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.
Yes, World War I was a disaster, that we are still paying the price for today.
One of the most notorious Nazis was a Belgian, Léon Degrelle.
Yup. One pure SOB. Talk about genocide? He just about invented it, or at least refined it.
Ironically, Goebbels learned a lot of his propaganda techniques, from observing the propaganda the US used to gin up support for entering into WWI.
As far as I’m concerned, Belgium shouldn’t even be a country, should just be divided between France and The Netherlands.
I think FDR was totally suckered for only requiring Russia to go to war against Japan, until three months after VE day. The U.S. should not have helped the USSR one bit until the USSR was willing to go to war against Japan.
Japan surrendered not because of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan, they surrendered because Russia invaded, and sliced through their mainland defenses.
The Japanese meeting that agreed to surrender happened before the second bomb was dropped, but the morning after Russia's invasion.
After what Zhukov did to them in 1939, I think the Japs response was, "Uhhh, no thank you, we've got enough on our hands as it is."
Skorzeny was an interesting character, to say the least. Actually went on to work for the Mossad after the war.
But I was referring to George!
But which is consistent with political correctness being the reason being most renaming projects, not actually honoring morality.
Or "Miserable Fat Belgian Bastard".
But at the same time, it would be a different animal is Germany was invading from the West and Japan from the East.
Japan was victorious against Russia in 1905. And the USSR didn't have the wherewithal to fight on two fronts.
(Remember in 1904/1905, Russia sent a ragtag flotilla to attack the Japanese, but they started in the North Sea and had to go all the way around Africa to get to Japan.
Good point.
As I like to say, Begium is like Randy Newman’s Short People - It’s Got No Reason to Live!
Give Wallonia to the French, Flanders to the Dutch, end the fiction that there’s a need for this country.
My $0.02
Woodrow Wilson was the first really powerful Progressive and did a lot of evil things.
Because of Leopold II, or what? We could fold a lot of countries into other countries. What’s the point?
I think you kind of missed the point of that song.
That’s easy to do with Randy’s songs, “Rednecks” is another example.
Oh, I know, but being too deep ruins a perfectly good snark about a country that, well, has got no reason to live!
Leopold, almost total worthlessness in opposing totalitarianism in the 20th Century, twice with respect to the Germans, then as part of NATO vs. the Soviets. And they’re really just a loose province of France and a loose province of Holland. To answer your earlier question.
Not that I am some kind of fan of Belgium, but I don't think that's accurate.
King Albert and Belgium tried about as well as could be expected for a country of their size and position, and endured great suffering in World War I.
Mainland Belgium had a population of just over 8 million in 1940. How did they do any worse than France? They were overwhelmed in number, resources, and military strategy. But their resilience in fighting allowed the evacuation of Dunkirk.
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