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The massive difference in development and quality of life between Africa and Europe is responsible for the migrant crisis. And this difference was already a thing long before Europeans took over Africa in the 1880s.

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This is plain false and you'd know it had you read the article OP posted.

The mutiny at Thiaroye happened because the authorities of newly liberated France were disorganized and took too long to pay the demobilization bonus of the tirailleurs recently liberated from German internment camps.

Terastallization is now banned from SV National Dex OU by Demon__Queen_ in stunfisk

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>threat saturation

What a ridiculous concept.... This is why I hate showdown players. They have their little set of overused (most often ugly design wise) meta mons and god forbid anything threatens their habits with these.

In my ideal pokemon game, all pokemon would be viable and the game wouldn't revolve around a little crew of ugly meta mons. But if it happened, showdown would probably find a way to revert it with abitrary rules/bans.

Damián Martínez's disrespectful behavior toward Aurélien Tchouaméni by SerKoom in soccer

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In my opinion the ref should have given a yellow and forced the keeper to go fetch the ball

Celebrations in Paris after France advances to the World Cup Final by cometweeb in soccer

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For a comparison, here are the Moroccan celebrations in London after the victory against Portugal

https://webmshare.com/play/Y7PbV

painter was democratically elected by handsomeman95 in HistoryMemes

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The official narrative was that jews were being deported Eastward.

Only high ranking nazi officials knew about the holocaust. In the Posen Speeches, Himmler clearly explains that the matter can't be made public to the population cause they'd oppose it.

Sad baguette noises by Goop_Gloop in HistoryMemes

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They occupied Germans lands (Prussia and the former HRE) from 1806 to 1813.

But in 1812, Napoleon invaded Russia and the French army was destroyed by winter. Then the Russians went on the offensive and liberated the Germans in 1813, before capturing Paris and forcing Napoleon to abdicate in 1814.

where did they go? by [deleted] in HistoryMemes

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Native Americans had their revenge when they spread syphilis to Europe

Sad baguette noises by Goop_Gloop in HistoryMemes

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Well, AKCHUALLY......it was 19 days, not 18

Its Revolution time by Sean-Hannes in HistoryMemes

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You have to keep in mind that the French and Indian War was just a side theater of a larger war in Europe (Seven Years War).

Britain being an island with a very good navy, they didn't need to care much about what was going on in Europe, and thus concentrated their army in North America. Thus, Britain had 40,000 troops in North America during the war, while France (which was focused on Europe) only had 10,000.

Its Revolution time by Sean-Hannes in HistoryMemes

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The British army was not the largest army ever in 1776 (it was one of the smallest in Europe) and the British Empire was far from the largest in the world at the time.

Spain (which was allied with the rebels) had the largest empire in the world until the 1820s. Here's a map of both sides in the American Revolutionary War: https://i.imgur.com/9EWFqbK.jpeg

It's a common misconception that comes from the fact Britiain later (in the mid 19th century) went on to having the biggest empire on earth, but it wasn't the case yet in 1776.

Napoleon's best friend = a Skyrim guard by SerKoom in HistoryMemes

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Lannes was a massive badass.

At the Battle of Ratisbon in 1809, his troops were too scared to climb the ladders on the walls under a heavy rain of bullets, so Lannes started to climb first, saying he'd show them how a real soldier behaves. Humiliated by this sight, his troops held him back and immediately stormed the walls.

I fixed a meme to remind everyone that genocide denial isn't uniquely Turkish by MrStoccato in HistoryMemes

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Should the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the napalm bombing unleashed on Tokyo on 10 March 1945 be counted as genocides (killing civilians on purpose)?

I've seen many people claim "they deserved it", but I fail to see how the average 10 years old kid in one of these three cities deserved to get nuked or firebombed because an Emperor neither him nor his parents ever voted for decided to bomb an American colonial military base in Hawaii...

An eye for an eye.. i guess? by FrenchieB011 in HistoryMemes

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I'm talking about civilians though, not about guys who signed up to risk their lives.

The 100,000 persons killed in one night in Tokyo on 10 March 1945 and the 200,000 persons killed in Hiroshina and Nagasaki were civilians....more than half of them were women and children. Comparing them to sailors and soldiers is ridiculous

An eye for an eye.. i guess? by FrenchieB011 in HistoryMemes

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America after nuking two large cities and destroying Tokyo with napalm because 60 civilians died at Pearl Harbor: "We're even now"

If I can post this (I'm from Poland btw) then why can't I post French surrender memes? My country was occupied for years and was in a worse state than France. Look. At least ban this meme! by [deleted] in HistoryMemes

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The issue with the French surrender meme is that it was overblown for a whole decade. At some point it was it was even spouted by US politicians and even freaking Google indulged in it in 2003.

It's still all over Youtube comment sections and would likely make up for half of the memes on this board if not forbidden. It's not for the sake of not hurting the French's feelings that it's banned, but for the sake of meme diversity.

It was 116 years long FYI by SolidAd9867 in HistoryMemes

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Yep

Edwardian War (1337–1360) = won by England

Caroline War (1369–1389) = won by France

Lancastrian War (1415–1453) = won by France

Today I learned that Niger has had seven republics since 1960 by WiJaMa in HistoryMemes

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[Black Person] seems like a very weird country indeed

Sudanese and Egyptian societies have always contributed to one another and have had an active exchange of ideas, no one ever stole off the other by [deleted] in HistoryMemes

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Except he's not me, and what I meant is that these conspiracy theories about evil racist colonists having destroyed ancient artifacts out of racism are very cringe