The war against fascism ended in Europe at 2:41 am on May 7th, 1945, as everyone knows, with the official surrender of German Armed Forces High Command Chief-of-Staff, General Alfred Jodl on behalf of the combined Nazi forces in Europe. For this reason, spontaneous celebration erupted throughout Europe as soon as news broke with many…
Last summer, some of the Weird World Wire team were hanging out with Young Pioneer Tours around Eastern Europe. YPT is a company specializing in off the beaten track budget adventures to ‘places your mother would rather you stayed away from’. We soon found ourselves in Moldova, otherwise known as Europe’s poorest and least visited…
In the Nicholas Cage movie Lord of War, one of his most memorable quotes from the main character Yuri Orlov was this: ”After the Cold War, the AK-47 became Russia’s biggest export. After that came vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists.” One of Russia’s lesser-known exports is the cinema. Like many aspects of life in the…
A Chinese food street in which its vendors sell centipedes. scorpions and other fried insects have reopened after closing for 70 days due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Shops at the daily night market in Nanning, the capital of Jiangsu province, offer numerous classic Chinese snacks and dishes, such as grilled octopus, spicy crayfish, steamed dumplings…
Dictator Swagger:On This Day May 5, 2020 – Pyongyang, DPR Korea: The Russian Federation awarded North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un a medal commemorating the 75th anniversary of Russia’s Victory Day, May 9, 1945, and the end of WWII in Europe. Accepting the medal on behalf of Chairman Kim was North Korean Foreign Minister…
Dictator Swagger:On This Day April 30, 1945 – Berlin, Germany: Nazi Fuhrer Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin Führerbunker with a gunshot to the head. He is joined in a suicide pact by wife of one day, Eva Braun, who simultaneously takes cyanide, which had been tested earlier on Hitler’s dog Blondi. Adolf Hitler…
Three men are facing the prospect of 15 years in jail after allegedly buying sex dolls depicting children. The men were arrested over two days in Grafton, NSW, and Turramurra in Sydney after Australian Border Force allegedly intercepted sex dolls being imported into the country in March and April. A 62-year-old was arrested in the…
Dictator Swagger:On This Day April 26, 1965 – Port Royal, Virginia: Citizen of the Union, acclaimed actor and Confederate advocate John Wilkes Booth is shot dead by Union officers 12 days after assassinating U.S. president Abraham Lincoln. Booth had fatally wounded Lincoln at a theatre performance at the Ford Theatre. In the commotion that followed,…