Текст на „MLF Lullaby“

• 1. Less than 20 years had passed since the end of WWII, so there was obvious distrust of letting Germany handle weapons of mass destruction.
• 2. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisangani
• 3. Stanleyville (now Kisangani) is a major city in the African state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The DRC gained independence from Belgium in 1961, and was plagued by civil wars during the period of the Congo Crisis (1960-1965), when it was the stage of an indirect conflict between the US and the USSR, as part of the Cold War.
  Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) is the largest city of Vietnam, which was the victim of another proxy war between the US and the USSR, in 1955-1975.
• 4. Germany was defeated in WWI by the Allies (France, Britain, Russia, US, Italy, and others). It was subject to very harsh sanctions and prohitions to prevent it from starting another war. However, that was part of the success of the rising nationalism that would soon bring Hitler to power, resulting in WWII.
• 5. The Sandman is a mythical character in European folklore who puts people to sleep by sprinkling sand on their eyes.
• 6. Heil is a salute which is the German equivalent of the English hail. It was extensively used by Nazis, so it’s now associated to them.
  The Wehrmacht were the Nazi Germany armed forces.
  The Bundeswehr are the armed forces of the present Federal Republic of Germany.
• 7. Leonid Brezhnev was the General Secretary of the USSR Communist Party in 1964-1982.