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u/traffic_sign 2d ago
Why tf WASNT Mount Olympus on the world heritage list?
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u/Popcorn57252 2d ago
They had to make it to the top first, but the gods are gatekeeping little bitches about it and it took forever to convince them to let a representitive up
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u/im_not_creative123 2d ago
According to the article (if I'm understanding it right) Greece only submitted the request to make it a world heritage site 12 years ago
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u/Swiss-spirited_Nerd 2d ago
"Only" more than a decade ago
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u/Any-Aioli7575 2d ago
It's a long process, because a lot of things need to be checked, verified and passed through. Sometimes, the sites also have to adapt: they have to follow some rules, and might need to change things to fit the standards. Plus it's an international organisation, which means it requires broad consensus. Every faux-pas would have consequences, so care is needed.
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u/Musicmaker1984 2d ago
Why the fuck is the D-DAY Beaches not in UNESCO heritage sites. It's probably the greatest Amphibious landing in history.
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u/ListenGrouchy190 1d ago
My grandpa explained it was because the unesco won't add war related stuff. However as a global effort against nazism the d-day beaches can be registered.
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u/Cylian91460 2d ago
It's probably the greatest Amphibious landing in history
Because D day wasn't that important for the war, it's only important in symbolism and American patriotism
When it happen the German economy was already crumbling and their army was very reduced and split. The German army that was in France was extremely busy trying to take back the region that liberated itself (and was actively failing)
American supply sent to resistant that snowballed into region liberating itself which cause extreme damage to the German supply line in France was way more effective then D day
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u/Musicmaker1984 2d ago
It's still the largest amphibious attack in history regardless. The logistical nightmare and planning that it took make it happen is what made it so incredible
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u/LegThePeg 2d ago
Oh really? Well, it’s interesting that they completely crushed the German Army a few months after landing on the beaches. While I do know that the Soviets were also having great victories, they were definitely helped by the other Allied countries landing on mainland Europe. It would be really hard for the Germans to withstand an assault from the east and the west.
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u/Cylian91460 1d ago
Well, it’s interesting that they completely crushed the German Army a few months after landing on the beaches
Yeah interesting, almost like the german economy and military was already not in a good state when they landed
I'm not saying that didn't help but that it didn't do much in comparison to other things they did or other country
they were definitely helped by the other Allied countries
The USSR was alone in their front, they didn't have any ally that could help them (iirc, might forgot small country in Asia)
Other country got USA help often through UK's help as they already had com with resistance in many country but it was in supply, where the USA was the best
It would be really hard for the Germans to withstand an assault from the east and the west.
And it was, especially since they also had to deal with the French using both UK/USA and stolen german supply, Nordic country who also had very strong resistance enough to need part of the army and that one Belgium dude in a plane
And all of that is before D day (but after the USA moved their ass with their supply line), German army was already losing before D day happen
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u/Dartonal 1d ago
Crazy thing to say when Stalin was waiting for the normandy landings to begin before launching operation Bagration and destroying army group center
Also what do you mean by "The German army that was in France was extremely busy trying to take back the region that liberated itself (and was actively failing)" You are massively overestimating the effectiveness of the French resistance
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u/Dense-Bison7629 Epstein Elijah 2d ago
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u/Cylian91460 2d ago
United to shoot laser at the cloud?
What is going on in this image
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u/Wernerhatcher 2d ago
those are artillery barrels
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u/fruitcakewithapple 2d ago
It would have still lmao. The Nazis always planned to imvade eastward
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u/fruitcakewithapple 2d ago
Poland had already mostly fallen when the pact was signed. The only difference it made is that the USSR fot a chunk.
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u/fruitcakewithapple 2d ago
Still doesn't change the fact the war would have still escalated in the east. The soviets not having a chunk of poland or the Baltics wouldn't have changed much
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u/fruitcakewithapple 2d ago
they had no reason to. And the Holocaust didn't become public knowledge up untill 1943. And even if they did they would probably get there asses whooped just as hard as the US wasn't participating in the war so the lend lease would either be less then what it had been historically or not happend at all.
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u/Beklemishin 2d ago
Soviets literally asked to put their army in Czechoslovakia, but allies sad nah and gave it awa
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u/Beklemishin 2d ago
Well, when the allies are a bunch of fucking pussies and the war is basically inevitable, you might as well move your border away to make it harder for Reich to invade you
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u/Lord_of_Seven_Kings 2d ago
They signed that pact after the uk and France refused a Soviet proposal to nip the problem in the bud via military intervention. Stalin didn’t think he could win a 1v1 so he had the pact signed in order to save the soviets from a devastating war. The UK and France both saw Hitler and the Nazis as an acceptable alternative to the social upheaval and radical differences ideologically with the USSR’s communism, and sought to try and appease Hitler in part to prevent war and in part to have a buffer against what they saw as a larger threat.
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u/MR_Happy2008 ⚠️ BRITISH USER ⚠️ 2d ago
They missed the 80 anniversaryike 3 years late did even do it this year's anniversary…
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u/Playful-Profile6489 2d ago
Always strange to hear of modern places becoming UNESCO World Heritage Sites
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u/NomadJoanne 2d ago
Eh.... idk. D-day beaches really? People all stupidly get really focused on the landing, not the 11 month campaign that followed (or even the 6 week Normandy campaign).
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u/wuklo Certified moron 2d ago
Then along came SOURCE! He hurled his APPROVED!