>black African man
>was a great Russian nobleman, engineer, and warrior
>impregnated a supple white Russian girl with his BBC
>created Pushkin, founder of Russian poetry and literature
>>2539404
literally who
Pushkin's dad I guess.
Pushkin is like the Russian Shakespeare
>Black African Man
>Russian
What? Being a Russian citizen doesn't make you Russian. That only works with the United States because "American" isn't an ethnic group.
If Hitler did not persecute, and dehumanize the Jewish people in Germany before the beginning of World War 2, and actually managed to make them support the Nazi Party enough to even join the army. Could he theoretically have won the war with? I did the math and it would give him roughly 125,000 more troops, putting the total number of Nazi soldiers above, 15,000,000. It's a small edition, but it could've made the difference in say the North Africa, which would've led to Italy not falling to the allies?
>pic unrelated
>>2539389
>If Hitler did not persecute, and dehumanize the Jewish people in Germany before the beginning of World War 2, and actually managed to make them support the Nazi Party enough to even join the army.
That would literally destroy the whole purpose of his movement.
>>2539389
No because they still could not into logistics.
>>2539389
If he was pro-Jew World War II would never have happened.
What's the origin and symbolic meaning of the Black Madonna?
hol up
>>2539379
As above; So below.
>>2539379
After end of iconoclastic heresy at Council of Nicea II church decided that saints on Icons should have brownish skin color. I dunno why, probably reference to angels in bible that were siad to be like polished bronze. So you have brown icons. But if you have a shitttone of candels and incense near it it would turn black over time. And now anyone think it was always black.
Was it all in vain?
>>2539361
No way to know for sure...but it's looking that way.
>>2539361
If the Western allies didn't gain a foothold in Europe the Russians would've stormed all the way to Paris just like in 1814.
>>2539393
true
The prebaltic states have no historical basis and should not exist. Furthermore, languages such as Estonian and Latvian are useless because no great literature or scientific papers exist in these languages and less than a half million total people even speak these languages in the world. The only way the prebaltics can force people to speak their bastardized finnic tongue is by making it illegal to speak Russian.
smells like one of those /int/ threads that you people keep shitting out
>>2539329
>I said "historical", that means I can post my hyperautistic sperging here instead of /int/!
doesnt having a unique ethnicity, language & culture give them the right to self determination?
What would you guys recommend me doing to get information on deceased vets and how should I research them? in a way that wont cost money from a stupid internet site.
>>2539271
Is it family? Your family might have some records - discharge papers usually had a decent amount of info.
Your best bet is probably filing a request with the government, although it might cost a couple bucks, it would be official info.
>>2539338
I wanna do some for my family and a friend's family.
>>2539271
https://www.archives.gov/st-louis/military-personnel
ITT: "villains" that did nothing wrong
Carlos Castaño, leader of Colombian far right paramilitary. Fought to defend innocent farmers/villagers from Marxist murderers and kidnappers. Was opposed to funding the paramilitary through drug trade, unlike his brothers. Was eventually killed at the behest of his brother.
F
>>2539218
he was an oligarchical psychopath who used fear to get his way, no better then farc. Non of columbian death squads where good in a anyway. Go suck a dick faggot
>>2539480
>columbian
And he only killed marxists/marxist sympathizers, which is a credit to the world
>>2539497
in the end they were the same. Take it from a Colombian, pal, there were no marxists after the Bogotazo, only thieves, drug dealers, and murderers.
Shouldn't Christians thank the Jews for killing Jesus?
https://youtu.be/CXE33YHDzpg
Yes. The problem is the Jews didn't convert en masse afterwards.
Christians have, historically, loved Jews who convert. The accusation of being a "Judaizer" was one that came from populism and nativism, not any actual theological issue.
>>2539203
They killed Jesus not to fulfill the prophecy about him, but because he threatened the power of the Pharisees
>>2539318
You mean Sadducees. You know, the guys with the Priests and the ultra-rigid approach to the Law.
How exactly did the Maori kill every single moa in New Zealand in 50 years.
From what I understand a couple thousand Maoris with sticks managed to hunt down every single bird on two large islands in the span of 50 years. New Zealand's total area is 264,537 square kilometers.
>>2539171
Gold Rush mentality.
Get richer with feathers and all sorts of obscene crap you can make with an endless supply of giant bird faggots.
Big targets.
>>2539171
I'm not sure, but I bet the Aussies wish they had 3-4 thousand Maoris Early 20th century
Why didn't his famous charm work on Stalin?
>>2539129
Stalin's own charm countered it like a Dragon Ball Z battle.
>>2539129
FDR was a calculating man but Stalin was in a whole different league.
Stalin had a fantastic capability to distract the people under him so much that they would end up fighting each other.
Plus other cultures see smiling faces as some oafish gesture. A face is supposed to be impressive onto the point of intimidating.
Stalin was only ever impressed by Hitler, who was a psychopath just like him.
How exactly do linguists determine if languages are related or if they simply borrowed words from each other?
>>2539124
Looking at how similar the most commonly used words are. Things like pronouns, articles and numbers generally won't get borrowed from other languages.
>>2539124
Linguistics is much more than just vocabulary, there's grammar and phonetics and such that is all analyzed.
If you want to get into it yourself, check out Grimm's Law and feel cool anytime you say simple words.
Linguistics is fun autism.
There's been some very questionable "discoveries" in the field of linguistics that are motivated more by politics than actual evidence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=003iC7VZmYc
It's the highest point *in* history.
>>2539042
In modern history, definitely.
GOAT Hitler Documentary btw:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCClBdXJ5cg&t=789s
No, the highest point was when he pooped himself in July of 1941. Oh, wait a minute, would that be the lowest?
I've seen Roman empire been discussed a lot on /his/. But what is so fascinating about this empire, compare to other empires in history?
I guess part of the appeal is the sheer longevity of it. The Roman state lasted from the 8th century BC until the 15th century AD, that's over 2000 years, which is pretty much unparalleled.
>>2538917
Because of its influence on European history, duh
Romans are to Europe what Adam is to Christfags.
Was ancient warfare more gruesome?
Any accounts of PTSD in ancient times as well?
probably
since ancient everything was more gruesome
who knows, probably half the populace had experienced trauma that would cause ptsd in modern humans
Are you the same guy who makes these PTSD threads every day? Fuck off already.
Nah, modern artillery and shit turns people inside out. Ancient soldiers probably didnt have to deal with picking up their comrade's giblets spread over a square mile.
As far as barbarism that happens in war like cutting cocks off corpses and stuffing it in their mouths, that still happens today.
The world wars were probably more gruesome than all ancient conflicts combined.
KHOMEIN?
>Can't beat fucking post-revolutionary chaos Iran despite support from the entire world and massive firepower advantage
Why are Arabs such shitty fighters?
>>2538879
Iran was 4 times the size of Iraq, received weapons from US and Israel, and Iraq did beat them off in the end. It's kinda hard to win an attrition war against a much larger enemy
>>2538899
Iran was under an arms embargo by the west and the Soviets (starting from 1985), and Iraq received tens of billions of dollars in loans from Gulf countries, as well as high tech military gear from Europe, as well as chemical weapons, as well as having free access to satellite data from U.S.
Iran had barely any method to resupply their army, which is why they lost the war of attrition.
> received weapons from US and Israel
Iran-Contra was a one-time thing, and became a scandal for a reason.