Posted on 02/24/2021 3:25:32 PM PST by nickcarraway
During the whole month of February, starting this Monday, the people of Brussels are called upon to choose the new name of the longest tunnel in the country, Leopold II, from among 15 names of famous women, Brussels Mobility said in a press release.
The renaming procedure “to symbolically reinforce the place of women in the public space” began last year with a call for ideas to citizens and the reflection of a committee of experts.
Currently, 43% of the streets in Brussels bear the name of a person. Of these, only 6.1% of the streets are named after a woman.
Fifteen candidates are in the running, ten of which were selected by the committee of experts and five by the people of Brussels:
The ballot is open for one month via Brussels Mobility’s website, where more information can be found on each candidate.
The official name change will take place at the end of the renovation of the tunnel.
Which is why it was folly to get into WWI, especially since a large part of the propaganda was about the alleged German atrocities in Belgium. Germans were par for the course in Europe at the time. Whether they won or lost, had no bearing on the US. They had no colonies in the Western Hemisphere, unlike Britain and France.
Goebbels complained about the Italians treatment of Jews - it was too lax according to him.
Mussolini did make some anti-Jewish laws, but he wasn't willing to go to the extremes of Hitler.
The Italians refused to deport Jews from Italy or Croatia to Auschwitz.
Hitler was gassed himself in WWI, and so that probably highly influenced his decision.
Thanks for that memory. Saturday mornings......
Mussolini was a demagogue, apparently a rapist, a dictator, a thug, a philosophical fool and an egomaniac. But he didn’t seem democidal in the manner of Hitler, Stalin and the Japanese warlords.
Then there was what the Brits did to the Boers.
All of the Axis powers leaders, Mussolini was not near the level of Hitler, and below Tojo, he was a bad man, of of the 3 he was the least dangerous one.
The Japs also refused to deport Jews from Shanghai, even though the Nazis requested them to do so.
Mussolini was a stupid vain man. His actions in Ethiopia showed how evil he was. He would have done anything for power, even genocide, it’s just that he couldn’t quite convince others to do it, like Hitler could.
Yep. He seems not to have shared Hitler’s genocidal urges toward the Jews
“The Kardashian Hotdog Hallway”
In French, of course.
Mussolini was a criminal who used mustard gas on Ethiopians.
Mussolini was an asset for the Allies, when the Nazis had to bail him out of the Balkans, it cost the Nazis valuable time in launching Operation Barbarossa. They may have reached Moscow before the Winter, had they launched it on time.
Just went to show how useless The League of Nations really was.
Renaming the tunnel because Leopold was a bad guy makes sense. Insisting it be named after a woman is stupid, however.
The world would be a better place today f the US had stayed out and let the WWI end in a draw.
Yeah unlike the Japanese who pulled their weight, Mussolini didn’t that much, he was a drain upon the Axis powers and it showed.
I always wonder if Britain and Germany had allied instead of Britain allying with their traditional enemy, France, when Germany unified in 1871, how different Europe and the World would have been.
I just think England and France didn’t want a “new kid on the block”.
Even the Greeks kicked Italy’s butts right back into Albania.
Belgium?...
‘Hooker hole’?
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