Liberation!

[_Philospher_]

What famous city/country/state/etc.. would you have wanted to Liberate or be apart of the liberation? Personally, I would of loved to have liberated the French from the Nazi forces in WW2. ( I can imagine the party after allied tanks went by. :tank: )

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[tossi]

I wanne free Tibet!

 

[Marla_Singer]

I definitly would have loved to free Paris on the August, 25th 1944. It was such a great day. My grand parents often talk to me about the day when Paris had been freed. Obviously, it's the day they remember the best in their lives.

In my small scale, the day I remember the most as a mutual celebrity is the July 12th, 1998 when France had won the World Cup. Oh boy, they were 1.5 million people on the Champs-Elysées !! It was party all over the city ! I remember the subway was balancing because everybody were jumping in it !! Everyone was kissing each other... It was my biggest fiesta ever, by far.

For example, the December 31st, 1999 fiesta was still to be remembered but a lot less spontaneous and funny (People weren't kissing each other in the street like after the World Cup)

 

[Hitro]

I want to liberate the state from federal rule!

Well, I thought about saying France or the Benelux countries in 1944/45 but on second thought that doesn't sound like such a good idea.

But I would like to have been present when Germany won the World Cup in 1954, preferably without knowing it before.

 

[Amenhotep7]

I would have liberated Egypt from Persian/Graeco-Roman conquest!

I would also want to liberate Tibet, an it would've been cool if I could have taken Paris by storm in liberating it from Nazi.

MERRY CHRISTMAS, HITLER!
:tank::soldier:

 

[andrewgprv]

I probably would have liked to liberate India from the British. In my eyes it was the most noble liberation in all of history. I would like to have known Ghandi personally and been able to learn from him.

 

[Stefan Haertel]

I'd love to liberate myself from Bavarian rule. What a feeling that would be...

 

[sabo]

I would have loved to be there the day women declared liberation and burned their bra's... oops, you meant city right?

 

[privatehudson]

Being in the forces would have been alright, but given the recriminations in the aftermath of liberation I would personally not liked to have hung around to discover who would be accused of being a collaborator (rightly or wrongly).

Something I always remembered was reading about this British recce tank officer who was pushing on through eastern france during the race to the belgian border. Passing this town he found some two dozen german soldiers who surrendered on the spot. Unable to remain in the town due to a need to move on he found the local resistance leader and in his thick scottish accent asked him to "hang on to these prisoners for me". The next day he returned to the town and entered the square only to find all 24 hanging from lamposts.....

Finding the leader he demanded an explanation, but never discovered whether the resistance leader truly did misunderstand him and thought he said "hang these prisoners for me" or did it simply out of revenge.

War is hell, I don't think I'd be that happy being a part of any of it.

 

[dannyevilcat]

Being able to liberate a place like Treblinka would be like instantly being given a reason for having been born.

 

[Chauliodus]

I'd only have liberated Paris if the German general inchange had done what he was ordered and burned the city.

 

[Kamilian]

I would've loved to liberate either Warsaw (especially in 1944, when the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was at its height, and Soviet troops were not that far from Warsaw but did not attack the city, letting the uprising collapse and killing one of its orchestrators - Mordechai Anielewicz RIP, Mordechai ), or one of the concentration camps from the Nazis.
EDIT: Well they didn't kill him but their refusal to go into Warsaw when the Uprising occured contributed to his death at the hands of the Nazis. IIRC, he was killed when the Nazis bombarded the Ghetto, reducing most, if not all, of it to mountains of rubble.

 

[shunzhi]

Originally posted by andrewgprv
I probably would have liked to liberate India from the British. In my eyes it was the most noble liberation in all of history. I would like to have known Ghandi personally and been able to learn from him.

How can the greatest humiliation of The British Empire, the fall of its most prized gems and the separation of India into two countries, be a noble liberation?

 

[Chauliodus]

Not to mention learning from a hypocrite like Ghandi.

 

[andrewgprv]

Originally posted by shunzhi


How can the greatest humiliation of The British Empire, the fall of its most prized gems and the separation of India into two countries, be a noble liberation?

Well alot of people don't see the British Empire as a good thing.

India was a huge nation that was liberated with little blood spilled. Considering liberations have a history of violenece I would call that noble.

 

[andrewgprv]

Originally posted by Chauliodus
Not to mention learning from a hypocrite like Ghandi.

Elaborate please.

 

[MrPresident]

I would have liked to have been in Berlin during the fall of the Berlin wall.

 

[mintyfreshdeath]

I'd like to liberate Australia from that old blood sucking relic of an age gone long ago - The Queen.
I would also like to liberate a leg of ham from the fridge.

 

[Chauliodus]

Elaborate please.

He's refusal to allow the Untouchables equal rights, wanting them, rather, to know their place and be quiet. He never defended them, only wanted people to pity them instead of treating them like ****.

 

[mintyfreshdeath]

Well, I just like ham you know? Don't you like ham?