Could it have been reformed and survive to this day? Was collapse inevitable due to the ethnic makeup?
>Ivan, we have ruined everything. Our state was so terrible it could not even be mercy killed. What will we do? Russia will be despised for this for as long as there is history!
>Vladimir, do not despair. We'll just blame the ethnicities!
>Ivan, yuo are genius.
Revisionism killed the USSR and you're saying "Could it have been reformed and survive to this day?"
are you fucking retarded?
>>1916471
amerifat tier post
it did reform. into russia.
in a communistish state? they should have learned from the norks and taken up juche.
*blocks your path*
>>1916281
"What are you gonna do, blind me!?"
- Quote from blinded Bulgar
>>1916281
>tries to talk in latin for not speaking any greek
>get's laught at cause nobody unterstand my bad acient
>become New court jester
>>1916412
+10000
Tell me about the russian civil war /his/.
>When you post this on a commie board
Something about defeating white russians, and there was those sailors who occupied one of those forts named Kronstad or something. That's all I know about the Russian Revolution
Our guys lost.
How does a ragtag volunteer army in need of a shower somehow defeat a global superpower?
>Get's practically ever historical fact wrong
>Still wins Tony's
How?
>>1916201
Technically all historical facts are probably false
Eurotard here, today someone tried to tell me catholocism was pretty big and all the black gospel stuff we see nowadays has its roots in that. As far as I've always known America was pretty anti-catholic, aside from the early spanish and french settlements.
Please aware me on how wrong I/the other person was.
I don't know what your friend is talking about. Black Americans were rarely ever Catholic because the United States was largely Protestant. The development of gospel music came about through mixing of West African styles (such as the spiritual rituals, call and response pattern and oral tradition) with Christian themes.
>>1915762
It's Scottish Protestant and West African derived
You will hardly EVER see Black Catholics in the United States. On the rare occasion that you do, they're usually Haitian or from some of the smaller islands in the Caribbean, so they're clustered around Louisiana and the Gulf Coast.
Black American Christianity is like a humid, feverish rabbithole that you can easily get lost in. It's insane.
Anyone here make completely new countries existing in our world that interact with our world's events or make completely new worlds that aren't fantasy or D&D related? There was a thread on this forever ago and it was awesome. I'm wanting to work more on my world but it's slightly daunting to say the least.
What is going on in your worlds that you made? Do you plan specific events to happen or do you have them happen randomly? (there was a youtube video of this middle-aged man that does this sort of stuff and has index cards that he draws that determine events that happen in his world or something like that)
>>1915463
>or make completely new worlds that aren't fantasy or D&D related
Define 'not fantasy'
>>1915505
>Define 'not fantasy'
Is this was autism is? OP probably means without magic, dragons, orcs and all that fantasy shit.
>>1915463
>Anyone here make completely new countries existing in our world that interact with our world's events
Latvia.
What did he mean by this?
What is the negatives of the Federal bank?
he meant he literally killed his opposition who wanted to open the door to oligarchs, in a duel.
>>1915426
>tfw the oligarchs won in the long run
We need another andrew jackson. I was not a fan of the trail of tears, but everything else was great.
Hi guys. A few weeks ago, I asked you guys what podcast you'd like to see. Medieval Christian Heresies and thus the first episode is some background on the hussite rebellion.
I encountered perhaps the craziest unknown figure while studying the background, a guy called Jan Milic. I will cover him in the episode, which you can find here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOcUVplxVOo
Post feedback in the comments of the video or in the thread, i'm aware it's not perfect and we have a lot of topics to work through:
Hussites
Lollards
Cathars
Waldensians
Bogomils
Franticelli maybe
Very eager to hear about my countrys history. Hussites were romanticized during our national rebirth so there are a lot of myths about them. Will share my thoughts in a moment. Jihlava is read as yihlava
>>1915230
Yeah, I constantly butcher the words.
http://www.speechtech.cz/cz/demo-tts#Jan210
Try this synthetizer. Its extremely hard to pronounce
To be fair i knew only about 25% of said stuff, mostly from literature classes. The eternal czech-german struggle has caused a lot of conficts. And still they are butthurt after we drove them out. Didnt know it was a major cause of hussite wars. Its commonly said that it was arrogance and greed of the catholic church.
You guys wanna rec your favorite history books? Post what you enjoyed reading.
I'm a big fan of Sarah Wise's trilogy on Victorian England (The Italian Boy, The Blackest Streets, Inconvenient People), she does a great job of telling the story in an interesting way without getting too whimsical or interpretative in her narrative. I'm also a big fan of the 19th century so that obviously helps in keeping an interest.
>>1915084
I'm oddly fixated on the German Pacific colonies and the German East Asia Squadron. Or WW1 in general.
English in the West Indies (aka Bow of Ulysses)
>tfw you will never see the Caribbean producing at its full potential, supplying the world with delicious foods
>tfw the plantations lie derelict and the native population lives in poverty and crime
>>1915105
this sounds like a really cool book actually
>do as i command or you will suffer eternal punishment
>p.s. i love you
hmmmmmm
Almost every religion forgives your sins by praying or doing some other ritual. It's not believing that is given eternal suffering.
>>1914180
>It's not believing that is given eternal suffering.
That's literally the only thing that doesn't give you eternal suffering in Christianity, in Ebrahism hell or heaven don't even exist.
What makes a hero, /his/?
Zeus ficki-ficking a mortal woman or a nymph.
A true hero saves people with a smile
>>1913083
Energy and opportunity.
>>1913104
Well said.
Everything said before him was either wrong or incomplete.
Everything said after him was/is either incorrect or superfluous.
Therefore Kant the final boss and crown jewel of the entire philosophical endeavour.
Prove me wrong. Protip: you...
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>>1912911
So what did Kant get right ?
>>1912928
He established and proved unequivocally the distinction between phenoma and things in themselves, and solved the problem of epistemology, ending the controversy between empiricism and rationalism.
The world is a purely material reality that exists in space and time and is affected by causality
The same material world is merely the form in which things appear to me as represented by my intellect
Aside from the intellect there exist nothing but sense perception
These things are absolutely unknown to us in their real nature
The elements that constitute the external phenomenal world, time and space and causality, are actually forms of the intellect we project on nature
These are cerebral functions, not something that exist independent of the mind or the brain
These findings of Kant are perfectly consistent with modern physics, neuroscience and psychology.
Germany has failed its offensive on Russia, Japan is steadily being pushed back through the islands by the US, and the Italians have failed in Africa, now depending entirely on Hitler.
Was there actually any way Hitler could have come back from this? Seems pretty inevitable that he's going to be screwed sooner or later. Anything he could have done at this point in hindsight?
No, the Axis never had a realistic chance of winning. It's a miracle the war lasted more than 2 years
>>1912726
No, not at all. He can't even realistically sue for peace, since he's burnt so many bridges getting to where he is.
Probably the best thing he could do if you're talking late 42 or onward is to allow a coup to depose and kill him, and let that government try to surrender, they might have more credibility than he himself would.
>>1912747
or allow himself to be taken alive like someone who's not a total bitch
Was he the greatest Roman emperor ever?
He was neither Roman nor an emperor.
No one is like Caligula
>>1910758
Call me when you start a non troll thread about the Ottomans.
/his/ humor thread
LOL!