Bastille Day Celebrations?

[mc kenna]

I want to express my greetings and salutations to all French citizens in this very important day in their history

 

[camberiu]

Question:

Are these militaristic/fascist looking parades common in the rest of Western Europe or is it specifically a French thing? I could be wrong, but I don;t recall the British, the Dutch or the post-Nazi Germans putting tanks on the streets during national holidays. Is this right?

 

[French jurist]

Since the 3rd Republic, the 14th of July parade is militaristic.
Followed a defeat against the Prussians actually.

But the one that sacralized it as a militaristic parade was the 1919 one.

Look at the Foreign Legion with beards & axes (symbolic memory of the time they would cut down trees to let the cavalry cross).
https://www.youtube....h?v=o-Q3zGUtx9k

 

[camberiu]

Since the 3rd Republic, the 14th of July parade is militaristic.
Followed a defeat against the Prussians actually.

Sure, but does anyone else in Western Europe have anything similar (parading tanks and guns on the street), or is it a French thing?

 

[French jurist]

Sure, but does anyone else in Western Europe have anything similar (parading tanks and guns on the street), or is it a French thing?

No idea. Likely not in Germany for historical reasons. Do you include UK in Western Europe?

 

[camberiu]

No idea. Likely not in Germany for historical reasons. Do you include UK in Western Europe?

Yes, I do. And I don;t recall them putting tanks on the streets and fighter on the skies during national days. Do they do that?

 

[thorsten]

For Germany: No and I don't think we'll see that in the foreseeable future

 

[camberiu]

For Germany: No and I don't think we'll see that in the foreseeable future

Lucky you. We have those in Brazil during our Independence Day celebrations and I find it very embarrassing. I usually associate such parades with countries like North Korea, China, the USSR and Iraq under Saddam Hussein. I suspect that besides France, no modern/developed democracy has such type of event.

 

[sleslie23]

Not quite the same thing, but the US has fleet week:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_Week

 

[Napoleon]

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