Obama stopped off in Dresden to meet briefly with an increasingly challenging Chancellor Angela Merkel, keeping the discussions about Iran, Israel, Opel, and the environment.

Thankfully contrary to your Volgi’s worst fears, Obama did not apologize for the Allied bombing of Dresden, sympathize with the plight of the Nazis, or equate Allied acts with nazi atrocities.

However, the Press more than made up for this lack of apology by doing it themselves.

Time magazine wondered why he would simply stop over “in Dresden, the German city known primarily as the site of a horrific bombing campaign by U.S. and British forces just months before the end of World War II. The bombing, which lasted 63 minutes, started fires that ultimately claimed the lives of between 18,000 and 25,000 Germans, according to a recent report by historians commissioned by the city.” Dresden was not any more horrific than any other civilian center bombing, by any party.

Provinding more detail, the Christian Science Monitor adds “the [Frauenkirche] church was destroyed in what is often referred to as one of the greatest tragedies of the war. On Feb. 13 and 14, 1945, 800 British and American aircraft flattened the city with an incendiary bombing campaign so intense that the city burned for a week and some 25,000 people died.” Among the Czar’s list of the greatest tragedies of the War, Dresden would not be in the top 25. Actually, not a single Allied act would be in the top 25.

Reuters found the Obama visit so uninteresting that they simply decided to devote an entire article to how horrific the bombing of Dresden was. History is better than news, it seems.

Associated Press, whom the Czar can always count on to let him down, decided to discuss the Allied bombing as an unprovoked crime against humanity: “Dresden is a city with its own bitter wartime memories. Starting on the night of Feb. 13, 1945, first British, then American bombers pounded the defenseless and largely non-strategic architectural gem, igniting a firestorm in which 25,000 people died—and in so doing, creating an enduring controversy.” Defenseless? Non-strategic? The author, Mark Smith, evidently belongs the increasing view that fact-checking is less important than scoring a self-righteous point.

He is not along in failing to do basic research. Smith, above, fails to understand history; others fail to understand Today. Some Dresdeners hoped Obama would use his Dresden visit to denounce the rise of Neo-Nazis in Germany. “The Right-wing violence troubles Dresden,” writes Isabelle de Pommereau in the Christian Science Monitor. Neo-Nazis are right-wingers? A lower middle class group who subsists largely of government welfare, demanding a stronger, interventionist national government with socialist programs? Mme de Pommereau, Nazis are left-wing liberals.

The Czar is pleased POTUS Obama made no apology for Dresden; however, the number of reporters who did it for him reveal how little critical history is remembered by those who now record it.

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.