The only country that don’t want to be independent.
Spainiswhite on
why does Britian look like the Lithuanian man who beat the shit out of me at a Jollibee’s
ajensorjay38 on
Imagine if lee Kuan Yew would be the prime minister of Malaysia if they didn’t kick singapore out?
teracoulomb_2 on
Unity was basically a dead letter once Singaporean leaders assumed that its race riots were engineered by reactionary elements in the mainland of the federation and that in turn constituted a “violence” button they could switch on at any moment if they didn’t like how the island was being run.
Source: the new *Albatross File* permanent exhibit in Singapore’s National Library, obviously endorsed by its government but presented using contemporary sources
ayoungwarlock on
But why is Voldemort in charge of British India?
DrHolmes52 on
Two people in Czechoslovakia: “This is stupid, we should break up. Yes.”
Faceless_Deviant on
Fun facts: The treaty in which the union was dissolved was signed in Karlstad, Sweden. At that time, signees had official stamps for stamping documents like these, as a way of signing it.
The negotiations ran in to a bit of trouble though, as it turns out that the Norwegian delegation had forgotten their official stamp at home. Since there was real border tension during this time, with both Norway’s and Sweden’s armies marching towards the border, this was not just an issue of “oops, lets just go back to Norway and get it”.
It was solved by the Norwegians getting to loan and use the deceased former mayor of Karlstad’s stamp, since him and the Norwegian signee’s initials were the same.
So in a strictly legalistic sense, the treaty was never signed correctly and could probably have been called into question by a legal board.
However, nobody really wanted a war, and the Norwegians really wanted to be independent and Sweden didnt really see the union as necessary for security or profitable, so everyone decided to just go with it and get on with business.
rosyvibexz on
Rare footage of a man crying on national TV because he accidentally became a Head of State.
ScottyBoneman on
Great Britain allowed India to become independent.
Catalytic_Crazy_ on
Man that Churchill one is unnerving.
waitthatstaken on
While the overall result of Norway leaving Sweden was that, the actual order of events was a bit more funny in my opinion.
Basically after some political disagreements between parliament and the king, the king said (paraphrasing) “I can’t find any group in parliament to form cabinet with, so I won’t”
Parliament responded (again paraphrasing) “Ok, you just declared that you are no longer our king.”
Tensions *did* rise and there was almost war, but in the end the Swedish king conceded that he had declared that, on the condition of holding a referendum about it. The result was if I remember correctly like 50:1 for separating from Sweden.
The early Norwegian parliament did occasionally just do things that were ballsy as heck. Like when they earlier impeached the entire cabinet.
(Note, exact political terms are somewhat annoying to translate at times. I used ‘parliament’ for ‘stortinget’ and ‘cabinet’ for ‘regjering’, I know it is a bit off but ehhhhhhhhhhh)
nasandre on
Malaysia making a big mistake
daymitjim on
The Swedes are great, we should help preserve them
3escalator on
Norway was sort of semi-independent with their own parliament and constitution though. Their independence from Denmark in 1814 was way more significant to the country.
ApXv on
We had to threaten Sweden with war but then they were like ok
peet192 on
Norway was technically independent from 1814 onwards the parliament just had to Consider the Bernadottes opinion on every decision they made.
UgarMalwa on
*Sweden*
Launches 5000 nukes to Norway
ammar96 on
Mom said it’s my turn to post about MY-SG split with the same image meme.
Sigh…how many times do we Malaysian and Singaporean have to comment we literally had a mutual split? I’m tired of replying the same shit every month. Albatross files have already been decalssified. Just read it.
CurryNarwhal on
It’s been revealed since that Singapore also wanted to gtfo
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The only country that don’t want to be independent.
why does Britian look like the Lithuanian man who beat the shit out of me at a Jollibee’s
Imagine if lee Kuan Yew would be the prime minister of Malaysia if they didn’t kick singapore out?
Unity was basically a dead letter once Singaporean leaders assumed that its race riots were engineered by reactionary elements in the mainland of the federation and that in turn constituted a “violence” button they could switch on at any moment if they didn’t like how the island was being run.
Source: the new *Albatross File* permanent exhibit in Singapore’s National Library, obviously endorsed by its government but presented using contemporary sources
But why is Voldemort in charge of British India?
Two people in Czechoslovakia: “This is stupid, we should break up. Yes.”
Fun facts: The treaty in which the union was dissolved was signed in Karlstad, Sweden. At that time, signees had official stamps for stamping documents like these, as a way of signing it.
The negotiations ran in to a bit of trouble though, as it turns out that the Norwegian delegation had forgotten their official stamp at home. Since there was real border tension during this time, with both Norway’s and Sweden’s armies marching towards the border, this was not just an issue of “oops, lets just go back to Norway and get it”.
It was solved by the Norwegians getting to loan and use the deceased former mayor of Karlstad’s stamp, since him and the Norwegian signee’s initials were the same.
So in a strictly legalistic sense, the treaty was never signed correctly and could probably have been called into question by a legal board.
However, nobody really wanted a war, and the Norwegians really wanted to be independent and Sweden didnt really see the union as necessary for security or profitable, so everyone decided to just go with it and get on with business.
Rare footage of a man crying on national TV because he accidentally became a Head of State.
Great Britain allowed India to become independent.
Man that Churchill one is unnerving.
While the overall result of Norway leaving Sweden was that, the actual order of events was a bit more funny in my opinion.
Basically after some political disagreements between parliament and the king, the king said (paraphrasing) “I can’t find any group in parliament to form cabinet with, so I won’t”
Parliament responded (again paraphrasing) “Ok, you just declared that you are no longer our king.”
Tensions *did* rise and there was almost war, but in the end the Swedish king conceded that he had declared that, on the condition of holding a referendum about it. The result was if I remember correctly like 50:1 for separating from Sweden.
The early Norwegian parliament did occasionally just do things that were ballsy as heck. Like when they earlier impeached the entire cabinet.
(Note, exact political terms are somewhat annoying to translate at times. I used ‘parliament’ for ‘stortinget’ and ‘cabinet’ for ‘regjering’, I know it is a bit off but ehhhhhhhhhhh)
Malaysia making a big mistake
The Swedes are great, we should help preserve them
Norway was sort of semi-independent with their own parliament and constitution though. Their independence from Denmark in 1814 was way more significant to the country.
We had to threaten Sweden with war but then they were like ok
Norway was technically independent from 1814 onwards the parliament just had to Consider the Bernadottes opinion on every decision they made.
*Sweden*
Launches 5000 nukes to Norway
Mom said it’s my turn to post about MY-SG split with the same image meme.
Sigh…how many times do we Malaysian and Singaporean have to comment we literally had a mutual split? I’m tired of replying the same shit every month. Albatross files have already been decalssified. Just read it.
It’s been revealed since that Singapore also wanted to gtfo
Swedish government: No. Swedish people: ok.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A8SAZ8lI4m4&pp=ygUWbm9yd2VnaWFuIGluZGVwZW5kYW5jZQ%3D%3D