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>>3021183

Persia is a geographical term as well as an ethnic one. What would you prefer them to say, "earliest evidence found in a country whose name is unknown"?

>>3021183
Why the fuck are you playing a sleazy 70s board game anyway?

Nobody plays that shit anymore.

>>3022030
They should say the name of the civilization that invented it

Well part of that, especially in Germany and Italy, is that the numerous little states that were independent for hundreds or thousands of years were often nigh but single cities or at the most, nations the size of Bulgaria. These nations had to learn how to subsist by themselves so they did not get invaded, and learned how to become autonomous and tough enough to survive the onslaught of invading forces.


When an outside force unites these states, (Prussia and Sardinia), the states, who are already able to hold off invaders on their own, now have a huge union of other states who did the same to fight with, essentially meaning that developing and training and getting good forts and defenses is much easier if not already done.


Not to mention that a place like Germany and Russia is naturally rich, which certainly doesn't hurt.

>>3021081
>the country ends up as a power house
>Italy
???

>>3021081
Why Albania though?

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Its a place somewhere...

>>3020383
Portuguese.

> I'm the same btw

I'm not able to flesh out a proper length answer rn, however I am able to recommend Classified by the hilariously name HG Cocks

>Why are they always depicted as cartoonishly treacherous and egotistical?

You can thank Shakespeare.

>>3020169
Fucking Anglo revisionism

>>3020201
Devious, backstabbing Italians was a very common theme in English plays. See Romeo & Juliet.

theyre a bunch of nobodies who never had any real power or influence.

Every international since the 2nd has been illegitimate

Trotsky was buttblasted because Stalin kicked him out of power. He criticized him by going on about muh bureaucratized state when he took part in the government that instituted a totalitarian state (it wasn't born with Stalin). He went around with the Red Army massacring people who opposed his regime.
His retarded followers think that because he opposed Stalin he was different from him.

Zionism = Support for a Jewish homeland.

Yes I'm a Zionist. Every race deserves their own homeland where they can restrict immigration to their own kind.

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>greetings fellow aryans my name is jakob Goldstein...er I mean Josef goebells..we must sacrifice our dysgenic ostjuden cousins to give us an impetus to create Israel...er I mean we must make the Reich judenfrei...never mind our financiers work on our wall street...run along now be a good little German

>>3019853
you are implying that any merit/skill that the athlete has is purely based on luck; have you perhaps considered that the footballers (and frankly, any other profession) who are rewarded handsomely for what they do are given such rewards proportionately to their merit? Arbitrary headhunting and luck doesn't decide 5 million euro salaries, skill and hard work does.

The kids at school didn't decide not to let you sit with them at lunch because of luck, OP

>>3019658
I remember some book with Pandora's Box in the title or subtitle, and it talked about the USSR as the "rule of engineers", comparing it to the rule of soldiers (aristocracy, monarchies...) and rule of businessmen (capitalists).
It was the ideological look, the dream scenario of how things should've been if everything went according to plan.
Try to find that, I can't find it right now myself.

Also on the ideology/commie side of things, every intelligent communist supported knew Russia can't do it.
The idea is you go from a capitalist state to a communist one. You need a decades or even centuries long capitalist rule before the communist rule, to set up factories and production and have a big economy.
Russia didn't have capitalists at all. It went from "rule of soldiers" to "rule of engineers", and was poor.
The idea was for Russia to setup the revolution in Germany, and for Germany to become the real communist nest, and support Russia with factory, specialists, academics, etc. That failed, when mercenaries and volunteers in Germany crushed their revolution during WWI, and basically even before WWI had ended, the communist revolution had failed, since it only won in places with zero capitalist, and no framework or infrastructure.

This saw Trotsky saying they need to conquer more advanced land, conquer other people to continue the revolution there.
On the other side, Stalin said they need to fake some period of capitalism, by having the state be a capitalist for a few generations, industrializing rapidly, providing free education and so on, and then move to communism once its done.
They had a fight, one was exiled and died, the other died before he could complete his plan, and the rest is a slow decay, a ship thats too large to sink fast rotting as its corpse floats.

Correlation doesn't equal causation. Colonial powes made up big states in the regions they formerly occupied, throwing together a bunch of different ethnicities that don't belong because nationalist pressure was so high that they couldn't properly deal with the situation.

>>3019615
This. My guess is once you control for other factors (IQ, style of government, coastlines, resources, etc.) the correlation between size and wealth will vanish.

>>3019087
>like didn't the original pagans believe that they were decedents of Odin or Seaxneot? How could an Italian be a Norse pagan?

'Pagan' is a pretty giant umbrella. Let's look at th Romans for example. It was literally imperial policy to fit the gods of people thy met into their own pantheon. Zeus is the Supreme god of the Greeks? That's another name for our Jupiter! They did this same shit with the Celts. They also didn't care who you worshiped, as long as to acknowledged that the Emps was also a god.

>>3019102
And on the other side, there was the followers of traditional faiths like Slavic polytheism or the various Celtic beliefs which varied from one community to the other.
I wouldn't say old beliefs were centered around ethnicity at all, in the case of the "isolationist" it was based more around the village or tribal unit considering this was at a time when communication between communities was limited considerably.