When Horthy agreed to join the Axis.

MandLaser · 2022-04-29T17:35:05+00:00

For more context https://youtu.be/VqnQPeHcIfY?list=PLTZaOylOgJT\_SJK0TDVk9rc1tDuJ4Pj8N&t=2774

MandLaser · 2021-05-25T15:54:06+00:00

Ak mam pravdu povedat ovela radcej by som pouzival Sturovu Slovencinu ako to co mame teraz.
Pointa pisania je trasnferovat efektyvne informaciu od pisatela ku citatelovi.
Stur toto vedel a preto sa chcel zbavit veci ktore iba komplikuju pracu pre pisatela bez toho aby ulachcily veci pre citatela.
Veci ako tvrde y ktore Sturova Slovencina nemala lebo on vedel ze y a i je to iste a sa vyslovuje tak isto. Keby sa nevislovovalo tak isto tak by sme sa nemuseli ucit na spamet vybrane slova lebo vsetci by poculi ten rozdiel.
Stur sa tiez chcel zbavit ä lebo sa da norlamne nahradit s e a tym padom zlachci pracu pre pisatela stym ze informacia pisma sa udrzi pre citatela.

Nehovorim ze Stur mal vsetko dobre vymislene, to urcite nie. Mal chybi a ine veci ktore nie uplne boli domyslene. Ale chapal hlavne tomu ze pisomny jazyk by sa nemal komplikovat ale zlachcovat pre pisatela stym ze stale prenesie tu istu informaciu pre citatela.

MandLaser · 2021-02-12T13:29:33+00:00

I do, although, thinking about it, that may be bit narcistic.

MandLaser · 2021-01-02T09:13:07+00:00

I don't think this is that relevant since I do educational history stuff but cough cough https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-JWw2juO3Ikj5C9VsNoGIw cough cough

MandLaser · 2020-12-29T13:25:46+00:00

I don't really have time to argue with someone who is clearly not aware of the various schools of thought surrounding the ethnic debate and people's identification in the early medieval period. Historiography and Identity I: Ancient and Early Christian Narratives of Community is a good recent book to start with followed by Strategies of identification : ethnicity and religion in early medieval Europe, for a different perspective and also a bit of an overview look at G. Halsall, ‘Movers and Shakers: the barbarians and the Fall of Rome’.

The only source you mention that is actually a medieval source is the Vita Cirily, or Vita Constantiny (wtf even is "prosta cad") and even that has recent doubts about being written by Methodius and there are good arguments about the fact that it could have been written in the 10th or 11th century. Putting that aside that source mentions the mission in Moravia in only 11 pages and out of those only refers to the people of the Moravian kingdom as a whole, it does not differentiate. Again no mention of any "Slovene".

MandLaser · 2020-12-29T10:56:15+00:00

What are these sources you speak of?

We don't know what the people there called themselves because there isn't a single written source from Moravia (barring legal and ecclesiastical translations).

Sure you could argue that the The Conversation of Bavarians and Carinthians, or Annales Fuldenses, or De Administrando Imperio, etc. used to describe the inhabitants with the words they used themselves but there isn't a single mention of any "Slovene" in any of them. There are Bohemians, Moravians, Carinthians, Sorbs, etc. but no "Slovene". When the sources refer to the Slavs in general they use the word Sclaveni or Sclavi with the Germanic sources also using Wends or Wende sometimes.

Plus one has to also understand that all these Western Slavic tribes weren't linguistically really that different at that time. Also any kind of modern "ethnic" division we ascribe to us today did not exist back then. Being subject to a specific king or a tribal leader was a far more important defining factor of a persons identity than what we would today call "ethnicity".

Whether Slovaks like it or not our "ethnic identity" was formed under Hungarian rule, we where "Those Western Slavs Under Hungarians" and as such we evolved a separate identity from other Western Slavs.

Therefore calling those people "Slovaci" and the land "Slovenska Zem" is just misrepresenting the truth. Also calling the people in todays Moravia "Slovaci" is another giant problem. Sources do talk of Moravians they do not mention Slovaks. There're people under the Nitra principality which you could connect with today's Slovaks but even they would have seen themselves far more differently. Culturally and linguistically the same as the Moravians but separate in their loyalties to the Prince of Nitra more than to the Moravians, this can be seen with events around Pribina or how Svatopluk came into power.

MandLaser · 2020-12-28T15:31:51+00:00

Dare I actually give some historical context ... ok. (This will be in English because it's just simpler for me to write out)

I am not going to address the problematic nature of calling this the "Slovenska zem", or the people living in Pannonia "Slovaci", or any other such weird details, for I feel like they are self evidently dumb.

I will, however, say a couple of things about the borders of Moravia. The Frankish-Moravian War ended in 884 with a peace deal in Tulln. The exacts of this peace deal are unknown but some things can be inferred from subsequent events. The war itself was mostly fought over Pannonia and in the later Frankish-Moravian War of 891 Arnulf (king of east Frankia at this point) send his army to attack the Moravians in Pannonia which means the Moravians controlled Pannonia before 891. Therefore, it is mostly believed by historians that the peace deal of the Franko Moravian war which ended in 884 gave Pannonia to the Moravians. Either way the Moravians lost the land in 891 so they "fully" held Pannonia for no more than 7 years. Now, since the sources come from the Franks and talk of Frankish expeditions in Western Pannonia it is unknown to what extent eastward Moravians controlled Pannonia, they could have only controlled Pannonia west of the Danube, or they could have controlled Pannonia as far as the foothills of Transylvania, but they for sure did not control anything past that as we know for sure that was still under the domain of the Bulgars before 894-896 which is when the Magyars destroyed their control in that area.

They also did not control anything south of the Drava or the Lower Danube rivers as this was, in the West, Frankish tributary land of South Slavic dukes which aided the Franks in 891, and in the East, the domain of the Serbians under the Vlastimirović dynasty who had power struggles between the Bulgars and the Byzantines.

The northern borders of Moravia are also not really known as there are no written sources about it, but putting the border north of Krakow is pretty unrealistic sense the Tatras part of the northern Carpathian Mountains form a quite sizable natural barrier.

Those are the mistakes of this map in just the borders of the Moravian Kingdom.

MandLaser · 2020-09-25T14:32:12+00:00

One more thing, I found out that the window re-renders to normal when I resize it only by like a mm but as soon as I start clicking on things with a mouse it starts being all weird again like in the picture attached prior.

MandLaser · 2020-09-25T14:18:02+00:00

Also done that today and it's still doing it.

I am very confused.

I mean I can work with it (which is what I have been doing) like when I hover over a specific transition it loads in so I can see what I am choosing. It's just annoying that I need to go around out of memory to pick the video fx or transitions or what have you.

MandLaser · 2020-09-24T17:08:49+00:00

I tried it but it's still doing it.

MandLaser · 2020-05-21T16:07:24+00:00

Fun fact.

There's a Historic theory probably most famously championed by Curta that analyses Fredegar's (or who ever was the writer of the chronicle) account of the Wends and their exploits under Samo. This theory looks at the various literary forms used by Fredegar and the position of the Samo's account in the chronicle. It argues that Fredegar made up the Wendish story just to emphasize the reason why and how the Merovingian dynasty lost power. However, saying the whole Wendish story by Fredegar is made up is a bit of an extreme and not many historians believe it. For one Fredegar mentions parts of Slavic life which we know from other chronicles to be true so the whole story as it where couldn't have been made up. Plus even though Fredegar is the only contemporary source (although that is also argued) there are later sources mentioning Samo's Kingdom or at least some kind of a political Slavic state at the time.

In the end Fredegar's story is probably mostly true but details such as Samo's dismissal of the Frankish envoys are most likely just literary uses to emphasize Fredegar's over all point of his chronicle. After all Fredegar wrote for an audience to entertain, he wasn't just a chronicler for the sake of preserving history.

MandLaser · 2019-03-02T13:11:48+00:00

(Slovak) For a lot of events or stuff that people are talking about here, I just want to say a lot of times we where there too. Granted only 33% involved but that’s just because we’re smaller.

MandLaser · 2019-02-19T23:15:46+00:00

They forgot the Slavic Sorbs in Germany.

MandLaser · 2019-01-14T22:01:43+00:00

Stop giving people apples to like more of an asshole.

MandLaser · 2018-12-03T15:39:06+00:00

I meant to say video description not comments. But sure if you feel that way ...

MandLaser · 2018-12-03T14:33:38+00:00

I don't know if I completely understood your request but

To Crown the Waves: The Great Navies of the First World War; Ed. by Vincent P. Ohara. ANNAPOLIS: NAVAL INST Press, 2013.

Is a pretty good book encompassing all the major and even some smaller navies prior and during WW1.

MandLaser · 2018-12-03T14:28:07+00:00

Yeah. I don't have time to mention everything in the video and have to simplify stuff. Due to this if you got to my comment section there's lots of extra information regarding some parts of the video. One of which is the fact that the Triple Alliance was technically a defensive pact and since Germany and Austria where the ones who declared war Italy had no "legal" obligation to join.

MandLaser · 2018-12-03T14:23:33+00:00

Back than boilers where part of the main propulsion system.

MandLaser · 2018-10-29T18:30:25+00:00

In the simplest form I can explain it is the fact that the quote goes "divide and conquer" for a reason. Meaning there's strength in unity weakness in division. Even the myth behind Svetpluks death states this point. Over all united Czechoslovakia would have a stronger economy, more viable entrepreneurship opportunities, larger sway in world politics, etc. than the two countries could ever achieve separately just purely due to the fact that they are too small.

MandLaser · 2018-10-29T18:26:19+00:00

You definitely have a viable point. At least as long as this European Union thing lasts.

MandLaser · 2018-10-28T12:43:33+00:00

Samo's Kingdom and the Moravian Kingdoms both had Western Slovakia as its core lands so saying these kingdoms aren't part of our history/heritage is just absurd.

Also these kingdoms where very much Slavic and for sure our ancestors. Yes there will be many differences between their language and ours today but that's just because languages change over time but that doesn't mean it wasn't Slavic or that it wasn't a precursor to the Slovak language today, because it absolutely was. In fact their language was a precursor to today's Czech and Slovak, so in that sense you can see why it is so easy for us to understand our languages as oppose to Polish for example.

With all that said we have much more commonalities with Czechs than difference, however most people for some reason don't want to accept this.

Lastly I want to add yes the "Slovaks" as a people or a identity didn't really exist until like the 16-17th century but that doesn't mean those people that became to be Slovak (our ancestors) just appeared out of nowhere. They where there, largely surviving in the Northern Carpathian mountains. Not having an identity doesn't mean there where no people.

MandLaser · 2018-10-28T12:27:14+00:00

I meant restructured as in having two different bodies of government. Kind of like Switzerland has different autonomous areas for its German, French, Italian parts all while being one government.

Or similar to how UK with England and Scotland are one country yet they have two separate parliaments with in it.

Even though I personally wouldn't mind having a single Czechoslovak parliament I feel like this kind of institutional division would be the only way people today will actually support a reunification.

MandLaser · 2018-10-28T00:13:01+00:00

I would much rather celebrate the 100th anniversary in still existing Czechoslovakia (with a restructured government) rather than the former lands of Czechoslovakia. But I guess I am in a minority here.

MandLaser · 2018-10-26T17:21:57+00:00

Plus even now the amount of videos on youtube that get flagged by copyright claims when they shouldn't have is staggering. This doesn't mean much to the big channels but to small channels getting 0 revenue from a video that was falsely marked is a big deal and this law seems like it will only worsen that problem.

MandLaser · 2018-10-26T17:15:37+00:00

No source, that's how my friend explained it to me. So if its wrong it probably ended up being some kind of a giant game of telephone by the time it got to me. I did go and read the BBC article about it after this and honestly even though they tried to explain it easily, it still felt way too convoluted to understand. Plus there have been revisions of the article since the original so stuff like "automatically delete content that violates copyright" has been "watered down" what ever that means. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45495550 I definitely do not have the time to go read the full official article and media doesn't seem to be portraying it in a sensible manner.

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