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>>3168608
Most reports say he at least was interested in men, so at least bisexual.

Jesus Christ, Frederick's youth was brutal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Hermann_von_Katte
>In the spring of 1730 Frederick revealed to Katte that he had a plan to flee to Great Britain as a way to leave his harsh and despotic father. At first, Katte tried to hold Frederick back, yet at the end supported Frederick's plan to escape. On 5 August 1730, while the royal retinue was near Mannheim in the Electorate of the Palatinate, Frederick tried to escape from his quarters. At that point Katte stayed in Potsdam. A compromising letter unmasked Katte as an accomplice and Frederick and Katte were subsequently arrested and imprisoned in Küstrin. However because they were army officers who had tried to flee Prussia for England, Frederick William I leveled an accusation of treason against the pair.
>A court martial found Katte guilty of desertion and sentenced him to lifelong imprisonment; but King Frederick Wilhelm I ordered the sentence changed to beheading, declaring that "it would be better that Katte came to death than the justice out of the world." As Katte was an officer of the King's Guard, the King argued that if Katte were let off lightly (a life sentence would only last until Frederick William died), the King's Guard could never be trusted again. All petitions of mercy for Katte, including one from Frederick, were ignored.
>Katte was beheaded at the fortress of Küstrin where the king forced Frederick to watch the execution. However when he was brought up to be executed, Frederick shouted in French to Katte, "Veuillez pardonner mon cher Katte, au nom de Dieu, pardonne-moi!" ("Please forgive, my dear Katte, in God's name, forgive me."). Katte called back in the same language, "There is nothing to forgive, I die for you with joy in my heart!" Frederick then fell to the floor in a dead faint.

Of course he was

Old Fritz biopic starring Kevin Spacey when!?

fuck me
meant to add this in the OP


1547
>Tsardom first established
>government form is autocracy
Autocracy, from at least what I read, seems to be almost a socialist monarchy? Which is practically the opposite of the values that the United States was founded on.

1721
>Russian Empire is proclaimed
>also a autocracy

1781
>Russia is asked to help the British in the Revolutionary War
>Catherine the Great declines
This is one of the few positive moments in the relationship, but it's also obvious that she only refused because she knew it'd make King George a laughing stock.

1866
>America is in the Civil War
>Russia sends some troops to help the North so that the British and French would not get involved
Russians did not ever help the Union directly, but it did prevent the U.K. and France from helping the South.

1867
>Alaska purchase
>the last "good" moment in American-Russian history

1918
>allied intervention in the Russian Civil War
>American forces fight the bolsheviks which pisses them off
Many historians view this as the reason the Cold War would eventually occur.

1946
>the end of WW2
>relations are now hostile between Russia and the U.S.
>both because of the clashing systems of government as well as the American help during the Russian Civil War

2000
>Putin comes to power
>he is authoritarian by American standards
>low freedom of the press
>heavy corruption
>militaristic
All things that directly go against the United States and her interests

The more I look at it I just can't see any way that the United States and Russia would not have eventually become Rivals? Am I wrong in seeing it this way?

fun fact

russia has a smaller economy than italy

>>3168555
I'm not trying to talk about something like if they are powerful or not.
I'm implying that the way the two countries history is, and how the governments were founded that it is inevitable that they would eventually clash.

They were clearly Cypriots Who hired fireign mercenaries from Anatolia and The west and allied with Berbers

>>3168499
they were very obviously g*rmans

even historians dont know this one

>>3168271
>nobility means rich people
Amerifat education

Yes, but they were relatively powerless compared to the Tycoons of the late 19th century

>>3168271

SLAVEOWNERS ARE NEITHER NOBLE, NOR ARISTOCRATIC, SO, NO.

No, Nihilism is a joke.

>>3168177
That cunny in the middle is asian not western.

Dat loli in the back.

>>3168137
Alright even accepting that as true why did their kid, grandkids, great grandkids, etc. deserve slavery

t. everything I know about slavery comes from /pol/

>>3168137
I'd frankly rather be just be shot then work at a sugar plantation in the Caribbean.

ferqeueadloimty

a measured amount of both to provide security and opportunity while encouraging personal growth

>>3168129
Socialism.

>>3168085
gave me a sensitive chuckle, have a (you)

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>tfw born the day the allies landed in Italy

>>3169681
I was born the day Princess slutbag died in a car crash.

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>>3168008
They were enslaved by Muslims not Christians. A good chunk of them were Muslims originally or at least affiliated with Islam through exposure. The rest were animist. Like KeK worship.

>>3168008
>didn't they have their own religion?
A lot of the African diaspora of religions have their roots in Yoruba, so not every slave allowed themselves to get completely cucked out of their original religion. In some cases it just evolved.
>were they forbidden to profess it?
In every instance that I can think of, yes.

>>3168045
Islam was a faith of trade and education, the Fulani Jihads came later and were the result of pre-arab racial supremacy.

Ferenji should learn before speaking on Africa.
>>3168008
Christianity or rather imagery and loose ideas of Christianity were already forming amongst Africans before wholesale enslavement into the new world.

But also in the US, traditional faiths were stamped out, you still had small things in places like the Low country and Louisiana but mostly because of the policies and ideals of slaving using Christianity to make their captive docile and "saved" along with a much, much higher native born rate Christianity took hold.

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>>3167978
well no shit the panther would defeat the t-34 head on, but look at the logistics. T-34 was a great tank which was easy to assemble with a country that had a wealth of material. On the other hand, the Panther was expensive and difficult to build and had low production values due to Germany not having a lot of resources.

It is ridiculous to assume that the Panther had a bigger effect on the outcome of the war than the T-34

which one won the war?

>>3167978
What's the point of comparing a medium tank to a much more expensive heavy tank? I'm not a T-34 fanboy - I actually think the Sherman was the best medium tank of the war. But comparing the T-34 to the Panther doesn't make a lot of sense.

>>3167825
If you grew up as a kid in the 90s it was THE war everyone kept talking about all the time.

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After fighting and winning every single one of my battles... I can say I have seen it all and know my shit. Everything was justified by all sides... everything.

Pic very related.

I understand the testimony given by the 15 year old daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador about Iraqi's plundering hospitals and killing babies ended up being false, but did the war crimes and oppressive occupation of Kuwait by Saddam's forces warrant an invasion?

>>3167813
*being that not even him would be part of it or either that he would be disolved on it as well?

>>3167813
>experience a pure "nothingness"
an experience is something whichc implies an experiencer which is also something, therefore you have two things which is not nothingness

>>3167813
>Would such "nothingness" or void disprove the existence of a sentient god
in the abrahamic faiths alone, not to mention others, one finds many mystics who speak of god as a "divine nothingness"

>>3167807
Mostly the latter. There was anger all over France contributing to the fall of the Monarchy. But the insane ideological part of the Revolution was all Paris.

After the fall of the King, the revolutionaries waged wars such as the Vendee against the rest of France in order to destroy its distinctiveness and force revolutionary ideology on it.

>>3167807
>Was the American Revolution really an "American" revolution, or was it mostly a revolution by crazy Pennsylvanians?

>>3167833
Not OP but that's not comparable. America by definition is decentralized as fuck, while in France, Paris is literally the only place that matters and forces everyone else to follow the course it sets.

>>3167741
>any age without internets and NEETbux
>comfy

Pick one and only one. A mud hut might look comfy, but it's not so comfy when you're getting up at dawn literally every day and working all day just to avoid starving to death.

>>3167741
>bronze age >>>>>>>> iron age
Buttblasted Mittani spotted

>>3167769
Third world shitholes are happier than first world places