Today in Digg, I found an interesting world map based in Roosevelt’s message to the 77th Congress on the state of the Union made on the 31st of march 1942. As you will see this map quarantines Germany, Japan and Italy - known as the countries of the Axis - and we see future enemies - US and URSS - together in this battle. I thought this was an interesting piece to share here with you : a look from the past towards the future.
Here’s an excerpt from the caption of this map:
“Outline of Post-War New World map as the USA, with the cooperation of the Democracies of Latin America, the British Commonwealth of Nations and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, assumes World Leadership for the establishment of a New World Moral Order for permanent Peace, Freedom, Justice, Security and World Reconstruction.”
To see the bigger map, click here.
Dear Paulo and friends,what can I say,if I have to remember that in this ocasion my country was asigned to the Urss,meaning comunism and very hard times.Hope such things never should happen again.
Si les cartes t’interpellent Paulo, voici celle des droits homosexeuels dans le monde, comme tu le verra, le respect de la différence, et le droit à l’indifférence est loin d’être gagné.
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Michel
http://michel.hubert.free.fr/wordpress/index.php/2008/05/01/nouvelle-carte-des-droits-homosexuels-a-travers-le-monde/
World’s map always changes. Depends on the interest.
In the name of peace, strong and powerful countries try to be the leader of the world. And pretend that they are the leader of the world.
I ask myself sometimes, who has to be responsible to any kind of wars post World War II such as Iraqi War or other peace crisis in Middle East???
Wow… what an interesting posting, Paulo…
I was searching for your book in English “Brida” for my wife, Shelina. She is looking forward to this reading. And, all the sudden, I saw this map and had to read more about this on your blog.
Growing-up in Communism was a beautiful experience in my life. As Putin says: “Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.” There is a “vision” from the past that will haunt us all in the future…
Regards,
d.