Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.
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48·16 hours agoExplanation: Alexander Kerensky, the effective leader of the Provisional Government of Russia after the fall of the Tsar, was ousted by the Bolsheviks, and eventually settled in the US, where he taught Russian history. One suspects that the events of 1917 were a little awkward to go over in class.
The author is talking for Poles without showing that’s actually what Poles said.
Then you admit that it did claim that the Polish people thought the West sold them to the Soviets, contrary to what you said.
But hey, here, have the Polish PM in exile’s own words:
“(…) the decisions made by the ‘Big Three’ were prepared and taken not only without the involvement of the Polish Government, but also without its knowing. This kind of behavior in relation to Poland is not only a denial of elementary principles which apply to allies, but it is an unquestionable violation of the letter and spirit of the Atlantic Charter and the right of everyone to defend his own interests. For this reason, the decisions taken at the Conference cannot be recognized by the Polish Government and cannot be binding upon the Polish Nation. The Polish Nation sees the detachment of the eastern lands by imposing the so-called Curzon Line as the Polish-Soviet border as a new partition of Poland, this time by Polish allies.”
I read that entire first article and nowhere does it claim the Polish people thought that the West sold them to Soviets.
Clearly you didn’t read it thoroughly enough. Early on in that first article:
For Poles, Balts, and many others in Central Europe, Yalta means a betrayal of their countries and the United States’ abandonment of its core values on the altar of Great Power politics; they (and Ukrainians) fear the United States will be tempted by a “second Yalta” in which Washington and Moscow make deals at their expense.
I mean, at this point in the movie he’s not the bad guy, yet. He gives a report to the board about how things are going well in the company, and then is told that the board is effectively firing him, because they got a sweet offer to sell.
Explanation: Due to negotiations during WW2, it was agreed between the Western Allies and Stalin that Eastern Europe would be occupied by the USSR - including Poland, which had fought fiercely against the Nazis and against Soviet domination, and whose government-in-exile and partisans were a major ally of the Western powers. It is, understandably, still seen as a betrayal by many in Poland.
I actually had no clue what they were XD
Explanation: The Easter Uprising in 1916 was an attempt by the Irish to win their independence from the British by, uh, uprising. Irish Throwing Stars are not a thing. Cu Chulainn is a warrior of ancient Irish legend, and certainly was not alive in 1916, if he ever existed. Churchill was smote by his own alcoholism, while Margaret Thatcher (not born at the time of the uprising, but hated by the Irish nonetheless) unfortunately lived a long life, in the vein of Henry Kissinger, proving that the inverse of ‘the good die young’ is ‘evil fucks live to old age’.
Explanation: What we now call the Byzantine Empire was referred to by Catholics as the Empire of the Greeks, but called itself the Roman Empire of old.
But if it was the Roman Empire, as it claimed… why did it not control the city of Rome? CHECKMATE, BYZIEBOOS!
1·2 days agoTap in many places has a distinctive ‘taste’ to it. A cheap filter is WAY more useful (and way cheaper) than bottled water though.
Explanation: The first bust is of Hannibal Barca, the famous Carthaginian general. The second is a Medieval portrait of Scipio Africanus, a contemporary Roman general whose father was killed by Carthaginian forces dispatched by Hannibal (and commanded by his brother) in Spain.
Problem? Hannibal had in the course of his stunning military victories, by some estimates, killed one in five Roman males alive at the time, so there were quite a few dead Roman fathers to his name.
Explanation: Cornelia, the widowed mother of the Brothers Gracchi, two major and radical reformers for the rights of the common people during the Late Republic, famously refused a marriage proposal from the King of Egypt, purportedly due to a desire to see to the upbringing of her sons personally. This was seen as very virtuous and dutiful - a true Roman matron!
Mark Antony, seen at the bottom, divorced his (Roman) wife and married the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, and was denigrated, at the time, as having become ‘Egyptianized’. Clearly, he did not possess the same wherewithal of will to resist the allure of royalty, unlike fair Cornelia!
The only difference between the two is that the former held more legal and social power. The incel is just the rotted stump of patriarchy; the remains.
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“(It’s me, I’m the state)”
During the American Revolutionary War, some of the battles that happened involved large numbers of troops but comparatively low casualties on both sides. This is in part due to the fact that both sides, but especially the American revolutionaries, relied heavily on militia, who were generally unwilling to die for the cause or remain under withering fire for an extended period of time.
SSTF to the wiki:
Artillery kills, true, but also, the American Revolutionary War was not quite a normal beast. You see much lower casualty percentages than in, say, the Napoleonic Wars shortly thereafter.
Many of the American troops were militia who were not keen on hanging around and getting killed, which meant that battles often ended before significant casualties were taken by either side. In only a few battles, like Long Island, Camden, and Cowpens, was there a real slug-out between Continental Regulars and Redcoats, and those incidents had much higher casualties.
Their presence on .world comms is much reduced compared to what it used to be.
Hitler: “All this pagan stuff Himmler is into doesn’t interest me.”
Also Hitler: [whatever the fuck this is]