What was Germany realistically to do with so many soviet pows? Feeding them and providing them shelter would cause an unreasonable strain on their logistics and resources. It's not like the jews where most of them were unfit people that could barely work. These guys could be a major pain in the ass if they revolted. I don't blame them for starving them all to death.
>>1963824
The Germans would do what they did to the six trillion shekels: Force them into camps or kill them.
Why starve them to death slowly? If you want to be pragmatic about it, just kill them all en masse it's far more humane that way.
>>1963835
Because killing of POWs is unlawful.
can /his/ recommend some other nonfiction?
wew those are some shitty books (aside from the 2 on the left)
>>1963747
how are they shitty?
>all that post-2001, airport store NatSec
Absolutely disgusting.
You need some history and way more philosophy fäm.
How bout I throw out some combos and you tell me what you think: lPerino's 'Lincoln in the World' and a critical edition of Thoreau's 'Walden'?
Or here's another you might like that will start to take you from pleb to autodidact: Barry's 'Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul' and a critical edition of Burke's 'Reflections'?
Who /brezhnev/ here?
>>1963666
Bully and a thug
>"Communism isn't working, therefore we need more communism"
That is Brezhnevs doctrine in a nutshell
>>1963666
>Yay, stagnation!
You like a meme son.
We have Sporus and Mori Ranmaru, what's some other great historical boipucci?
/lgbt/ needs to be deleted
>>1963617
>Forgetting Elagabalus
Rome literally allowed a Boipucci to be Emperor.
>>1964387
He was just a gaylord, not even a trap or cute.
>>1964377
It's not gay if it's cute.
Does Washington deserve the deification?
protip: none of them do
the irony is lost on Amerifats when they shit on third world countries for their cult of personalities but they pull the same shit with muh founding fathers
>>1963354
The irony is how retarded you sound thinking you know jack shit about anything. Few people give two shits about historical figures, and Americans give among the least fucks of all of em. America bashing is like the litmus test for full blown idiocy
>>1963346
Hearing you say that would probably horrify him.
Into which language does Arabic translate better, English, or Spanish? I'm planning to buy a quran.
>>1963291
>I'm planning to buy a quran
For what purpose?
>>1963297
To learn about the message of Islam.
>>1963314
As long as you keep an unbiased level head whilst reading you'll see it's pretty much the same as the Bible and Torah. Anyone who says different is autistic.
The moment warfare went wrong
what do you mean? this is when it began to stop being retarded by stopping people from overpowering each other with nothing but numbers.
>>1962909
wrong
the big colonizer
Tell me about life in communist Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and DDR
Girlfriend's parents were part of Czechoslovakia, the dad was an orthodox Christian (though it's a majority Catholic country) something or other happened and he wasn't allowed to travel to Moscow (which he always wanted to do) - I think because he was not part of the communist party, though my gf's mum was, and even participated in spartakiada, and when my gf's dad has too many drinks he sometimes brings it up and takes the piss
>>1962864
Also everyone had jobs, even gypsies, and if you didn't, you were sent to prison. Funny how Bernie Sanders' supporters never bring that up.
>>1963030
>and if you didn't, you were sent to prison.
>implying good communists don't want welfare cheating degenerates to go to prison and stop leeching the people
Given the political infrastructure of the US government, has a dictatorship/coup ever been real possibility?
Are there to many checks and balances for this to realistic? What's the closest we've ever cer come?
>>1962465
G Wash
>>1962465
*for this to be realistic
Sorry
Business plot, but a lot of people say it was made up.
favorite generals of all time?
>>1962219
Georgy 'brilliant tactician' Zhukov.
>>1962219
Is there really any question
Who was the coolest serial killer and why was it Carl Panzram?
>commited like 21 murders, intercontinentally
>assraped hundreds of men
>escaped from prison, kicked out of army
>big and strong
I like the guy that was on death row in the 20s and humanitarian organizations tried to get his death sentence overturned and he wrote them a letter cursing them out and saying that if he was free he'd kill them too. Guy was a total edge lord.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Niers
It's like a fucking Witcher villain.
Charles Manson.
Yes, he is a serial killer. He was just never charged with the murders he personally committed because of lack of evidence.
I've been reading up a bit about the Scythians/Sarmatians and I'm interested. It seems to keep popping up, but I never get a full picture of them
Any recommendations of where to learn about them
>>1962011
The Scythian people had a rather interesting horse economy based around selling their horse archers to unidentified peoples beyond the Steppes. They were able to gather such riches from this that they could instantly buy up enough artisans/craftsman to build fortifications and homes.
Also they believed they healed when ever they killed the enemy which made them unbeatable. Cyrus the Great once advocated that only the gods could truly patch them up under a flag.
Try this, chapter II:
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8882.html
>>1962259
http://14.139.206.50:8080/jspui/bitstream/1/1226/1/Beckwith,%20Christopher%20-%20Empires%20of%20the%20Silk%20Road.pdf
The actual book for free here.
What was his problem?
roman trump
He liked a bit of a tussle.
>>1961636
He grew really bitter and paranoid in his old age.
Does anyone remember the political parties, let alone individual politicians, of past centuries? While everyone remembers the conquerors and dictators just fine! That is how the slaves pay homage to those they supposedly revere — by entirely forgetting them...
>>1961562
What's your point?
Well then, why don't we have a thread of great statesmen?
>>1961562
Yes, actually any American who pays attention in school will know about Whigs, Tories, the Bull Moose party and so on and will probably have at least one politician they wrote a report on.
Are we living in a simulation?
>>1961264
Yes