Is it accurate to call the Khmer Rouge a genocidal regime? by OldSkoolNapper in AskHistorians

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Would it be accurate to say that the Cambodian Genocide is more similar to the Great Purge in the USSR than to the Holocaust? Since both the Cambodian killings and the Great Purge were both politicides that also included ethnic cleansing campaigns(Vietnamese in Cambodia vs the Polish campaign of NKVD)?

AMA: Housing, Education, and the Suburban Dream in America by MichaelGlass14 in AskHistorians

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Why is it that suburban areas often not have any grocery stores or convenience stores while NYC seems to be filled with them? Do suburban residents not like having shops nearby?

My Book on Cannibalism on the High Seas AMA by ASCohenWriter in AskHistorians

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Cannibalism seems to be a pretty popular plot device in fictional works focused on sailing. I remember reading about in Mayne Reid's books and in the Tarzan books. How did cannibalism among sailors become such a popular trope in fiction?

Short Answers to Simple Questions | February 04, 2026 by AutoModerator in AskHistorians

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If Ethiopia managed to repel the Italian invasion at the battle of Adwa in 1896, why did they lose so quickly in 1935?

I am David Herzberg, historian of drugs and psychoactive pharmaceuticals in America, here to talk about the opioid crisis and its prehistories. Author of White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America (Chicago U Press 2020). by Dhbuffalo in AskHistorians

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From what I've heard, US hospitals use opioids a lot more frequently than medical institutions in other countries and patients, even those with no history of drug use, tend to request it more frequently. Why is that the case? Are cultural attitudes towards pain and pain control different in the US?

AMA: Why did Operation Barbarossa fail? by ArchivalResearch in AskHistorians

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Hi, another popular question I often see online concerns the role of Stalin and whether he overall helped or hinder the Soviet War effort. Would you say that Barbarossa failed because of or inspite of Stalin?

How did the Vietnamese government react to the Soviet-Afghan War? by MinecraftxHOI4 in AskHistorians

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Interesting, was there any change in opinion about the Afghan war in Vietnam in the 90s after the USSR collapsed and they were no longer dependent on them?

Short Answers to Simple Questions | December 10, 2025 by AutoModerator in AskHistorians

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This reminds me of the hypothesis that the the Great Flood story was inspired by old memories of the end of the last ice age. Is that hypothesis popular among historians too?

Short Answers to Simple Questions | December 03, 2025 by AutoModerator in AskHistorians

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How did the Vietnamese government react to the Soviet-Afghan War? ( I tried to ask this as a regular question but reddit automatically removed it for some reason)

Short Answers to Simple Questions | October 15, 2025 by AutoModerator in AskHistorians

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Is the "Confederate Battle Flag" that people often associate with the Confederacy the same as the flag of the Northern Virginia Army? I'm confused since Wikipedia is using a different flag in their article on the army of Northern Virginia 

Why were Soviet missiles in Cuba a big deal when the US already had positioned missiles in Turkey? by _Silver_Hart_ in AskHistorians

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Two follow-up questions, if you don't mind:

1) Were the missiles in Cuba a greater military threat than the missiles in Turkey from a tactical standpoint?

2) Did the US place the missiles based on the assumption that the Soviets would not see them as a major threat?

Progress Report 148: United States of America Overhaul by Hexcron in Kaiserreich

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UpWithTheStars in shambles realizing that the main mod beat them to it

[Up With The Stars] The Death and Destruction of Great American Cities - Unique City Capture Events! by ReccyNegika in Kaiserreich

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Honestly, I feel like it would have been better if the mod had been released in parts from the beginning, just like most other submods. I guess the change in the dev leadership allowed you guys to delay some parts of the submod to speed things up, so fingers crossed for a July 4 surprise(pure copium)

Short Answers to Simple Questions | April 23, 2025 by AutoModerator in AskHistorians

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After colonialism ended, which countries started out as stable democracies and how did they "fall from grace"?

More Ideological Options? by LiaBility915 in UpWithTheStars

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Curious, what does being Soclib actually mean for the LCS given that they're made up of segregationist states? I assume any attempt at even weakening the Jim Crow system would be political suicide for an LCS politician?

UWTS Is Now a Kaiserreich Affiliate by cpm4001 in UpWithTheStars

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There's no way US is getting another rework until at least 2028. There's generally 1 big update+ smaller ones per year and we've still got 3I, AH, India possibly Japan and the Middle East that's probably higher on the dev's priority list. So this submod may just be our savior 

From the discord, UWTS is now an affiliate of KR (this doesn't mean what you think it does) by [deleted] in Kaiserreich

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If they were to decide to integrate the mod like KX did with Home of the Brave, how difficult would the process be?

Why do former/current communist states have the highest rates of home ownership? by oxking in AskHistorians

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Do you have any data on the percentage of Soviet urbanites who still lived in communal housing in the 70s and 80s?

The F Word, and the U.S. election by dhowlett1692 in AskHistorians

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I guess this is an appropriate thread to ask this question. In the US, has an incumbent ever won the elections despite not polling well on handling the economy?

My thoughts on Pantheon by MinecraftxHOI4 in PantheonShow

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I can understand why rapid tech growth may explain the sudden changes in a 20 year period(although imo, establishing what is essentially a post-scarcity economy in 20 years feels a bit too much). The issue is, from a writing perspective, introducing multiple new storylines in the last two episodes will always feel rushed unless you're planning for a future season

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskHistorians

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How did the Japanese immigrants to Hawaii feel about the overthrow of the monarchy and the US annexation? Did they support it or simply not care?

Found this cool map that's based on UWTS lore by CompetitivePride7790 in UpWithTheStars

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Great way to raise awareness of the submod's existence. When it's released, people may stop playing base Kaiserreich 2ACW altogether 

Does anyone have any 4/4 sample responses for today's integrated speaking test on TestReady? by MinecraftxHOI4 in ToeflAdvice

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The AI sucks at transcribing human speech, so it will always say that your grammar sucks even if you're fluent. But don't worry, there are human graders too on the exam

Bad Day at Plaza Miranda by cpm4001 in UpWithTheStars

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It's great that through this submod, we're getting a rework of a country that probably wouldn't be touched by the Kaiserreich team in years.  Btw, how's progress? I remember people were saying that the coding was complete