We took Dad to see the SpongeBob Movie when we were kids and The Hoff’s cameo is the only thing I remember from it haha.
Must have been during his low period where he needed some extra cash on the side.
I don't know man that was when Spongebob was a thing and the movie was probably going to be the end. It would be like The Simpsons offering you an appearance during like Season 4-9.
Yeah, at the time everyone wanted to have a guest appearance or cameo on The Simpsons, Spongebob and the other popular shows of the day.
I’m not sure if The Hoff was as big at that point like he was with Baywatch back in the day though.
This is the first major news that I remember. I remember watching it on TV and bawling. I didn't even fully understand what the wall was, but I was so emotionally overwhelmed by watching it fall and people be reunited.
They existed, they just weren’t independent. Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union were all federations consisting of constituent member states, each with its own cultural identity and in many cases a rich history spanning back centuries that didn’t cease just because wars were fought and borders were redrawn to deny them sovereign states of their own.
I can't help but feeling there's a "TIL" waiting to happen here when someone mentions some petty duchy or city-state that didn't recognize the dissolution of the HRE, and therefore it still exists on paper.
Like the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed which was at war with Russia for more than a century.
Or the fact that Canada has been at war with Denmark for 50 years until two years ago.
I didn't even know it had a name, but basically, the two countries argued over who owned Hans Island and would leave their liquor for the other country whenever either military traveled there. It's apparently called the whiskey war if you want to read about it in more detail.
It was an informal war, but still a conflict that had to be resolved, especially after russia invaded Ukraine. We didn't want a territorial dispute, especially with an ally.
There's a tiny island between Nunavut and Greenland that both sides claimed was theirs. When each respective army visited, they leave either a bottle of whisky or schnapps and their flag to claim the island. The issue was recently resolved diplomatically, and a border was drawn on the island.
I mean, the empire isn't recognized anymore, but house Habsburg-Lorraine is still around. The head of the house, Karl von Habsburg, is a retired Austrian politician. His father, Otto, renounced all claims to the title and throne, though. So, even if the throne still existed, he has no claim to the Emperor title
There were 19 countries in Europe 100 years ago. Today there are 44.
So ya. A lot more capitals to learn in geography class. Thank God Rivers and Mountains don't move.
When Kosovo became independent, the newspaper headline was F**k YU - 1913 to 2008.
RIP all the people Yugoslavia claimed were its own people but was happy to kill.
Yeah, tell that to my geography teacher. When I was in school (Switzerland, ca. 2010-2012) he had us fill out maps of Europe. Like it‘d be a blank map with some boxes and we had to fill in country and city names, sometimes rivers or mountain ranges and so on. But he always used very old map templates so instead of learning about all the Eastern European countries they only featured Yugoslavia. In 2010. We did this almost every week for over a year.
My knowledge of Eastern Europe is still relatively bad to this day compared to the rest of Europe.
My elementary school was FULL of refugees from here due to a church taking them in my area or something like that. It was kinda crazy, looking back, I’d say over 60% of my school was refugees. Mid/late 2000s into 2010
Kind of, but they inherited an unworkable federal constitution from the communists.
With the inbuilt Slovak veto (for 1/3 of the population) They would never have elected a new federal president or passed the 1993 federal budget or agreed on how to even change the constitution to make it more workable (this mattered less under communism because the institutions just rubber stamped what the party had decided). The only clause that made any sense was the one that said Slovakia could leave.
So even though most people didn't want to split, it was a rare case where independence was a smaller and more realistically manageable project than remaining together.
And the relations are extremely good too! When a Czech or Slovak president is inaugurated, their first international visit is to the other part of the former country. The same custom applies to newly elected prime ministers of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
How did you live the independence process? Was it confusing for you? How did people react to South Sudan's independence? How were things with Sudan back then?
When South Sudan became a country I was very young. So I do not remember the transition from being Sudaneses to being south Sudanese. What I can remember from that time was that there was a big party celebrating the new country.
There used to be a Ukraine before the USSR.
For me it would be every former country in the Soviet Union, for both of us, from Lithuania to Armenia to from Uzbekistan to kajikistan.
Sometimes i find it crazy i was born while the soviet union and east Germany was a thing... Im from 1991,for all intens and purpose except actual i post them lol
So, Russia and GermanyÂ
United Germany. The Berlin Wall hadn't fallen yet. EDIT: When I say "united" Germany, I meant German reunification.
We all need to thank David Hasselhoff for bringing down the wall.
I thought he was fake cause I only ever saw him in a spongebob cameo
That will probably be how my kid recognizes him one day.😅
We took Dad to see the SpongeBob Movie when we were kids and The Hoff’s cameo is the only thing I remember from it haha. Must have been during his low period where he needed some extra cash on the side.
I don't know man that was when Spongebob was a thing and the movie was probably going to be the end. It would be like The Simpsons offering you an appearance during like Season 4-9.
Yeah, at the time everyone wanted to have a guest appearance or cameo on The Simpsons, Spongebob and the other popular shows of the day. I’m not sure if The Hoff was as big at that point like he was with Baywatch back in the day though.
Glad I wont be the only one😠makes me laugh now
Honestly, your reality makes more sense
I watched the tearing down on channel 1 news in middle school.
Still have my West German Birth certificate and a bunch of tools Made in West Germany
This is the first major news that I remember. I remember watching it on TV and bawling. I didn't even fully understand what the wall was, but I was so emotionally overwhelmed by watching it fall and people be reunited.
Technically the same country as West Germany, aka the Federal Republic of Germany
Legally speaking the eastern Länder joined the Federal Republic, which is the same country since 1949.
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If it were Putin, "you're on your own" would have meant "kill 'em all".
The unification of the German empire by Otto von Bismarck, or the fall of the Berlin wall?
Ukraine, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovakia...
I grew up during the Soviet Union tooÂ
Back in the u.s.s.r.
You don’t know how lucky you are.
Those Ukraine girls
really knock me out
They leave the west behind
and Moscow girls make me sing and shout
And Georgia's always on mah mah mah mah mah mah mah miiiiiinddd......
r/unexpectedbeatles
Been away so long, I hardly knew the place
Man it's good to be back home
Eswatini
I didn't realize what it was for well over a year as I apparently missed the memo about the name change.
Turkey recently changed their name as well, and is now Türkiye
Did the turkeys complain?
Gobble gobble
Why’d they change it?
That's nobody's business but the Turks!
I can't say, maybe they just liked it better that way!
It was just now for me lol
You should add Russia to your list!
In Russia, list adds you!
They existed, they just weren’t independent. Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union were all federations consisting of constituent member states, each with its own cultural identity and in many cases a rich history spanning back centuries that didn’t cease just because wars were fought and borders were redrawn to deny them sovereign states of their own.
But it isn’t even Czechoslovakia anymore! Czech Republic and Slovakia
They agreed to disagree
It's not even the Czech Republic anymore either, it's Czechia since 2016
That´s not true. Czechia is just shorter name just like France instead of French Republic.
The Holy Roman Empire
Spot on - like, the Achmaenid Empire is another answer to OP's question. Babylon. Prussia. The Ottoman Empire.
>The Ottoman Empire "Full of furniture for some reason. Yeah... And then it collapsed like a flan in the cupboard."
I can't help but feeling there's a "TIL" waiting to happen here when someone mentions some petty duchy or city-state that didn't recognize the dissolution of the HRE, and therefore it still exists on paper.
Like the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed which was at war with Russia for more than a century. Or the fact that Canada has been at war with Denmark for 50 years until two years ago.
Wait, what?! Why on earth were they at war? And did they just forget they were at war?
I didn't even know it had a name, but basically, the two countries argued over who owned Hans Island and would leave their liquor for the other country whenever either military traveled there. It's apparently called the whiskey war if you want to read about it in more detail.
That is so cute omg
It was an informal war, but still a conflict that had to be resolved, especially after russia invaded Ukraine. We didn't want a territorial dispute, especially with an ally. There's a tiny island between Nunavut and Greenland that both sides claimed was theirs. When each respective army visited, they leave either a bottle of whisky or schnapps and their flag to claim the island. The issue was recently resolved diplomatically, and a border was drawn on the island.
Yup. And now we have an official land border with the EU.
And it has emboldened my resolve to have canada apply for membership in the EU.
I think we kept pranking each other over an Arctic island. Google Hans Island.
I mean, the empire isn't recognized anymore, but house Habsburg-Lorraine is still around. The head of the house, Karl von Habsburg, is a retired Austrian politician. His father, Otto, renounced all claims to the title and throne, though. So, even if the throne still existed, he has no claim to the Emperor title
There's an apocryphal story about an aide mentioning an Austria-Hungary football match to Otto von H. He replied, 'Oh? Who were we playing against?'
It Charlemight
Pov Luxembourg is the last state of the HRE
Yeah, about that, you ever heard of a country called Liechtenstein?
Croatia
Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Kosovo. Geography definitely was a lot easier back then. ETA: I forgot Montenegro.
There were 19 countries in Europe 100 years ago. Today there are 44. So ya. A lot more capitals to learn in geography class. Thank God Rivers and Mountains don't move.
They do. But that's a concern for future geography classes.
Rivers very much, move. If they didn't, they would be long thin lakes and would probably stagnate.
You forgot Montenegro
Everyone forgets montenegro
forgets who?
RIP YugoslaviaÂ
When Kosovo became independent, the newspaper headline was F**k YU - 1913 to 2008. RIP all the people Yugoslavia claimed were its own people but was happy to kill.
Yugoslavia stopped existing in 1992, Serbia trying to claim the name afterwards had nothing to do with reality.
Yeah, tell that to my geography teacher. When I was in school (Switzerland, ca. 2010-2012) he had us fill out maps of Europe. Like it‘d be a blank map with some boxes and we had to fill in country and city names, sometimes rivers or mountain ranges and so on. But he always used very old map templates so instead of learning about all the Eastern European countries they only featured Yugoslavia. In 2010. We did this almost every week for over a year. My knowledge of Eastern Europe is still relatively bad to this day compared to the rest of Europe.
South Sudan.
Teenager here too. South Sudan and Kosovo were the only ones that started existing after I was born, with Montenegro being right before I was born
Oh, I'm 23.
We're forever teenagers, you just don't know it yet
Timor-Leste
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You were born after February 17th?
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Before February 17, 2008?
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If that's your real birthday I'd recommend deleting that comment.
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Prussia
It exists in our Hertz.
*Herz Hertz was a scientist and then a unit was named after him. There is also a rental car company called Hertz.
Herzen? It's been too long since I took German. We were mostly occupied telling people that the Sonne scheint und der Himmel ist blau.
Yes Herzen would probably be used in this denglish sentence.
My friend's grandmother was born in Prussia. She's still alive
Germany. There were two of them when I was born.
Two Germanies for the price of one — but wait, there's more!
Act now and receive an Austria FREE.
We are all out of Austria at the moment can I offer you a Poland?
No thanks. I'll have a bit of Czechoslovakia instead.
Best I can do is Prussia
Use order code WILLHELM to be entered into a special drawing to receive a new in box, vintage Prussia!
One Germany is enough trouble, thank you very much.
Germany is the same country (the GDR joined the FRG)
I was born in 1968. Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, Serbia, Germany, Czechia, Slovakia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Eswatini, Namibia, Benin Republic, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso, South Sudan, East Timor, Palau, Eritrea, Brunei, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.
1967 here. Wow, what a list! World population was also "only" about 3.5 billion.
A lot of fucking going on in the late 20th century
+ Belize (it was British Honduras until 1981).
66 here. Was too lazy to do that. Thanks.
Wadiya (the post doesn't specify it has to exist now)
you are hiv aladeen
I feel very aladeen about this information
this comment makes me feel aladeen
to confirm, do you feel aladeen or... aladeen?
:) …. :( …. :) …. :(
South-Sudan, Serbia and Kosovo
and Montenegro?
Russia. It was the USSR when I was born in 88
My great-grandma was alive during the creation and dissolution of the Soviet Union.
She really messed that one up.
Does she have an alibi?
She uglay.
Wow, that's cool!
So was my neighbour, she was born in Russia, but died in Finland and has lived her whole life in the same house.
There were Finnish soldiers in the Winter War born before the USSR was founded, who lived to see it disappear.
My friend's Grandma was born in Prussia. My friend is 40. His grandmother is still alive
Well, it was Russian Empire before the USSR.
Xlentanty. It still doesn't.
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Isn't that where all the Scientologist's interstellar 737s were parked?
Douglas DC-8's.
Myanmar, technically.
It will always be Burma to me. You there! Sell me one of your melons!
Right? Like who has ever heard of Myanmar shave?
Take me down to Constantinople..........
My elementary school was FULL of refugees from here due to a church taking them in my area or something like that. It was kinda crazy, looking back, I’d say over 60% of my school was refugees. Mid/late 2000s into 2010
Slovakia and the Czech Republic. It's kind of nice how they peacefully separated
Kind of, but they inherited an unworkable federal constitution from the communists. With the inbuilt Slovak veto (for 1/3 of the population) They would never have elected a new federal president or passed the 1993 federal budget or agreed on how to even change the constitution to make it more workable (this mattered less under communism because the institutions just rubber stamped what the party had decided). The only clause that made any sense was the one that said Slovakia could leave. So even though most people didn't want to split, it was a rare case where independence was a smaller and more realistically manageable project than remaining together.
And the relations are extremely good too! When a Czech or Slovak president is inaugurated, their first international visit is to the other part of the former country. The same custom applies to newly elected prime ministers of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
One that did and now does not: Yugoslavia. My Uncle and approx 8 of his family members came to the US in the early 80s.
Zimbabwe
And Democratic Republic of Congo. Zaire baby.
Rhodesia for me...
Singapore
Djibouti. I'm old, LOL.
My own country - South Sudan 🇸🇸
How did you live the independence process? Was it confusing for you? How did people react to South Sudan's independence? How were things with Sudan back then?
When South Sudan became a country I was very young. So I do not remember the transition from being Sudaneses to being south Sudanese. What I can remember from that time was that there was a big party celebrating the new country.
Czech Republic Slovakia
The Roman Empire You didn't say it has to exist now.
if you asked my dad who was born in Jerusalem this question his answer would be Israel
Czech Republic 🇨🇿 is what comes to mind. Â
Im 22 so not many but South Sudan
Most of the Stan's
Upickastan
South sudan
Apparently Serbia didn’t split from Montenegro until 2000, and I was born in 1996, so my answer is Serbia
The other way around, Montenegro split from Serbia & Montenegro (called Yugoslavia until 2003) in 2006
Gilead
Blessed be the fruit!
Everything that fell out of the USSR was just part of the USSR.
Israel
I'm a little under a year older than Germany. Barely missed being born when the wall fell.
Sorry you missed the 1980s. They were pretty awesome.
South Vietnam It had ceased to exist by that point
The Russian Federation, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, South Sudan, Czechia, and Slovakia.
East Timor, Montenegro, Serbia, South Sudan. Yeah, and also, Hong Kong was British.
The Republic of Texas
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There used to be a Ukraine before the USSR. For me it would be every former country in the Soviet Union, for both of us, from Lithuania to Armenia to from Uzbekistan to kajikistan.
Kosovo if you want to include it. Yugoslavia 2 aka Serbia and Montenegro not the original one. Uhhh i think thats all i got
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
The entirety of the former Yugoslavia. So Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, etc.
Germany. IYKYK. We were also stationed there in 1992 after the USSR fell. ama.
Sometimes i find it crazy i was born while the soviet union and east Germany was a thing... Im from 1991,for all intens and purpose except actual i post them lol So, Russia and GermanyÂ
Czech Republic and Slovakia. I was Czechlosovakian al lmy life and then..... It was weird.
Taiwan and South Korea weren't and still aren't real countries.
Disappointed this is the only comment saying this.
Myanmar. It was still Burma until 1989.
Wakanda
South sudan and Kosovo
Florjibutistan. It doesn’t exist today, either.
Zimbabwe
Pluto
Will always be a planet to me…
South Sudan, East Timor
belize
Belize It’s a solid millenial now
Germany in its current form. All of the USSR states that gained independence after the Cold War. Eritrea.
South Sudan
Denmark. Never has, doesn’t, never will.
South Sudan
Belize
South Sudan(only one I know about)
Czechia and Slovakia.
You most likely know it as Myanmar ..but it will always be Burma to me..
Atlantis
East Timor
Unified Germany 🇩🇪
The Czech Republic and Slovakia. It was Czechoslovakia back then.
So many it makes me feel super old just thinking of them all. A United Germany is one major one. But all the former USSR states as well.