Swedish Teddy Bear paratroops invade Belarus
Airborne, All the WAY!!
I saw this piece in the news about some Swedes dropping Teddy Bears by parachute into Belarus. It apparently got the government of the former Soviet republic in a major snit. They seem to want the perpetrators delivered to them and have been kicking out Swedish diplomats because the Swedes didn’t just deliver them up.
Another tempest in a teapot, but I couldn’t help thinking of a movie version. I know I am seriously dating myself, but in the early 1960s (1962, to be exact) the movie “The Longest Day” came out about the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.
In a bit of real history in the movie, it featured a character named “Rupert.” Rupert was a small dummy (the American one appears to have been far more elaborate than the British version, but that is the American way – Gold-plated all the way) that was dropped from aircraft over parts of France to simulate an invasion of paratroopers. The object, of course, was to confuse the Germans as to where the real drops were being made. It worked, sort of.
Anyway, I saw the Swedish Teddy Bear Paratroopers and immediately thought of Rupert.
Go, Rupert! Do your thing for God, King and your Country.
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