Countries and bosses

[ardis89.livejournal.com]

Or, well, not exactly.

What I'm wondering, because I had I brilliant and mildly weird idea, and it's in the middle of the night, and I got kind of caught up in it, IS: ... or wait, no. Not a question because I'm too tired to get my brain around that.

Example instead: Prussia obsesses over Frederick the Great, and then there's France and Jeanne d'Arc, and aha, I knew my mind would catch up: do any of the other nations have bosses or just someone of their people that they can't forget, or are really obsessed with, or have conflicted feelings about? Like Russia and the Romanovs.

Who do you think they are? It doesn't have to be one person, can be many, and it doesn't have too be a person that the nation has only positive memories of, right? Just someone they remember and can't forget about.

That being said, I can't help but feel that Sweden is a massive Gustav Adolf fanboy. Of course he is.

But what do you think?

Comments

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

As far as I'm involved N. Italy is fond of his 4 dads, Garibaldi, Mazzini, Vittorio Emanuele and Cavour and is sad they aren't loved as they were previously by his own people.

S. Italy instead has no simpathy for Vittorio Emanuele or Cavour and he's more fond of the Borboni's kings.

Also I guess the both of them still has nightmares about WW2 and the people connected to it.

[wayra90.livejournal.com]

I don't think they still have nightmares, italian people tend to forget easily about their past -.- or just be melancholic and think better of the past. This would explain why there are still so many fascist idiots around here.

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

While for us is a far past the Italies lived it and people who lived it, even if only marginally, still have hard time copying, especially if they went to war or suffered of abuses, saw traumatic scenes or lost someone loved.
Fascism is also still a touchy subject. So while young generations might have forgotten all this (expecially because really, we don't talk about this enough and in details apart for the 'it was bad' thing) I think as a whole that time as a whole is still a nasty scar in the past of Italy.

[wayra90.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's true. I was just thinking the Italies like the representation of the present population's thinking that tends or to be like I said or be just like "yeah it was bad but whatever". It's really a minority the ones who actually care a little.
But thinking of the Italies humanly-wise, it is true what you said.

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

As my mother likes to point out Italy did everything it could to forget it. For a while it wasn't taught in school. When it finally was it was diluted and, thanks to the fact it was the last history topic you were to study at school some schools took longer with the other bits so they could skip it enterely due to lack of time.
We don't even talk much about it in movies (there are books thought and those are scary for the way they describe such horror).
So it's kind of normal we don't feel it that much.
For Ita-chan however it should be different, or at least I think so...