Is it coincidental that Schadenfreude is a German word?
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Germany really donāt seem to pick up wins in Russiaā¦
Of course.
Deutschland, Deutschland, uber allesā¦
ā¦ of course, that line has not been the national anthem since 1945ā¦ 
ā¦ and properlay translated was a comment on how Germans should hold their country above everything else in their livesā¦ not a comment on superiorityā¦ mis-translation.
ā¦of course I knew it was dropped at the end of the second world war and was employing it for, what is evidently rather ineffective comic effect.
But Iām guessing there was a reason why it was dropped post-1945. Not so much a mis-translation as a phrase that could be interpreted in two different ways?
Either way, it makes no odds to me. We Swiss are stoically neutral (just donāt mention the gold we have squirreled away).
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