Romanian Electrician Stakes Claim for State Position

The title may not seem like much of a story but there is an interesting twist to this little piece of Romanian news.

Cornel Cernoschi, a Romanian electrician who found himself out of work decided to take a history course to prove his intelligence. After studying long and hard our Romanian electrician stumbled across some interesting ancestry about his family.

Cornel searched long and hard to find that he is related to a fifteenth century ruler of the Romanian province of Moldavia, this ancestors name, believe it or not, is Stephan the Great.

Since finding this information out our Romanian electrician has decided to stake a claim with the government to lands stolen from his ancestors many years ago. Cornel has even gone as far as taking the government to court demanding that he gets titles, land, a house, recognition as the heir to the region and other privileges that anyone of this position would have.

Cornel even stood in court and announced "I want to be granted a high state position to represent Moldova, as well as some kind of symbol of my status and worth - a manor house should do."

The court case is still ongoing and it will be interesting to see if our Romanian electrician ends up with what he feels he is entitled to...I feel it may be time to start researching my family ancestry!

Adolf Hitler Dolls For Sale

Adolf Hitler dolls could be hitting the shelves of toy stores near you!

Yes it's true, a Ukranian toy manufacturer is to start manufacturing dolls of the Second World War German dictator. The Hitler doll in question will be sixteen inches in height (thats a little over 35 centimetres) and will come with two clothing styles

• Early Adolf clad in Jodhpurs and a brown shirt


• Wartime Adolf clad in black trousers, a double breasted grey tunic and the coveted Iron cross

To take things a little further the Adolf Hitler doll will also come with Hitlers favourite companian, his alsation Blondi.

It will be interesting to see how well these dolls sell in the Ukraine and if they manage to become a childs commodity elsewhere!

The decision to make these Hitler dolls by a Ukranian toy company is quite unique as any positive depictions of the Nazi regime and images associated to the regime are illegal in this former Soviet country.

The company behind the Hitler doll are looking to have the dolls on the shelves of Kiev by the summer and to expand thereafter.

They dont make them like they used to

You may be wondering what this post will be about, well this is about the older generation of today and how they just don't make them like they used to. The older generations of today seem to be overlooked and left to get on with their twilight years but what many people seem to forget is what the older generation endured for the lives we live today.

Whether the older generation is from America, the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia or Algeria for that matter there is something about the older generation that I think makes them super humans compared to the youth of today.

Okay I am rambling and you are wondering where I am going with this post. Well the truth is the grandparents and great grandparents of today lived through wars like no other, and many acts of bravery that have never been replicated were done by the many grey haired old people we see every day.

Take the first world war...how many of you could honestly say you would sit in a wet trench with barrage after barrage of artillery rounds being catapulted towards your trench hour after hour before someone blows a whistle and tells you to climb over the top and start walking...yes walking...towards the enemy who are less than a hundred metres away and are firing at you with machine guns and rifles.

Then we come to the second world war...fought in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa....these men from all walks of life and many different cultures were put to arms and marched across countries to face the enemy on battlefields of all varieties seeing the type of battles that have never been replicated. These men put their life on the line for the good of their countries and did so without complaint.

Now you see that our older generation deserve respect yet people seem to forget about how brave these people are, just because they are old now doesn't mean that they do not have some amazing stories to tell about what they endured in their youth.

A changing life

Over the last thirty years the lives of everyone in the western world, lead by the US and the UK, has changed dramatically to the point that surveys are showing many people are not as happy as they once were....but why I ask?

Back in the 1970's people were alot happier than they are now yet did not have the luxuries we have today, we didn't have the appliances we enjoy or the money we make. There are many reasons why this is but the main reason for this is due to the governments, media and businesses of this world.

Back in the old days people lived in an environment that was more relaxed and less money orinetated than today. Today see's us running around in the rat race at such a fast pace because of the pressure put on us by the jobs we do, this means we do not have time to enjoy our lives to the full and when we do find time to spend enjoying ourselves we encounter another problem.

The other problem is the fact that we are conditioned from a young age by advertising, today it is shocking to see the amount of adverts that are put in the middle of football matches and eve childrens educational programs. These adverts push adults and children alike to buy "the next best thing" or "the tastiest burger the world has seen".

This leads me nicely on to the next part of todays problems, this problem is the fact that today sees us using credit more than ever before to buy all these wonderful products that we desperately need...although our parents and grandparents survived more than well enough without them. It seems that financial institues are more than willing to lend money more than ever before meaning we suffer the stress of having to pay back all the money we borrowed for luxury items that we really didn't need.

Back in the old days we were allowed to enjoy our lives without the pressure endured in todays societies and if the governments of today in the western world do not act then we could see a huge meltdown in todays society as people find it harder and harder to cope.

The Divine Queen Elizabeth II

Many people across the world know Queen Elizabeth the Second of the United Kingdom, after all she is the most famous monarch in the world today but there is more to Queen Elizabeth II than many people realise.

Queen Elizabeth was born in 1926 making her royal highness eighty one years old.


Prior to becoming the Queen the then Princess Elizabeth served in the military from 1945 while the war was still going as a Second Subaltern within the Women's Auxillary Territorial Service as none other than a military truck driver.

In 1947 Princess Elizabeth married Prince Phillip of Greece and Denmark (Now known as the Duke of Edinburgh). By the following year Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip had their first child Prince Charles and went on to have three more children Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward.

In February 1952 Princess Elizabeth took over the reign of the throne from her father who had passed away. This reign meant that upon becoming Queen Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth became the Queen Regnant of the following countries

United Kingdom
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Jamaica
Barbados
Bahamas
Grenada
Papau New Guinea
Soloman Islands
Tuvalu
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Antigua and Barbuda
Belize
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Falkland Islands
Fiji
Mauritius
Guyana
Gambia
Malta
Malawi
Kenya
Uganda
Trinidad and Tobago
Tanganyika
Sierra Leone
Nigeria
Ghana
Ceylon (Now Sri Lanka)
South Africa

Although in the present day the Queen now only reigns over 16 of these countries. The Queens family have reigned the longest over the United Kingdom where they have reigned for over a thousand years.

On top of being the Queen, Queen Elizabeth also holds the title of Supreme Governor of the Church of England, Head of the Commonwealth, Duke of Normandy, Lord of Mann and Paramount Chief of Fiji.

Given the Queens length of reign, 55 years, and the huge amount of titles bestowed on her it is amazing to see how gracefully she has carried out her duties to her people under the scrutiny of the media. To me the Queen is a person who has truly inspired many and carried out her position with dignity.

I do believe in the Royal family while many do not, what are your thoughts?

The Secret Asian Holocaust

In 1943 the Japanese forces wished to build a railway joining the existing railway lines in Thailand to those in Burma, to do this meant a whole railway network being built from Bangkok in Thailand to Rangoon in Burma.


As you can imagine this project was something huge and needed a lot of man power to create, something the Japanese could not afford as they were too busy using all man power for their war effort. The Japanese decided to use British and Australian prisoners of war and conscripted Asian labourers to create their vision.

British and Australian POW's

We know of the awful living conditions the British and Australian POW’s had to endure through historical documents and films like The Bridge on the River Kwai. These awful conditions involved working long hours moving soil day and night to create embankments and only living off rice, salt and water. During the project of building the railway twelve thousand British and Australian prisoners of war perished due to exhaustion, malnutrition and disease.

What we do not know and has been hidden for decades is the Asian holocaust of the Asian labourers the Japanese used.

Asian Labourers

While POW's were working on certain parts of the railway the Japanese had taken Asian labourers that used to work for the British before they were over run and put them in to working camps to build the railway. These Asian labourers were not just men but also women and children, in a lot of circumstances they were actually whole families working on the railway.

The Asian labourers worked hard in similar conditions to the British and Australian POW's and many perished due to the conditions they had to endure. Children died due to their small frames not being able to cope with the hard work they were forced to carry out, women passed on due to the exhaustion of working many hard hours carrying endless baskets of soil and men fell as they work due to the staggering effort that was put in to the railway.

Overall ninety thousand Asian labourers died during the building of the railway and the embankment and bridges that support it. Today only three of these 90,000 labourers have graves to mark their passing, and these are shown as unknown names. No one knows just where the ninety thousand bodies lay but it is known that mass graves lay not far from the embankments of the railway and that the British and Australian POW's were made to dig these mass graves to bury the Asian labourers.

A lot happened in the 2nd World War and while we know so much about the attrocities caused it is important to investigate and remember parts of history like this so these ninety thousand Asian labourers souls are not forgotten for what they had to endure.