Playing With Muspel Fire
at 8:30 pm
(Self Writ, Animals, High Germany, Music, Norse, War)
Both the Bundeswehr and the late Nationale Volksarmee have/had no more legitimacy than Hitler’s mob, but although republican do/did obviously still carry out a little of the great tradition… Torchlight Parades are always so pretty.
Both uniforms are getting on the silly side, with ties and all ( and ugly impracticable Allied-Type helmets; which is kind of ironical now the Yanks are sensibly starting to model their helmets on the stahlhelm… ) and look really remarkably similar despite any supposed ideological differences betwixt state capitalism and the free-market kind.
Note the holy atmosphere of the NVA bash — no doubt anything would be a break from the necessity of writing up a daily report on one’s neighbours; and the poor production values of something shot in 1989 which films like 1962 outside the Iron Curtain. Note also the use of Jingling Johnnies aka La Pavillon Chinois which seem to really take one back…
