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Less convenient to use does not equal impossible to use.

They are losing those, but they haven't lost them yet. It'll take at least a few years of actually living without them for the people to wake up and revolt. The end of serfdom took from 1860's or so until 1918.

It will take time but it will happen.

Staatseisenbahn möchte ich eigentlich auch – im Grund genommen.

Das alte ging aber nicht wirklich. Wir hatten eine Eisenbahnlinie, die fast bis zur Staatsgrebze führte, und eine andere, die 15 km nach der Grenze anfing. Und zwischen den beiden Bahnöfen ... Nichts.

Was könnte funktionieren wäre eine einzige EU-breite Unionsbahn. Z.B. in der Ukraine wird gelobt, wie gut alles bezüglich der Eisenbahn läuft – sogar mitten in einem genozidälen Krieg. Und das läuft dort so gut genau, weil es eine reine Staatsbahn ist.

Aber, eine EU-"Staatsbahn" wäre für vielen hier echt abschreckend. Die EU-Lösung für das war, Staatsbahnen zu den anderen Ländern quasi ohne weiteres fahren zu lassen, wie es hier der Fall war: Die niederländische Staatsbahn in Deutschland ist hier das Thema. Aber unsere Wettbewerbubgsverfahren hat strukturelle Probleme, die die ganze Eisenbahn verlahmen. Wenn eventuell die EU-System bezüglich Eisenbahn in der Ukraine im Kraft tritt, werden wir sicherlich sehen, dass auch dort alles bei der Eisenbahn so wird wie hier bei uns in der EU...

Trotz allem... Das jetzige ist weniger schlecht als das vorherige 26-Staatsbahnen-ohne-Zusammenarbeit-Prinzip. Die neue Verbindung von Vilnius nach Tallinn hätte mit der alten Staatabahn-Lösung nie wirklichkeit werden können. Wie wäre die EU-Unionsbahn?

Some earlier GTA could be better for this. I tried driving around for the scenery, but there was so much random violence happening around that my kid got scared. I did manage to explain everything upside down in the end, so no harm done, but it did not feel nice.

GTA3:SA still wouldn't have had that effect, I think(?)

At what age?

Depends on what's meant here with "GTA". GTA 1 was not really that bad. There's shooting, which is not cool, but it's not very graphic.

Then there's GTA2 where you collect people from the street and turn them into kebab meat with a lot of screaming. And, starting from GTA3, the games start getting seriously.bad fir children.

But, the meme might mean GTA1 or GTA2.

This, of course, doesn't mean that GTA is good for kids. It just means that something else is even worse.

This answer comes super late, but is perhaps still of use for you.

Personally, I prefer Hufvudstadsbladet. It's in Swedish and my Swedish is far from good, but I still feel that among all newspapers in Finland that one has the best investigative journalism, and it does a better job with remaining neutral than other newspapers do. Its only noteworthy bias is that it makes relatively big fuss about small events in small towns if those towns are by majority Swedish-speaking. And since what happens in those towns is largely irrelevant to me, that bias does not really matter. It just means that there is a certain low percentage of news articles that I skip.

Besides that, there's also http://yle.fi/uutiset/tuoreimmat that I like to follow regularly. There was a purge some ten-ish years ago where people who were not good enough friends with the political party Keskusta were removed from all decisionmaking, and that has not been reversed. However, that has apparently not hurt Yle's neutrality in a very bad manner. I dislike Keskusta a lot but Yle's news have not become uninteresting for me, because they are still neutral enough.

To my knowledge, there have been no plans that this decision would cover. The only talk there has been about sending foreign troops to Ukraine would be as a peacekeeping force, and that would be organized in a way explicitly allowed by this decision.

This decision was probably made to cater to some Bulgarian domestic discourse, right? Anybody got any idea which one?

Voihan sitä lähemmäskin matkustaa kuin tuonne asti :))

Itsellänikin kyllä on tuo suunta suunnitelmissa, ehkä tälle syksylle. Mukaan voisi ehkä ympätä vähän Ranskaa Pariisin ja Välimerenrannikon muodossa. FB:n puolella esiin tuotu toimiva reitti yöjunalla Perpignanista herätti inspiraatiota.

http://back-on-track.eu/ sisältää oikein mainion kartan Euroopan yöjunista.

True, but there is the army that handed all the logistical trucks to the Red Army. The backbone of the Red Army was US material support. They provided the manpower, USA provided the tools. Plus, USA and UK provided a notable amount of manpower from another direction. And the tools for that manpower as well.

It is true that the Soviet army did a lot there. But still, the Russian claim that they did basically all of the job, especially when a huge chunk of "their" soldiers were actually from Ukraine and not from the Russia, is a lie.

It was a coöperational effort of several countries. USA could not have freed us of Nazis without UK and USSR. And USSR could not have freed us of nazis without USA and UK.

Also, in this case we are discussing here it is crystal clear that this was an actual intended nazi salute. Those other ones in the photos probably were not – at least each picture has visual cues that point towards the hand gesture having had a different meaning than on this one now.

On first one the fingers are much more open than now. On the second one the arm is quite low and the facial expression looks mostly worried. Probably he's just waving his hand there. And the same goes for the rest of the pictures. Especially the facial expressions are very different from the video shown now, where there is nothing ambiguous.

Of course, if the context is shown, some of those photos could prove to really have been hitler salutes, but I highly doubt they were.