When I fail to point out something cool

Photo shamelessly taken from Wikipedia

I completely forgot to point out that yesterday was German Unity Day!  What's even worse is that the only reason I was reminded of this was an update to the game War Thunder on Steam. I decided to skim all the major mainstream news sites to see if this was mentioned anywhere, but I didn't see anything about this on any mainstream media sires. Likely because it's an event in history that completely exposed the horrific nature of living under communist/socialist rule, but you don't have to take my word for it.  

Also shamelessly taken from the Wikipedia article.

Funny how certain people (mostly socialists) here love to wail and complain about how horrible the United States of America is. Obviously any country will have issues and we have more than our fair share that needs fixing, but when a large chunk of people who have actually lived in socialist countries will risk death just to come here, maybe we ain't so bad. 

Kinda like how politicians, activists and the news is happy to jump on the bandwagon of declaring we are all horrible, classist, sexist, racist, and corrupt, but then the news will still be reporting people from an endless list of places are constantly making caravans to rush the border. 

Good riddance and don't come back.

Well, back to the original topic, Germans have suffered quite a bit the last century to atone for their horrible and horrific choices, but the wall coming down and the country unifying was a big ray of hope not just for Germany, but the entire world.  This also may have directly contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union; all of it starting with a big bureaucratic screw up by some guy in the eastern socialist side. 

Fast forward to today, and Germany may be on the verge of paying for it's own sins again, with a host of other problems (including a resurgence of socialist ideas) creeping up.  Hopefully, not only Germans, but the rest of the word can still look back at this event and try to work towards a better future (and hopefully take advantage of more socialist screw ups, too!). 

Happy (belated) Unity Day!