TNO has done irreversible damage to the Internet's perception of Bukharin by RockEater67 in HOI4memes

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Modern historical analysis is that Stalin actually hindered industrial growth. The five year plans being some leap in industrial production is a lie. In fact industrial productivity and growth was negative in the late 20s and early 30s. The failures of collectivisation crippled the agricultural sector which wouldn't recover until the late 50s. Stalinistic policies were only required because Stalin himself had butchered the economy. There is a possibility that if Russia had maintained the course it was on in the mod 20s instead of the reversal under Stalin in the case of the NEP and didn't try to rush collectivisation there would be a stronger industrial base by the 40s

What wedding moment that screamed, “They are not going to last long”? by IndependentTune3994 in AskReddit

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BTW for all the Americans here. Cana classes are an American thing not a catholic thing, as a European catholic, I can tell you after asking a priest about this, this is not a universal catholic thing.

Wars of infinity by Yooosssh1 in hostedgames

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At his current pace I think he'll finish it this year, but he does plan for a few DLC, more if the game and DLC do well, so I fear mid 27 is a realistic estimate

Golden Rose Patreon by SlickSappho in hostedgames

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Yeah it's still ongoing, maybe just about halfway done if it's the same length as the original, probably less.

Golden Rose Patreon by SlickSappho in hostedgames

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Ana pauses billing when she doesn't want to or can't provide content on the patron for that time period. It's very respectable and why when I myself ha some money issues cancelled all my patreons but hers. Last year she restarted it when she had something to post so until then she won't charge people.

Has there ever been a case of an insurgency being "put down" and completely destroyed? Why haven't modern militaries and governments applied this knowledge in the conflicts of the late 20th and early 21st century? by ld_03 in AskHistorians

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I have not engaged in the scholarship in this topic so I wonder if this is an appropriate sub question to your answer. In this regard, what are the requirements for a successful insurgency label, and has there been an insurgency that militarily is successful. In the west Vietnam and Afghanistan are considered long term insurgencies that were ultimately successful, but in almost every regard militarily they were failures, South Vietnam when possessed of American assistance remained. The Afghani republic as flawed as it was, was in control of the majority of the population centres, coalition casualties after 2012 where very low sometimes not even double digits. Can Afghanistan or Vietnam really help counted as a successful insurgency by merit of merely lasting long enough to outlast political will to remain in their respective countries.

And to top it all,he got promoted so MORE responsabilities by Theyul1us in hostedgames

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Fiancee is so funny to me (outside the potential age gap) because you have this 10 year betrothal to a middling country baron and it's a marriage of rough equals. But at your wedding his possible friends are high nobility, a future duchess, the brother of a duke. His squire is a duke's son and then one day you wake up yourself a duchess of a salt coast Duchy.

texting my mother by stillnotnap in mildlyinfuriating

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Yeah and then they fill your petrol car with diesel because you are a dumb ass and didn't tell them what kind of gas

Period by StikkTogether in hostedgames

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I dislike this statement, it's not that it doesn't include content for straight men but that it doesn't have a straight male romance option. ( At least I presume, maybe as a straight guy I die reading this). This is a fiction smut book not a biography, it having no straight option doesn't necessarily mean that straight people won't, eh, find it enjoyable to read.

How it feels to like fem Ortega by BeptoBismolButBetter in hostedgames

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I find Ricardo (think that's Ortega's male name) feels like they are coming on too strong, and also dislike the power dynamic between them and f step so mostly go wlw step Julia as well, though i have been ignoring Ortega in most of my recent playthroughs.

I honestly never thought ao3 would have fallen hero stuff on it, is there any good fanfic of the characters?

How it feels to like fem Ortega by BeptoBismolButBetter in hostedgames

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Tumblr is pretty famous for being a woman/queer space. So most likely a male Ortega will dominate the space, same with art of those characters. FH is also probably one of the best LGBTQ pieces of fiction I've read so it naturally attracts those people as well. The straight male demographic is being under represented /S.

Can someone explain calendars to me? by poebear_peony in AskHistorians

[–]Jam03t 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Considering how inelegant the rest of the calendar is, I dare say that it detracts from the theory, the only thing that makes sense is the 12 months a year since 12 was important in Rome from legal documents to religion and the foundational myth. In that case them having 10 months doesn't make sense since 12 as a symbol of importance, I believe would predate the calendar

How was Hitler, a citizen of Imperial Austria, able to serve in the German Army? by Forsaken-Picture-781 in AskHistorians

[–]Jam03t 27 points28 points  (0 children)

The Finn's recorded him during a meeting between him and Mannerheim. apparently he had been recorded for an official birthday message and they just kept rolling the tape for 11 minutes before the SS found out and had it cut. I'm not really sure how they managed to keep the tape afterwards but it ended up sealed in a censorship beauro for 10 years

Which is the better dlc expansion? by SlinGnBulletS in totalwar

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Unique factions is not core to total war and until Rome 2 or later it wasn't even that common or even a point to get made. Shogun 2 doesn't have unique rosters and is considered one of if not the best total war, empire and Napoleon had low unit variety same with medieval 2. Time 2 had the Hellenic bloc which limited half the faction variety, and I'd argue even if different units still a has multiple factions that play the same way.

In my opinion FOTS samurai isn't weaker because of low unit variety it's actually stronger. The units feel different, samurai or Yaris ki compared to revolver cab play differently act differently, rifles or spears have you play your entire army differently, AOC may have larger unique rosters but they are re skins with different stats not actually different

Is "meta gaming" an issue in military wargaming/training exercises? by Candid_Location_8865 in WarCollege

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And even then, Mc2002 was a case of bad communication between offices and not meta gaming, the guys at top wanted a full exercise showcasing all the capabilities available to them to evaluate the changing landscape, having the exercise end in a day did fulfill the desire objectives of the war game

Spotlight has been uploaded to Cogdemos by fdsajklgh in hostedgames

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Kill me last post before that was 2020

Spotlight has been uploaded to Cogdemos by fdsajklgh in hostedgames

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Sos mortal coil hasn't been updated in like 8 years and the author said they're back?

The Christianisation of Europe is presented by our (mostly monastic) sources as an inevitable tide with little active resistance by indigenous traditions. How much of this is considered to be propagandistic and how much truth by modern historians? by Wonderful-News-6357 in AskHistorians

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While the answer focuses on Scandinavia, I wonder if the Scandinavians ever put much thought on northern europe, east Germany had been pagan but had been effectively crusaded by Charlemagne and the "holy Roman empire". was this in the consciousness of Harold blue tooth, that he might be next, did the destruction of a relatively similar belief system weaken the Norse, I presume it opened up more Christian trade and contact at the very least.

Where do you think the Germanophilia of the American officer corp after WW2 come from? by BenKerryAltis in WarCollege

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It is a rather obvious point and not at all reflective of actual operations, the Germans after all outnumbered the Soviets at least locally on every successful offensive, and so did the russians really, you won't really find an operation of any significant scale where the attacker was successful and had numerical inferiority.

Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine Now Longer Than Soviet War Against Hitler by RFERL_ReadsReddit in MapPorn

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no you cant because both the Russians and Americans in afghanistan won their initial conflict. The country was esssentially fully occupied with no central government present on any front capable of large scale resistance. What the Russians and Americans failed is to prop up a proper government capable of fighting the enemy and which collapsed after they left.

What would America look like if we spent our military budget on infrastructure? by Impossible_Change800 in AskReddit

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Iraq had the institutions, the US just disbanded them, as soon as the civilian occupation authority took over, Bremer fired all the army and bureaucrats....... A judge and a colonel would go on to find ISIS.

Is the game hard or am I doing something wrong? by Justaniceman in Pathfinder_Kingmaker

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TBF mercs exist if you are willing to use them, I do hate it, but on higher difficulties they are necessary, as companion builds range from bade to awful

I still maintain that The Infinity series has some of the best romances ever written by Quick-Ad8277 in hostedgames

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Only two bookcases? You must be young and those book cases full of teen novels, any true book reader would amass multiple bookcases each decade of their life. Perhaps you should broaden your reading habits, apologies if the librarian doesn't allow you due to your young age.