grew up.
One late night, a young woman came back to town, and the gate seemed unmanned. Unable to get hold of any nazis, she got off her bike and opened the gate herself, got onto her bike, and continued her ride into town.
What she did not know was, the gate only…
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seemed unmanned, because the soldier responsible for checking people, had walked behind a building to relieve himself.
Coming back to the gate, the foreign soldier realised, the young woman had broken the nazi-imposed rules by opening the gate without his permission.
He then aimed his rifle, shot her in the back and killed her instantly.
There are thousands of these stories. And more are now being written in Ukraine.
Putin must be stopped.
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Randahl Fink
Thijs Lucas