>materialism is bad
>*fights bourguise just for money and destroys any non-materialist values like religion*
>imperialism is bad
>*invades finland, baltic states, afghanistan and annexes tuva just for land*
>we shall fight the 1%!!!!
>*kills 50% of people, mostly from the working classes*
Was Soviet Union the most hypocritical state that had ever existed?
>>3023578
>*kills 50% of people, mostly from the working classes*
no need to meme anon.
but yes, the soviet union quickly degenerated into a bourgeois state.
>all men are created equal
as much as 25% of the population are chattel slaves and then treated second class citizens until the 1960s and face de facto racism even today
>government of the people, by the people, for the people
president is elected by the electoral college not the people, gerrymander districts at every opportunity to make voting in many cases little more than a meaningless ritual, pass laws that restrict the ability of third parties to participate in the political process, used drug laws to jail political dissidents
>land of the free
highest prison population in the world
>making the world safe for democracy
responsible for propping up dictators against popular movements in numerous instances, even overthrowing or assassinating rightfully elected leaders
I mean...need I go on?
>kills 50% of people
Real number is 250%. They were so evil, they would clone people just to kill them over and over again. The reason the population wasn't 50% lower than before the revolution was they would force women to have 5-10 children, killing most of them including the women, but ensuring there would still be people left to kill in the future
It seems weird how Russia only abandoned the concept in 1861. What convinced the Tzars that it was a good idea? Did they see no point in changing it, even though industrialization was growing rampant? Did they not see the potential in how it could affect their economy?
Why did the Russian westernizer Peter The Great not assess the situation? He wanted Russia to be more western, but somehow overlooked the serfdom problem in Russia, why's that?
>>3023489
It should've never been abolished, everything went to shit since.
>>3023489
The Tsars knew from 18th century that serfdom is shit. Even the hyper-conservative Nicholas I was conscious that serfdom is bad on all levels.
The problem was that the stability of Russian empire was dependent on the support of nobility and the church. Autocracy in Russia was built with the tacit agreement that the Tsars will leave the nobles and clerics alone in doing whatever the fuck they want.
>>3023510
>The problem was that the stability of Russian empire was dependent on the support of nobility and the church.
Ah, that is interesting, so in a sense it was sort of like the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth, where the nation heavily relied on giving Noblemen priviliges to not go apeshit (Much like the Targowica confederation)? When was this idea of noblemen implemented? Right after Ivan IV came as the ruler of all Russians? Or did it even precede the very state of Russia?
Stop eating food.
Start being in a Russian war cemetary.
>Believing in the Gulahoax
Fucking normies
Stop being notCatholic.
Lets have a documentary thread
I'll start with a great documentary about Frederick the Great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLRLSJDUoDE
All BBC History Docs by booking white men are solid, seen that one a few times OP.
This series is very good.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdEBPyoq11-7H07u7iwGM_3l-_QfxFj9B
Does anybody have anything good on the Holy Roman Empire?
Soviet Storm is a pretty good documentary about the eastern front, there is some bias once in a while though
https://youtu.be/JhXKlYnSWjA
The World at War is really good as well
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x13pwg5_the-world-at-war-ep-1-a-new-germany-1933-1939_shortfilms
Does /his/ recommend some books on pic related, and his empire in general?
I mean, there are fuckloads, but I'm not really /his/torian enough to remove the fanfictions and the unreadable laundry lists.
Also general mongolian empire thread, I guess.
genghis khan more like gangrape khan
>>3023260
If somebody on /tg/ asks about DnD rulebooks, does he get redirected to /lit/ as well?
Did American revolution had organized violence like reign of terror in France or Red terror in Russia?
Not on that level. Mostly there was organized protest though, for example during the buildup to the war whenever Britain would send new tax collectors the men of the town would assemble and systematically dismantle the building that the tax office was housed in down to the last brick.
A few times the tarring and feathering got a bit out of hand with drunken mobs and a couple guys got hurt but the only people really "terrorized" were the British officials.
>>3023226
No because it wasn't really a revolution, just a war of secession. George Washington didn't aim to overthrow and kill the king in London,
>>3023226
Not really. It was an upperclass revolution. No reason to go chopping anyone's heads off.
Reminder:
IGNORE obvious shitposting threads
IF the thread has "nothing wrong", "why is x this way", "who was in the wrong here" or any other blatanlty obvious thread it needs to be reported. Do not post in it.
We can beat /pol/fags and /leftypol/fags together.
>>3023144
I'd add to this that when one of them tries to derail a thread, polititely correct them and then everyone else ignore them.
And remember to always remind people we're here for history and facts. It is fun to tease each other over our different views but at the end of the day we should respect anyone who isn't German.
Too good to not spread.
>>3023144
>IGNORE obvious shitposting threads
>implying this is a solution
Shitposters don't go away just because YOU ignore them
The shitpost threads just become 100% shit because you don't even have non-shitposters entering it to argue, only shitposters shitposting with impunity
some of the most well-articulated arguments I've ever seen on this board happened in "shitposting threads"
How did the americans even succeed with the d-day invasion? I imagine assaulting beaches infested with bunkers and mg's is probably the worst way of invading france?
There was a relatively small amount of Germans defending the beaches at the time of the invasion. If it had been the full force we'd have gotten our bums kicked in.
>>3023150
But even if the germans were outnumbered wouldnt their defences just grind up the attackers??
>>3023161
They kinda did. It wasn't exactly a walk in the park.
Based on the historical analogs in Europe, East Asia, and the Near and Middle East, would a centrally administered and appointed bureaucracy along the lines of great empires like the Romans and the Chinese have been more suited to a stable and united Westeros continent than the hereditary feudal system with powerful ex-monarchy lords that the Targaryens opted for?
I want books that will give me some level of insight into the medieval mind. These can be books read by, written by, or about medieval people.
I've recently read Augustine's Confessions, and I'm currently reading von Simson's The Gothic Cathedral and Wilson's The Holy Roman Empire, which both address this. A few obvious books would by City of God, Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy and the Divine Comedy, but I probably only have the time to read the Boethius of those. What are some other relevant books?
Also can anyone recommend/comment on Chris Wickham's The Inheritance of Rome?
There's the time traveller's guide to medieval
England, but it's pretty light reading.
Generally I'd say reading as much as possible from the time period is a good idea.
>>3022918
Pro tip: "Middle Ages" is set of European myths and legends. They were created in 18-20 centuries and were inserted between real Antiquity and real Renaissance to extend nartional stories (WE WERE KHANGZ).
Will you seriously research mind of characters of Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings?
What philosopher would you want to go on a date with?
>>3022706
None, they're all fucking losers and I'm out of their league. Except for maybe Camus, he was a Chad.
Foucault was a disgusting human being, inside and out.
>>3022712
What makes you say that
ITT: historical figures you feel sad for
>>3022635
That's not a figure that's a coin retard
>>3022635
>feeling sad for a barbarian
???
>>3022657
Odoacer was a good barbarian, like Stilicho
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNcwaR2xW1Q
Jesus Christ Marie, they're minerals
>>3022428
it was amusing the first time. not the 40th.
What was the most impressive historical artifact that you saw by your own eyes?
That painting was pretty impressive one for me.
>>3022392
I wanna pet him on the head and kiss his beard
>>3022392
Got to see the hand of St Francis Xavier when it came to Australia for World Youth Day. Picture doesn’t do it justice.
>>3022392
I was in The Museum of Natural History in NY and some guy was rolling through one of the exhibit floors with a cart and the person i was there with stopped him and asked him what he was rolling around. The guy ended up pulling out a strand of woolly mammoth hair and let me and a few others touch it before he rolled on. Natural history, but still pretty cool imo.
>Hitler and his party disarmed the peo--
https://youtu.be/j_bRHDR84Vs
Oh...
>literal massacre on a massive scale took place in Russia in 1917 led by the Bolshevik Jews
>Communist Jews instigate Civil War in Germany in 1918
>Hitler would suddenly disarm his citizens
You're not this retarded, are you? Who started this meme?
>>3022076
Probably the retarded brother of the retard who keeps confusing the spartacist uprising with the German Revolution.
>>3022082
/thread
/OP's life
>>3022082
>this much self projection
You're the one that is confused.