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Easily Confused (38) Petro Poroshenko

Posted on 2014-06-08 by Andreas Moser

Petro Poroshenko, President of Ukraine: Valentin Zukovsky, character in the James Bond films Goldeneye and The World is not enough:

Posted in Politics, Russia, Ukraine | Tagged James Bond | Leave a comment

Easily Confused (37) Aleppo

Posted on 2014-06-04 by Andreas Moser

Old Aleppo: New Aleppo:

Posted in Syria | Tagged Aleppo, refugees | Leave a comment

Easily Confused (36) Brazil

Posted on 2014-06-04 by Andreas Moser

What the world is enraged about: football stadiums not being completed on time What the world doesn’t care about: poverty, corruption, violence

Posted in Brazil, Sports | Tagged football, World Cup 2014 | 4 Comments

Easily Confused (35) Perished Cities

Posted on 2014-04-30 by Andreas Moser

Old cities, whose ruins we visit, wondering how erstwhile grand and important cities could cease to exist: Aleppo, Syria: (Diesen Vergleich gibt es auch auf Deutsch.)

Posted in History, Italy, Military, Photography, Politics, Sicily, Syria | Tagged Tindari | 2 Comments

Easily confused (34) Holocaust denial

Posted on 2014-04-26 by Andreas Moser

There are people who deny that the Holocaust really happened, and then there is someone who claims that Germany denies the historical facts of the Holocaust. This is rather illogical because – for example – the Holocaust denier depicted above, … Continue reading →

Posted in Germany, History, Holocaust, Italy, Politics | Tagged Berlusconi | 4 Comments

Easily Confused (33) Erasmus students

Posted on 2014-04-16 by Andreas Moser

Young Europeans wasting their lives in 1914: Young Europeans wasting their lives in 1944: Young Europeans wasting their lives in 2014: As much as I question what Erasmus students do during their time abroad, in light of the above comparison even I have … Continue reading →

Posted in Europe, History, Life, World War I, World War II | Tagged Erasmus | 15 Comments

Easily Confused (32) Manuel Valls

Posted on 2014-04-09 by Andreas Moser

Whenever I see Manuel Valls, the new French Prime Minister, I am reminded of Jamie McDonald (actor Paul Higgins), the “crossest man in Scotland” from the film In the Loop: