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What did your grandparents tell you about life during the Second World War?
>>1101753
Germans were relatively polite
Everybody listened to the BBC broadcast behind closed curtains
Nobody really knew what happened
Policemen were taken to camps, so great grandfather, who was a volunteer fireman, got enlisted as policeman. Grandma still has his lead-center-leather-covered baton.
When they were liberated, US soldiers gave the children gum and chocolate.
>>1101753
My grandmother, upon learning I was dating an American guy, revealed to me that she was sleeping with an American bomber pilot when she was 14 or 15.
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How could 60s counter culture even start when America had just saved the world, given rights to blacks, and had gone through the 50s, the pinnacle decade of Western civilisation?
Does this show that people desire something to complain about?
>>1098410
Communist subversion.
>>1098410
>given blacks rights
sure the right to the hose
>>1098410
>mai golden age ruined by hippies
If you are going to discuss history throw off the ideological goggles if you want anyone to take you seriously.
The average person reveals their stupidity and fear when they criticize modern art as being "meaningless" or a "trick." They fear the unknown, that's obvious, but also, it's a total lack of vernacular and ability to understand anything about what you're seeing. If I told you pic related is one of the finest paintings of the 20th century, what would you say? You have no ability to understand what you're seeing on any real level unless you're an art major. But, take a subject like astrophysics, and even if you don't really understand...
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4chan fucked up the picture
>>1110447
>What do you see?
ur mum
What the fuck is even going on. http://www.moma.org/collection/works/80385 here's the link just look at the fucking painting
>>1106086
Generous donations from ashamed oppressors who wanted their money to contribute to a just world of beautiful workers, obviously.
I don't remember where I heard it, but I once saw someone claim that it was to get back at the Whites who defaulted on a number of their debts.
>>1106107
Which explains the massive workers' exodus toward the USSR.
so how the fuck is this a good method of executing someone? doesnt that shit hurt as hell?
why didnt we stick to good ol guillotine?
That's actually kind of an interesting question.
Well obviously the guillotine was never used in practice in America, but the transition from hangings to electrocutions is something I'd like to know more about.
If I had to hazard a guess I'd say it's because public executions were beginning to be seen as...uncouth or distasteful. Electrocutions could be done in a small private areas housed within the prison itself and it also had the upside of not mutilating the body so that it could be returned to a family for burial.
>>1104908
> Electrocutions could be done in a small private areas housed within the prison itself
well a guillotine doesnt need that much space either and people hang themselves inside all the time...
> upside of not mutilating the body
sure? always thought it would leave some burns on the body
>>1104908
Just because the electric chair is a newer form of execution than hanging doesn't make it more humane. The electric chair was used as a propaganda piece by the proponents of direct current to show the danger of alternating current. Electrocution can be easily botched and there's no reason to believe that even a properly conducted electrocution is less painful than long drop hanging.
There are witnesses to the execution by members of the public and the media, so it's not really that private.
What the fuck was his problem?
leave him alone
he tried his best
>>1100283
>"Wow, some crazy troll broke everything and left everyone feeling like shit. Guess I'll try and fix it! Oh shit I made everything worse!"
>>1100441
Not OP obviously but Carter was horrible.
>Castro opens up jails and releases hordes of actual rapists, murderers and thieves to the US
>Cuckter goes full #refugeeswelcome
>in half a year the crime in southern Florida skyrockets to third world levels
He was literally retarded (inb4 muh STEM). I'm not even getting to the entire Iran fuckup, unemployment, deficit spending and stagflation. He's the...
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Why was leftism repressed in the US more successful than in Europe?
>>1099272
The instability of the post-WWII period needed strong government.
>>1099272
>Why was leftism<?> more successfully repressed in the United States than in Europe?
Fixed that for you.
What's leftism by the way?
>>1099276
Post-WW1 repressions were more violent and severe
Who was better: Templars, Hospitallers, or Teutons?
Hospitallers purely due to them surviving into the modern era as a Catholic order.
Teutons. They killed dirty Slavs.
Templars were the most powerful and got shit done for the Crusade. They only have one notable screw up. When their commander in the holy lands pressed for an immediate attack. Instead of resting the men, getting more water and supplies, and getting better intel on the Sarcens armies.
French King and the Pope screwed them and the Crusades over some debts and threat to papal power.
I've been struggling to find films with good historical battles.
Please suggest some. It can be from any period. No fantasy or horribly historically inaccurate films.
I have the following movies in my folder, some less historical than others
300 (1 & 2)
Alexander
Ben Hur
Centurion
Dacii
Gladiator
The 300 Spartans
The Eagle
The Egyptian
Troy
Arn the Knight Templar (1 & 2)
Brave Heart
Flesh and Blood
Henry V
Iron Clad
Kingdom of heaven Directors cut
Robin Hood
Valhalla Rising
Master and Commander
Last Samurai
The Patriot
Come and See
Downfall
Enemy at the Gates
Fury
Letters from Iwo Jima
Saving Private Ryan
Valkyrie
>>1103014
>IronClad
That shit is as inaccurate as possible but holy shit it is so over the top its fun. gif related.
If you don't mind TV series then Rome is pretty accurate.
>>1103014
For TV shows
Band of Brothers
Generation War
Vikings
Rome (as mentioned earlier)
Spartacus
I, Claudius (no battles though)
Does /his/ like to talk about Serial Killers?
>>1099866
Apparently not.
Like many angsty teenagers, I used to have a thing for learning about serial killers. Gacy was always the one to disturb me the most
Cossacks were the most awesome Slavic group/society, yet I rarely see them mentioned.
Let's discuss Cossacks!
>>1110840
I don't know much but from what I've read it's like they were the designated pogrom-committers
>>1110840
they were god-tier combined with polish hussars.
>>1110840
Well discuss them then you faggot
don't just say they are cool and expect us to explain why
What did northern European peasants do all winter?
>>1108291
They probably still had work to do other than farming. Hunting, tending to domesticated animals, doing repairs, going to church etc.
