Why did Russia fuck over itself by giving the RSFSR such small area under the Soviet Union?
They could have drawn the internal borders so that all ethnic Russian areas would be theirs.
>>3228097
>Why did Russia fuck over itself
Soyuz Nerushimy autism
>by giving the RSFSR such small area under the Soviet Union?
you have a really fucking funny concept of small
>>3228097
>They could have drawn the internal borders so that all ethnic Russian areas would be theirs
they did
borders of RSFSR indicated areas populated by russians
at that time
>>3228097
>>3228117
Also to follow up on this, I'm just going to throw in that borders of Russian soviet republic hardly reflected areas populated by hulking majority of ethnic Russians. Russia itself has quite a few sizeable ethnic groups with their own republics (Komi, Buryatia, Udmutria, Dagestan, etc), most of them established under Soviets in 20's and 30's
Supposedly in the old days people drank alcohol because the water was dirty. But alcohol dehydrates you. How can you survive off it?
>>3228047
They drank it diluted in a lot of water, retard
>>3228050
No, they drank water with alcohol, not alcohol diluted in water.
In rome they always mixed wine with water
Operation Unthinkable is launched with the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945, and the Allies launch a surprise assault against the Soviets.
What happens /his/?
>>3227748
>What happens /his/?
allies experience what its like fighting a real army and suffer losses never seen before
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sxTbfeYdO0
is playing as the Red Army holds parade in the 3rd time conquered Paris in 6years
the forming of Dutch, Belgian, German, French Danish Swedish Italianand Austrian Soviet Ppls Republic happens
>>3227748
>What happens /his/
Operation "Unthinkable" had a really fitting name. There was no way for this operation to succeed. There were millions of Soviets soldiers in Europe and the USSR had superiority both in manpower and vehicles. The Red Army had more tanks than the Americans and the British combined. Don't forget the fact that the French communist party would also help the USSR by sabotaging allied infrastructure in France.
The only real advantage the allies had were american nukes. However, the bombs would have to be transported by plane to their target and the USSR had total air superiority in Eastern Europe.
The true redpill is realizing that he was the best general in the Union Army.
>>3226994
That's not Winfield Scott. That's the guy who had the Army of Northern Virginia's nuts in a vise at Antietam and didn't crush them utterly.
>>3226994
t. edgelord 12 year old who read his first civil war history book and decided to be contrarian.
He could have ended the war before it dissolved into a bloody slaughter, but didn't, because he was a fucking coward.
Excellent organizer though, his army he built won the war.
Are human born good or evil?
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
>>3226854
The darker the human, the more its soul is tainted with evil.
>>3226854
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/are-babies-born-good-165443013/
Since this a humanities board as well, I'd like to bring up my theory of why the Zombie movie/show has taken America by storm. It could be called a fad, but the cult following for zombie movies, TV, videogames, and literature has been entrenched in the American media landscape for over fifty years now, if we set the beginning at the original Night of the Living Dead movie in the sixties.
Now, common theories for why they're popular, zombies are disgusting, rotting corpses that have an insatiable hunger for flesh. Humans have a natural fear of predators and also a rational fear of the unburied rotting carcasses.
There's also the apocalyptic vein many of the movies have, with at worst humanity being almost entirely wiped out and the remaining people have to scavange until inevitable death due to a lack of ability to find or build a safe zone. In better circumstances, there are isolated walled cities where normally comfy Americans live in constant fear and squalor under war lords a la The Land of the Dead or a great war in which humanity prevails a la WWZ.
There are thousands of titles in some each form of media consumption available, and zombie fever has gone so far that toy and firearms manufacturers make the perfect zombie killing weapons to sell to fans, though these fans (especially firearms collectors) know there is zero chance of a WWZ/walking dead/George A. Romero type of zombie outbreak ever happening. Im sure the toy companies and firearms manufacturers are great sponsors of TV shows like the walking dead.
Here's my hypothesis: The planet is vastly overpopulated, with the majority of the billions being in extremely dire poverty. They're very aware of their own mortality and the competition for the most basic of needs and often have a "do or die, sink or swim" view of life that IS an insatiable hunger to claw over eachother in desperation to get to a "safe zone" (Cont)
>>3226641
Keep going anon.
>>3226641
>the planet is overpopulated
XDD STFU FAGGOT OVERPOPULATION IS DEBUNKED!!
I've always thought that the reason Zombies are popular is the same reason Nazi's are popular as bad guys- it's a villain you can unleash the most brutal, violent urges you have in a guilt-free way. People like feeling righteous indignation, the feeling that you are completely justified to use violence, and zombies and Nazi's fulfill this as bad guys who are totally morally reprehensible. The same reason why ideologies like Communism and Fascism are so appealing, because it paints it's adherents as crusaders in a holy war against a despicable evil.
Zombies are even better than Nazi's though, because we don't even rank them as human. For example, chainsaws and other melee weapons are so e of the most popular weapons to use against zombies in media, because they are so ultra gory, but even when used against Nazi's, the sheer brutality of them against a living, breathing human who was once a child can turn people off.
>"The vast majority of monarchs were bad."
t. my highly intelligent dad who has a degree in engineering, medicine, and anthropology
>"Well I disagree, actually the vast majority of monarchs were okay, alot of them weren't bad."
t. virgin NEET son who has a higher modicum of knowledge in history than his father
Well, who's right, /his/?
>>3226626
How are you defining "good" "okay" and "bad" in regard to monarch performance? Are you two even using the same set of definitions?
>>3226626
hi mister, can u tel me were my fren charles is?
>>3226629
I'm saying "okay" as in average performance, he's saying "bad" as in shitty performance.
Would it have been worth it to wipe out the Soviets and Chinese during the last days of world war 2?
>>3226279
Probably not. You're talking about starting WW3 on the ashes of WW2 against an even larger economy. While it's probably ultimately doable, the cost in both blood and treasure would be fucking colossal.
Would it have been worth it to drive the capitalists out of Germany and Europe after the liberation of Berlin?
>>3226294
yeah
I recently found out about the battle of Saint Louis bridge during which 9 French soldiers held off 5000 Italians for about a little more than a week, but I can't find anymore in-depth information... Can /his/ give me juicy details or links about this crazy event ?
>>3226181
it was 9 frenchmen and a dog, actually
>>3226186
It was 9 dogs*
>>3226186
Source ?
Is it true that the American high command was infiltrated by communist spies, up to the President's advisors ? And that it is the reason why the USA discarded Patton's plan and let the Soviet Union take half of Europe ?
Was Roosevelt a crypto-communist ?
Not true, Governor Romney, not true.
>>3225976
I know I sound like a conspiratard, but I want to know if it's worth my time digging into this. So tell me if it's bullshit.
>>3226033
Dig into the Business Plot. Do it before /pol/ delets all the evidence.
What led to the decline of the American Mafia in the later parts of the 20th century? Why aren't they as powerful as they were before?
they moved onto the corporate world or got ate up by it
>>3225871
Anti racketing laws
>>3225871
Without prohibition, it was much harder to tap into a market that was simultaneously illegal (meaning that you could have people susceptible to their extortion rackets who couldn't just go to the police), profitable (So they could pay out) and considered a harmless vice (limiting the willingness of people to crack down on them and cut into their own booze supplies). The decline in prohibition led almost inevitably to the decline in the mafia's revenues, and then in turn to the decline of their power.
How did the Japanese react when they finally learned that they aren't really children of some sun goddess, but literally chink and korean emigrants?
>>3225675
Pobably like the average /pol/tard after realizing he's not really nordic
or like the average leftie after finding out there's no sane way to interpret Marx.
>>3225675
t. they haven't found out yet
>>3225675
they deny it to this day
Are the soldiers of the modern age superior to older soldiers in every way? (assuming the old soldiers had the same weapons systems and there where no advanced joint ops... just 15 dudes vs 15 dudes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYnCrLRZJIc
I know there where life soldiers in days of old, but how hard did they train? Should we be naming old soldiers after newer ones to honor them?
>>3225522
I imagine if you pitted 100 soldiers from the Civil War against 100 modern US Army infantry in hand-to-hand combat (i.e. no shooting, bayonets only), the Civil War infantrymen could overpower their modern counterparts because they had more experiences in actually fighting hand-to-hand (as opposed to just training for it), were trained to fight together as a cohesive formation, and their weapons were designed with it in mind, whereas the modern infantryman's rifle is design with use in hand-to-hand as an afterthought.
>>3225709
Probably would have had higher test, also,
>>3225522
Yes. People back then were skinny little Manlets. Soldiers nowadays train better. And actually want to fight unlike those poor bastards who were forced to. A modern marine could easily take out 10 soldiers from the civil warr
> Compares everything to stupid baby boomer cultural references
> Mispronounces everything
> Episodes that are too fucking long
> Exaggerates events
> Fawns over non-western cultures
Why does everyone love his podcast again?
>>3225381
>Fawns over non-western cultures
How dare he
>>3225381
I agree, I unsubscribed from his media.
>>3225386
he can't stop talking about how barbarians are better than romans, mongols better that caucasians, russians better than germans, etc. it's fucking tiring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvVfgvHucRY
3:38
is there any truth to this "we wuz kangz" meme?
America was a mistake.
>>3225355
2:38*