Stalin was a good non-degenerate guy, read this interesting quote from the book "My Uncle, Joseph Stalin"
“The French Revolution collapsed because of the degeneration of the morals of its leaders, who surrounded themselves with loose women from the Palais Royal, that ignoble cesspool which drowned the Revolution! I am determined to bear down with a white-hot iron to burn in the bud the loosening of morals. Everyone thinks that I am pursuing the faulty because I want another Thermidor here. That’s a stupid slander! It’s the others who would have brought on a Thermidor if they had been allowed to stay in power without being subjected to the effective control of the Party.” Thermidor 9, 1794, was the date of Robespierre’s overthrow. Thermidor was the month July-August in the republican calendar.
He paused for a moment, and then resumed. “Zinoviev and Kamenev will be rooted out soon. Do you know, Budu, when Zinoviev was president of the municipal government of Leningrad, he introduced the most abject practices there! He surrounded himself with loose women, some of whom were spies. His intimate friend, Slivkin, whom he made a diplomatic courier, smuggled in silk stockings, perfumes, and drugs from abroad. When I found that out, in 1924, I knew that some time or other I would have to cauterize that wound with a white-hot iron! As for Kamenev, I’ve never known a man as cynical as he, as ready to make jokes in the worst of taste about things which are most sacred to us revolutionaries. He became enamored of an Englishwoman who came here purporting to be a journalist and a sculptor and introduced her to Comrade Lenin. He brought her here, to the Crimea, among our comrades, and amused himself by writing love sonnets on Bank of England notes intended to be sent to Great Britain to help striking workers.
>purges rival for being degenerates
>employs Beria
>degenerate
i swear only complete virgins ever use this term
>this just in: ex-priest doesn't like excesses
>more news at 11
To what extent was he involved in the war?
>>3336725
He authorized the Pacific War and was involved in major military decisions. However he was not in total control of his government and likely could not have overruled the military if he tried.
For example, the 2nd SJW was started by the Kwantung Army command and presented to Tokyo as a fait accompli from which they could not step back.
If we let the kings of Axis powers like Italy keep their thrones, removing Hirohito would have been a bit difficult to justify.
>>3336750
fuckin sjws raping Nanking
So who were they really? Just how a group so influential in bringing down an entire age just suddenly disappears from history?
>>3336611
There is substantial evidence they were from the Aegean basin and among them were Italic mercenaries, the Sicels, who at the time inhabited both Calabria and Sicily, as proved by the material record: Italian weapons appearing in the Levant (Amurru) and Cyprus along with imported and locally made South Italian pottery from Calabria, Sicily and Apulia, Amurru and Cyprus were the places that were raided and taken over by the sea peoples according to the Egyptians, around 1200-11500 bc, in Cyprus, fortified settlements built in strategic positions are built at the same time of the sea peoples' invasions, we see huge amounts of Aegean pottery and minor quantities of Anatolian, South Italian and Sardinian pottery, all that can be dated to that exact period, these settlements were built and abandoned in the course of 50 years, exactly at the time of the sea peoples' invasions, they were multiethnic settlements, and were abandoned suddenly in the first half of the XIIth century bc, exactly when Egyptians defeated the sea peoples coming from the north (Cyprus, Amurru and Crete), we see that they covered trasures that were never uncovered again, pointing out that they never made it back after being swept aside by the Egyptians:
>[Beginning of the victory that his majesty achieved in the land of Libya] -i, Ekwesh, Teresh, Lukka, Sherden, Shekelesh, Northerners coming from all lands.
>... the third season, saying: 'The wretched, fallen chief of Libya, Meryey, son of Ded, has fallen upon the country of Tehenu with his bowmen – Sherden, Shekelesh, Ekwesh, Lukka, Teresh, Taking the best of every warrior and every man of war of his country. He has brought his wife and his children – leaders of the camp, and he has reached the western boundary in the fields of Perire'
These guys: Anatolians and South Italians together with Acheans (Ekwesh) allied with Libyan nomads to plunder Egypt
>golden age
You bunch of tards realize that it barely refers to the apex of a given civilization right? Every civilization had its golden age at some point.
great post
Are you schizophrenic by any chance?
>>3336635
Never been tested, so who knows
How did Eastern Mediterranean powers react to the fall of Carthage?
Though they knew Rome was rising power they were too consumed by immediate internecine struggles to react.
By the time Carthage was finally razed and salted the Romans had already kicked all their asses
>>3336544
>carthage controling all the north african coast and half of spain
They just had a few trading towns
I find it hard to find good sources for information on this war. What can /his/ tell me about:
Platoon/Company/regimental formations?
Equipment?
Uniforms?
I will bump you as I am also interested.
How would Japanese history have been affected if the Tokugawa won the Boshin War?
You can't fight a losing ear.
>>3336464
>>3336472
Pretty much this.
Imperial forces had far to much momentum to really be defeated.
I think the very best outcome for the Tokugawa would have been a conditional surrender that kept the (now powerless) title of Shogun in place.
Regarding Japanese historical what-ifs.
I personally find the outcome of a successful Kenmu Restoration far more interesting.
Surly a centralised Japan would have been quite a regional power in the 1300s?
That's a big what if, honestly. Barring something like outright French military support, I can't see any scenario where the Tokugawa or later the Northern Alliance manage to turn back the tide. The Satcho alliance and their allies had better morale, equipment, training, cooperation and imperial moral support. But if the Shogun somehow managed to stay in power, Japan's history would have been radically different, and Japan certainly wouldn't have reached it's regional power status in such a short time. Modernisation was already happening, and the shogunate's authorities were starting to see it as inevitable (remember that the Imperial Forces were a reactionary force, originally against modernisation and change), but I don't think they could have implemented as well as the imperial government later did. Not centralized enough, not powerful enough, not willing enough. Worst case scenario, they turn into China 2.0. Best case scenario, just kinda left alone, in French, maybe British or possibly Russian sphere of influence.
I still have some sympathy for them and their remnants in the Republic of Ezo, though. Imperial side just turned it's back on everything they fought for the second they won (promising Sonno Joi and then promptly asking for more European advisors, investments, etc) and then backstabbing it's supporters.
What's his name again /his/?
1836: Sam Houston elected as president of Texas
>On this day in 1836, Sam Houston is elected as president of the Republic of Texas, which earned its independence from Mexico in a successful military rebellion. Born in Virginia in 1793, Houston moved with his family to rural Tennessee after his father’s death; as a teenager, he ran away and lived for several years with the Cherokee tribe. Houston served in the War of 1812 and was later appointed by the U.S. government to manage the removal of the Cherokee from Tennessee to a reservation in Arkansas Territory. He practiced law in Nashville and from 1823 to1827 served as a U.S. congressman before being elected governor of Tennessee in 1827.
1774: First session of Continental Congress convenes
1914: Battle of the Marne begins
>>3336294
If you ever stop making these threads, I'm going to kill myself.
iirc today is the day that Fatty Arbuckle had that party where the chick died and people thought it was because he shoved a big spike of ice up her pussy
he was acquitted of charges though
>1895
Bizkaitarra´s journal last issue.
Any good books that focus on the Punic Wars?
could von Falkenhayn have won at Verdun? Or was he doomed to fail from the start?
>>3336262
Falkenhayn actually missed two separate opportunities to take Verdun with minimal casualties. He retroactively explained this by saying that he wasn't actually trying to capture Verdun in the first place, and for some reason, historians have accepted this laughable premise for decades.
>>3336262
The original plan of letting Verdun be a slaughterhouse was a succes
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/22/health/suicide-rates-rise/index.html
historically, suicide statistics have always been heavily skewed towards male population. men just suicided more. but now things are evening out. is this the ultimate signal that we are gearing towards a truly equal society? also, is this a desirable outcome?
£th
>objective morality
LMAO I bet you also think we are all connected to a hivemind back to /x/ faggot
>>3335783
>LMAO I bet you also think we are all connected to a hivemind back to /x/ faggot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBAE-3755NY
there is an objective morality which constantly adds to its manifold until all contradictions are resolved within the whole
>>3335783
Not even trying
Why was he so based?
Is he our guy?
>Deletes his religious views
Now he is. If he wasn't a Pagan Larper and antichristian maybe Hitler would have listened to him during the later years. He was incredibly smart and right on many things! I'm particularly looking at his plan for dealing with the east.
>>3335871
>I'm particularly looking at his plan for dealing with the east.
Elaborate
>>3336078
The whermacht was pushing a propaganda campaign about subhumans and future German annexation to motivate troops.
Rosenberg sent countless memorandums pushing for granting the conquered Slavs autonomy and allowing them to fight against the Russians.
Bu this time Adolf didn't care for him as he had wasted too much of his time w anti Christian LARP>>3336078