Boba Fett Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 What's that structure in the background? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davidu Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 A mausoleum built before 1989. It is truly beatiful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boba Fett Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Neat. For whom? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edric O Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 It's a World War II mausoleum, in memory of communist and anti-fascist war heroes.I really like it. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boba Fett Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 Could I have the name and location? Dad's been to East Europe as an ADC, that was a long time back though. Maybe he's been there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edric O Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 I'm not sure what its official name is, but it stands in a park called Parcul Carol. If you ask for the big mausoleum in Parcul Carol you can't miss it. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davidu Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 As far as I know... it was built as a mausoleum for the communist leaders to come.The imbecils who run the country today wanted to tear it down because it was made by communists. By the same reasoning they should demolish half the country. Anyway.@Fett: if your father visited Romania before '89 the park was named "Parcul Libertatii" (Freedom park), it's present name being "Parcul Carol" in the honor of modern Romania's first king. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edric O Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 As far as I know... it was built as a mausoleum for the communist leaders to come.I'm pretty sure it was built as a mausoleum for communist fighters in WW2...@Fett: if your father visited Romania before '89 the park was named "Parcul Libertatii" (Freedom park), it's present name being "Parcul Carol" in the honor of modern Romania's first king.You know, I find that extremely ironic. After 1989 a whole bunch of streets and places got renamed because their old names supposedly sounded too communistic. But why did they rename the park? Does "freedom" sound too communistic? ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davidu Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 I have no idea :D The whole area got built in 1906 as a great exposition near the old Filaret railway station. It housed many buildings and such to show Romania's progresses since King Carol I came to power in 1866. After the expozition closed some of the buildings and arrangements were considered to be googd enough to form a park. After WII the communists demolished most of the theme buildings, built the great brigde and the mausolaeum. After '89 the renamed the park in honor of it's indirect creator.Edric, the phonomenon with old words is quite interesting: "camarad" - became unused because is sounded too Nazi as it was used by the Romanian Right-wing party before WWII, "tovaras" - became unused because it was extensevely used during the communist regime, and even patriotism is viewed either as communist or nazi. It is painful to see that because the communist regime imposed patriotism as a virtue, most of the population now loath their country just because the communists seemed to "love" it more. And moreover people are "afraid" to say they love their country because they don't want to be viewed as extremists. But this is happening all over the world. It must be the globalisation :'( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuvollari Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 Isnt that the Park Carol???I went there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davidu Posted May 12, 2006 Share Posted May 12, 2006 You were here?Cool, when? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edric O Posted May 12, 2006 Share Posted May 12, 2006 It is painful to see that because the communist regime imposed patriotism as a virtue, most of the population now loath their country just because the communists seemed to "love" it more. And moreover people are "afraid" to say they love their country because they don't want to be viewed as extremists. But this is happening all over the world. It must be the globalisation :'( Well, to be fair, patriotism is actually a very un-communist thing (since communism is deeply internationalist and urges the workers of the whole world to unite). It was stalinism that came up with all the patriotic stuff that gets associated with "communism" in Eastern Europe today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chatfsh Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 In the spirit of putting a face with the name Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyborg Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 You are the best looking fencer I've ever seen in my whole life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mihail Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 Wow! Gosh! Awesome!...Nice kitchen. ^-^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chatfsh Posted August 20, 2006 Share Posted August 20, 2006 Thanks guys. Yes, I am particularly fond of the granite countertops that I had installed in the kitchen last year. Perhaps this year, I'll have the cabinets re-done. 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyborg Posted August 20, 2006 Share Posted August 20, 2006 Yeah, the kitchen is really nice looking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exatreide Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 just got this taken, pretty hawt I have to say.PFC :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUNWOUNDS Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 good to know you're defending us. i appreciate people who risk their lives so i dont have to. *salute*now drop and gimme 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acriku Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Holy shit you're black!lol sorry, had to say the first thing that came to my head.Anyway, here's a more recent picture of me (and before anyone asks, I'm single, but only available to chicks with granite countertops): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyborg Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Anyway, here's a more recent picture of me (and before anyone asks, I'm single, but only available to chicks with granite countertops): :- That rules chatfsh out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chatfsh Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 :- That rules chatfsh out...Curse you, Cyborg! I Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemafakei Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 I'm sure we can arrange a nice granite cell in the dungeon for Cyborg if not... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowzeewee Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 Don't expect anything nice coming from the mouth(or fingers, in this case) of a Norwegian whose head is so full of granite. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyborg Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 Curse you, Cyborg! I Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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