[Veto!]

What's with these people? The treasures of Troy belong to Turkey, from whence they were purloined by Schleimann.

The Turks are so dismayed by ongoing vandalism of ancient sites that the Turkish Army guards all of them, complete with tanks. Not exactly a welcoming sight, but understandable considering the fortune in ancient artifacts that have been stolen.

[LibWhacker]

Sorry about the title. It exceeded the 100 character limit, so I cut out a couple of occurrences of 'to.' Really mangled it. :-(

[RockinRye]

"A legendary collection of gold objects from ancient Troy seized by Soviet troops in Berlin in 1945 should become Russian government property"

It's the least they could do, what with making the Soviet POWs eat each other in camps and everything.

[AntiGuv]

I'd keep the Trojan gold too..

[joshhiggins]

What whiners. The Germans lost it fair and square. Next thing you know they'll be crying that they be given the Sudetenland back.

[wildbill]

Losers Weepers, Looters Keepers!

[SunkenCiv]

See also In Search of the Real Troy.

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[elli1]

Apparently, 'To the victor, go the spoils' loses something in translation to German.

[blam]

The Schleimann gold was/is the largest singe 'find' of gold ever.

[SunkenCiv]

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