[ rack mountable ]

[whiteplastik]

raine: anything else you want in the envelope
corey: you?
r: hmmm
c: will you fit?
c: i can bend the laws of quantum physics for you, if need be
r: no .. i am uh.. portable though
r: and rack mountable
r: hha
c: ummm
c: that sounds dirty
r: i only take up 2 spaces
r: err
r: i know
r: i nearly said 2 slots
c: hahahahaha
raine: but thats outta hand

Comments

[whiteplastik]

i explained this about 3 or four entries back but here you go.

this is a recriuitment poster for the volunteer legion niederlande, a 2,600 man regiment and component of the 2nd ss brigade on the leningrad front. "niederlande" as it is referred to swiftly obtained a reputation for valor and achievement. in 1942, legionaires succeeded in capturing the commander of the 11th soviet army and 3,500 of his soldiers. one enlisted man, sturmann gerardus mooyman, became the first west european volunteer to receive the knight's cross decoration after singlehandedly destroying 14 soviet tanks in one day in february 1943. the legion later formed the basis for the "nederland" brigade and division.

[le_futurisme]

You know I'm the last person you need to tell about how aesthetics can be divorced from context, meaning, etc. reappropriated and fetishized without necessarily retaining stigmas and other associations.&I suppose that I'm a postmodernist in that sense... & I'd be a liar if i wasnt attracted to similar aesthetics. however ours is certainly not a consensus view, and LiveJournal is a public forum. Case in point, this reply has taken me about 2 hours to write because I'm at work and every time someone walks behind me I have to minimize the window. So you kinda set yourself up for these kinds of questions... your use of the above image is probably in support of sturmann gerardus mooyman, the one man berserker outside of political affiliations? Is that a portrait of Sturmann?

As for WWII heroes, my heroes are the women of Tankograd.. I watched a special on them when I was in London... which is 24/7 WWII tv except they pretend the brits won the war and not us, haha. Anyway, Tankograd was an industrial town that sprung up pumping out amazing volumes of well designed but shoestring budget tanks... The women of tankograd would build their tank and then drive it... They talked about how because of frame differences between them and their colleagues they'd get back from a tour and it would take their bodies 3 days to recover.. they didnt mind and they were these total hard ass old ladies.. and there were pictures of them posing on their tanks with jackboots and jesus corey you should have seen it it was fucking HOT... haha... anyway that little old lady on the tv talking about kicking ass in the tank she built is my personal WWII hero.

"Women in dungarees weld tanks together in Chelyabinsk’s tank factories, called "Tankograd." The Soviets train armored regiments on the spot, and create one from the workers, asking for volunteers. 36 hours after the posters go up, they have 4,363 applications to join the regiment, 1,253 from women.

Even in the hideous Gulag system, where hundreds of thousands of prisoners live and slave in misery, munitions production is high. The prisoners hate Stalin - but fear Hitler more. "

[le_futurisme]

i mean they were old ladies on the TV. when they were in their tanks they were teh sexx0r

[cristobat]

Oh, so Nazis, huh? Should have known. :D