mine was working at a coal mine in Tennessee on the trains as a coupling boy at 12.
Don't know about Peruvian side and don't know about white side's childhood, but he did own a laundry mat in Chicago.
My grandfather was in korea as well with his 11 siblings
He and his brother were the only ones that returned.
>>79016014
He was an actor. He appeared as a Klansman in the Birth of a Nation.
>>79016014
He lied about his age and enlisted in the army at 16 in 1941 and fought nips.
>>79016014
Mine got to see all his brothers die at verdun then get excluded from battlefield 1 because he was French and he wasn't a nigger.
>>79016540
Oh shit, read that as grandfather.
I don't know. One got shot on the western front, not sure what battle.
>>79016392
>>79016540
This board could be interesting. Although they're not your great grandparents, it's still cool to see, lie or not. I'll post a picture of my great granddad and one of his laundry mat slips (the place itself is gone now however).
>>79016014
He was a banker and lived a relatively comfy life.
>>79016014
Went to fight for the austro-hungarian empire in ww1. He was asigned to the russian front. In 1917 he got captured by the ruskies and was deported to siberia where he had to build the trans-siberian railway. A few years after there was a revolt in the gulag and he managed to flee. He walked all the way from the middle of siberia back home just to be sent into a fascist prison in year 1919 because he was Slovene. Luckely he threw a few pieces of paper on the floor over the jail window (it was a jail in the middle of a city) and an aquaintance of his found it while walking on that street. He then managed to somehow convince the local fascist police to let my great grandpa go. G-grandpa returned home to his wife and they lived almost happily ever after.
>>79016014
My great grandfather was on the boat to America during the early 1900s, according to my dad, he was a Slovak who lived in the Austria-Hungary empire, lost a farm to a bunch of jews and left the nation. Came here, signed up for the U.S army as quickly as he could, fought in the first world war, came back alive, taught his son three things. Be american, Learn american Culture, speak Slovak only in the house. Learn English. My grandfather then went and joined the U.S Navy where he fought in Midway, and the rest of the Pacific theater.
just poor dirt farmers in albania
serbs came in and genocided his village
>>79016303
>>79016777
I meant Colorado, not Chicago
He worked as an engineer for some company, my grandma was the first person in her town in upstate New York who had a freezer
Also she tried out some of the first instant powdered drinks and margarine that got brought home
Pretty lucky I think
>>79016014
He had it pretty gud desu, he was a tobacconist in Londonistan, and later was involved in politics, don't know much more about him.
>>79016014
Mine was a proud member of the Wehrmacht who died honorably defending Magdeburg from the commie scum.
May he rest in heaven
>>79017047
>serbs came in and genocided his village
they didn't the job unfortunately
>>79016014
Was a politician in the DR, sought political asylum because his enemies tried to kill him.
My great great granddad was a carpenter and died poor in a house with 3 other families
My great granddad was a painter by profession and died because of the hazardous chemicals used by painters at the time, in a house with 1 family of 8 people
My granddad was a painter as well but he avoided coming into contact with the chemicals directly and still lives
>>79016674
Not my great grandfather this time, but a relative around WW1 actually joined the American forces then and something happened to where his lungs got damaged and he died because of it. As far as I know, he didn't fight, and was a part of supply transportation via train, but maybe the train got gassed dropped on or he passed a place where it had been gassed or something. Not really sure what could have happened other than it being an infection, but he apparently died a year or few months later or so because of the lung damage.
>>79016777
My great grandad was a Polish soldier in WW2, killed a nip and took his sword. I'll look for pics.
>>79018189
Cool, get as soon as possible. I want to see it.
>>79018189
My white grandmother's uncle fought in the pacific theater and lost his trigger finger, but that sounds like it was more of a gun malfunction over anything else.
>>79016014
your grandfather, did he happen have a copper mine as well?
>>79016014
Apparently my great grandpa on mothers side was a wealthy tycoon back in china. He had the exclusive righs to distribute kerosene in his part of the country.
>>79018461
>>79018622
Can't find them, however, I will be seeing his son in July. I'll make a thread titled "Memorabilia thread" or something like that, and will post pics. If you don't see it, just check the archives in a few weeks.
Did Japanese soldiers still commit suicide instead of getting taken prisoner during WW2?
>>79018871
>He had the exclusive righs to distribute kerosene in his part of the country.
So, rent extraction (charging extra without providing added value)?
>>79016014
No idea. Probably died in some war
My grandfather was a poor factory worker who died young.
Mine lived in Oklahoma and pic related to go somewhere that wasn't a cotton farm
>>79016014
Mine fought against the Nazis, he was captured and held at Belsen but survived, when he got home he lost his leg in a factory press accident, he worked from a really young age, smoke and drank excessively but still managed to make it to 86.
>>79016014
Three of my great grandfathers fought at the Battle of the Somme and the only reason the 4th one didn't was because he was manning a trench in Ypres instead.
I am the Eternal Anglo.
>>79018946
Basically.
My grandad (his son) ended up being a spoiled rich mans son. He got sent to the straits because he kept chasing too much pussy apparently.
The irony is my grandad ended up escaping the commies as a result
>>79016014
farmers in macedonia on one side, shekel merchants in germany on the other. poor afaik but grandkids got rich.
>>79016014
Served as an officer in WW2.When they were executing the Nazis, some officer tried to bribe him with with a watch ,which he gladly accepted.They executed him nevertheless. Now my family holds a watch with a swastika on it .I would wear it in public ,if I wanted to get lynched that is .
>>79016014
Sole survivor out of six kids. Lived to be 93, though.
>>79018889
No no, I'm on exchange. I'm a filthy half Peruvian half white foreigner in Japan.
Anyway, I would think so. If you research it many would kill themselves with grenades and crap or go out trying to kill the enemy usually. I'm interested in the Japanese who surrendered peacefully and lived to tell about it over the brainwashed ones who killed themselves. Read something about reports of treatment from American's being not as bad as the emperor had made it out (obviously).
Didi your grandfather ever think of finding the family again to give back the sword? I'm not saying you should, but I know that sort of thing would make it in a local news story.
When did the Polish encounter the Japanese? I'm not too informed on WW2 other than what's generally known.
>>79016014
Mine left his family farm (heir to the property) after a troubled childhood to emigrate to the states, got a job building bridges in Chicago and set up a decent life for his son. He eventually went insane, just as my grandfather is going insane and my dad is probably up to bat soon
>>79018889
>>79019332
I mean if your family thought about returning it.
>>79016014
Mine fought against the British in North Africa with the Italian Royal Army.
Taken POW and moved his family to Britain after he was released.
I know that my great grandfather on my fathers side was a farmer who was drafted into for WW2 and served in Macedonia as a anti air. US was bombing Sofia at the time and most noteably he managed to get down one Bomber before they had to retreat to a bunker because of the escorting fighter planes who unleashed hell. He survived the war.
>>79016014
Both my greatgrandpraents in my mother side was killed when Mao took power during culture revolution for being rich carpenters. My grandmother and her sister( both are 5 or 6 years old)survived when one of my greatgrandparent's servant decided to raised them as his own children and moved from capital of the province to a rural town working as a peasant. Due to the servant's kindness, My grandmother and her sister were raised and avoided the fate of being terminated for being "offsprings of right winger".I cry every time thinking about it. My great-grandmother in my father side was a refugee from Korea due to Nippon invasion. She then married my great-grandfather a Chinese peasant .
Small plot farmer in Indiana, ate almost nothing each day through the depression so my great uncles and grandma could have food. WW2 Army veteran. Stayed on his farm until he passed 2 years ago. Showed me how to nurse calves, drive a tractor, and hunt for wild mushrooms. Always genuinely excited to see and hear from family, letter from him every birthday. If I can be half as good I'll count my life a success.
>>79016014
I don't know, my gramp from my mother's side died before I was born.
I only know I have 13 aunts and one uncle, my grandpa had a farm where he and my uncle worked the land to provide for my mother and aunts.
Don't know anyone on my father's said since he died before I was born.
one great-grandfather fought in the Czar's army
another one build a bunker for his family and weathered the shelling during WWII
One on my mum's side died after 3 days of suffering shrapnel injuries when he and some other dudes got caught in the crossfire between the Reds and the Germans
the other one on mum's side was some sort of tinkerer or some shit and helped the Legion with fixing their gear and shit
>tfw one of my great grandfathers was named Adolph
He was a farmer from Kansas, though.
My great grandmother was prisoner in gulag.
My great grandfather was guard in gulag.
>>79016014
Died in a Soviet Gulag for being Wolgagermans.
My great grampa fought against the nazis. Actually got to Berlin.
Had is head all fucked up due an explosion, but kept going the madman.
Fun fact, they started raping all the girls in Berlin. ( He didn't, but that's his words. ).
And yeah, in case you are wondering, he was ukrainian.
mom's side built airplanes for the war because he was 4H. dad's probably plotted on how best to hop the border while white guys were distracted with the war.
>>79016014
Soldier in Germany, all his life. lived somewhat long too. didnt fall in combat.
>>79024588
Adolf was such a common name back then.
my great grandfather from my mother's side fought in WW2, at some point he was a partisan and led his own unit (I'm russian, not lithuanian)
he was executed by the nazis
one Great Grandfather died in WW2 after kamikaze-ing 3 times into US-Bombers, running back to the airport and getting a new plane the first two times
(his wife) Great Grandmother died 4 years later by having rubble fall on her lol
another great grandmother lived till she was 98 and told all the stories, sadly not to me cause i was only 3 when she died
the others i dont know probably died earlier or got lost/ran away
fathers side
>great grandfather was in the Hellenic resistance during nazi occupation in WW2
>watched his family and friends die at the Massacre of Kalavryta
>someone snitched out his immediate family and they were murdered
>went to the U.S. after war, no one gave him a job, his name can be found at Ellis Island
>came to Australia to begin anew
mother
>Irish worker
>took care of his family and moved to Australia
Here I am
Fuck the east and fuck the west, no one helped my families and they were good, hard working people. I just want this country to take care of it's own people and give me the opportunity to leave it better than when I came into this world.
>>79016014
My grandparents, and my dad and uncle - spent 15 years in a concentration camp in Siberia. Slave labour basically.
My fathers side in Finland were literal nobodies living in da woods. Had 8 children. Tough life in other words.
My mothers side, grandpa was a General in Egypt. Shame he died before I even got to meet him.
My grandma was a teacher if I remember right. So they were doing pretty well.
>Mormon
>Mormon
>Mormon
>Mormon
>Too old for WWII, undertaker in Chicago
>Undertaker's wife
>Fleeing Latvia
>Fleeing Latvia
There you go, all eight of them.
>>79016014
idk about my granddad but my grandma got it bad.
She would sneak out of the house to go to school and study in school where Americans taught.
Her mom, a devout catholic, will literally pull her out of the class and say
>WOMEN ARE NOT MEANT TO HAVE EDUCATION.
My grandmother was a clever kid though, she kept sneaking out till she learned how to write and do math. She never finished school though. She worked in the farm and had to tend to her dad and her brothers which were guerrillas.
all of her brothers and her dad died in ww2
>>79016014
Mine was a rat catcher.
He used to roll his cart about full of poisons with dead rats hanging off the side, lit by an oil lantern.
>tfw I'm a test analyst for a pension company
Based progenitor for working as hard as he did to allow our family to become middle class.
>>79016014
Oh great grandparents, how I wish I knew ye.
>>79016014
Farmer that got Dust Bowl'd and went west to get subsidized housing.
>>79017904
>My granddad was a painter as well but he avoided coming into contact with the chemicals directly and still lives
ah nice story
he still has his ear i presume? he didn't gogh full Vincent
>>79016014
highest military award in Latvia for killing soviets in ww1
>>79016014
sent to a gulag for being anti communist
>>79028414
>(his wife) Great Grandmother died 4 years later by having rubble fall on her lol
cunt laughing at old woman dying via debris fall.
i hope a refugee falls on your face, or sits or shits if you like scat
>>79016014
Mine was allegedly a gunslinger who shot his dad, the sheriff (he was the depute) for being crooked, burnt town records. Fled and made the last name sound more Irish.
He told my grandfather on his death bed he did some bad things but didn't specify.
My grandfather on the OTHER side of the family did the research after hearing that, so it's not confirmed, but likely.
>>79016014
Both fought and died in the war, I don't know much more about them, hated the russians and communism.
Grandfathers:
Worked in a railyard all his life after taking too many body shots boxing and having to stop because of damaged kidneys. Died a few years after my grandmother after selling his family house to give the money to my good for nothing father who refused to return back home to bury either of them.
Other one worked on a farm his whole life, fell of a tractor and broke his leg in his 60s, died shortly after. My good for nothing mother refused to return back home to bury him instead cheated her brother out of his inheritance and sold most of the family land for a quick profit.
I wonder why my parents moved 13,000km away from their parents and then later divorced. Gee I wonder.
No fucking idea because I don't know most of my family or its history.
My great great uncle (so my grandmothers's uncle) was a radio man in Manchuria in the IJA who got sent home after a mine went off nearby some rail tracks and almost had his leg torn off by shrapnel.
Died of disease or something 20 years after the war.
>>79016014
Grandfather didn't know his parents - he worked on a farm in Virginia. Joined the military. Sent to Europe. Stormed Normandy. Lost his friends. Given purple heart. Hit by shrapnel - they even misreported his "death" to my grandmother. Went AWOL at one point. Came back an alcoholic wreck. Talked about the horrible things he'd done during the war. Couldn't sleep at night - woke up to loud noises with violent episodes. Drank himself to death. I never got to meet him.
Yeah, I'd say he had it pretty hard.
>>79016014
one was a mushroom farmer in the valleys of Lithuania, one was a snake-killer in mountains of Lithuania, one was a bartender in Sicily, and one was a berry farmer in Poland.
>farmer in Thuringia
>called up tot he war
>Battle of France all fun and games
>oh shit Soviet Russia
>sees Moscow through the looking glasses in late '41
>shrapnel hits his left shoulder in early '42
>war is over
>he goes back to farming on his own since most men are dead ir prisoners
>plowing the field with only one functioning arm and no animals since they were all eaten in winter '45
>early 50s when the farm had become profitable again it is collectivised by the commies
>be relocated to a commie block
Dude pretty much single handedly fixed up his farm despite the war wound and then had it taken away by the commies. Wasn't an easy life for him, but he got old enough to tell me his stories still.
>>79029333
Oh, Great Grandfather on the other family's side served in the Western front.
He found a dog over there and kept it in his bags and fed it scraps, nobody would rat him out for it. After the war was over he brought it back to America, but it only knew French commands for sit and come and such.
I read one of his letters to the family that was saved. History is fucking interesting.
>>79016014
He was a wrestler in Hungary then came to Aus because of Hitler doing his things. (Not Jewish)
>>79029049
Get on that ancestry.com or something. I've used my 14 day free trial to find out lots of cool shit, like that my great great great great great great grandfather was born in Massachussets in 1640 and one of his descendants fought in the Revolutionary War and married his girlfriend the day he enlisted. It's neat.
>>79016014
My gran got shot into the shoulder and the bullet went all the way up through his arm, I guess it was like giving birth to triplets.
My mom's side grandparents were children during the winter- and continuation war. My grandfather's brother died in the world war 2 when he got sniped in the eye by a russian sniper if i remember correctly.
>>79016014
Grandfather on mothers side died in WWII leaving my grandmother (a piano teacher)
Grandfather on fathers side was a train track layer and they had so many kids that they just started sending them to orphanages
Lived in the Soviet Union. Had stable factory jobs. Could afford to go on vacation every year. Got an apartment from the government.
Tell me again, how Soviet Union was terrible and tyrannical. Oh, btw my grandmother was a jew and didn't have to fear for her life unlike in the based cultured West.
WW2 Navy and 6 kids.
Still won't eat rice.
>>79016014
Mine was working the coal mine. He helped form the socialist party and improve the life of his fellow minor.
That's what piss me most when I see the fraud of the left right now, my great grand father fought for this hsit.
My grand father started in the mine too but quickly escaped it.
The mother line of my familly were rich as fuck though, but they lost everything before it even came to me
>>79029924
>The mother line of my familly were rich as fuck though, but they lost everything before it even came to me
this was almost the best part till you said none of the money ever got to you.
mother side poor farmer in some mountain
father side fought in Korea, womanized overseas, kinda poor
>fought in WW1 enlisting at 15 with half his village
>Served in Western Europe in the Anzac Maori battalion
>Only 1 of his 6 elder brothers to return
>Died poor of Spanish flu in his late 30s.
One was Italian and fought with USA in WWI, got gassed and was disabled rest of life.
Another started a bakery in Brooklyn and didn't pay mafia protection money, had 2 kids kidnapped and had to move to NJ (he got the kids back)
One had 10 kids and wife died after #10, so he put them all in a orphanage and worked odd jobs.
The last one is more of a mystery but did some kind of machine work in PA.
Some cool stories in here. Northern Irish here, grandfather guarded POWs in WW2, there was apparently a large POW camp in my town. I'm not exactly sure where he was but I remember my mum telling me he was out at sea and they couldn't have the lights on or something, maybe something about seeing enemy fire in the distance. My great uncle fought in Africa in the infantry as far as I know. Talked to my mum about it and said there was a ration book somewhere in the house
During the Blitz my gran had to run out to a forest area out of town while the Germans bombed the shit out of us with my older aunts and uncles when they were children, my grandparents were quite old and had my mother quite late so she wasn't born yet
I've tried to look them up but most WW2 record sites I've found are shitty and not free, I would pay if I knew I could find them but I think their records are limited as some WW2 records are still classified from the British army.
Where can I go to learn more about them? I wish I talked to my granda about it and my great uncle but they died when I was young and had no interest. I was a shy kid and saw my granda as a stern man even though he was friendly, used to hug me and his beard would cut the shit out of my face lol. Miss the guy
>>79016014
One was a brick layer around a steel town
One was a civil engineer
One was a farmer
I don't know about the last one (grandfather's father).
All were 1st gen immigrants.
>>79016014
No idea.
One of my grandfathers is adopted, and the other was the bastard child of some sweedish guy.
>>79016014
He died in a submarine during WW1. His last thought was probably my great gran and my gran as the water filled up to the top...
>>79016014
damn, all this white priviledge...
Worked in Berlin during ww2. Got the fuck out to netherlands before shit got worse.
Had a peaceful life afterwards
>>79016014
Chill communist farmer dude
Brought water for everyone in his village
>>79029307
>old
she was like 35 or something you idiot
>>79016014
They didn't have it too to bad. They moved to America on the heels of the Spanish influenza. They worked in a cigar factory. I don't know about my fathers side but they were in Canada doing something
>>79016014
mine was also a coal miner in tennessee, if i remember right. he was drafted into ww2 and ran communication lines across battlefields, mostly in italy.
when my grandpa asked him what the worst part of the war was, he said "the beach landings were a little tense". apparently thats all he would say about the war.
Grandpa was a part of the Ustashe, was in medical corps. When shit got down they fled to Bleiburg where most of his buddies got shot, then survived the walking trip back to Croatia where he got pulled out of a truck meant to transport them to a place where they would get shot. When he got back to Croatia he started his gravel business
>>79016014
1st: Farmer
2st: Farmer
>>79031396
that makes you more of a cunt why laugh at someone who died like that?
>>79031567
3rd: muslim?
>>79016014
My great grandfather died in WWI
>>79016014
Great grandpa was a WW2 vet and casual mobster. His wife tirelessly fed him to death. RIP Hugo, I know you're eating bacon wrapped Rocky Mountain oysters in heaven.
>>79031624
Nope, i'm not a subhuman like you :^)
>>79016014
Mines was a prisoner of war. Got released and kept a small pistol along with a letter from the queen and a small tin of tobacco that was standard to all who returned I think. Don't know much about him other than he had some illegitimate sons that I recently found out about through looking through the family tree.
My gp was a spoilt child of Lithuanian Jewish and English immigrants who came to Australia before WW2, around the early 1920s. My Jewish Great grandparents owned a cement factory in Sydney where there was a large Jewish community. Kinda sucks that my jewish Grand parent never married within the Jewish community, and now Im only 1/8th kike with none of the benefits of being part Jew. Its depressing seeing my second cousins who are half Jews live that kike life, going to elite Jewish private schools all paid by some Jewish billionaire in America. Makes me mad desu, I hate being a Goy.
poorfags from croatia
>>79031578
it doesnt cause she already had born her 4 children and was a full-on nazi like her husband
>also phillipino, probably muslim, trying to argue with no education
All of them farmers, fought in ww2 as partisans, one of them died in some famous battle at the end of the war or something.
After the war all of the stayed in their villages but their sons and daughters went to big cities all over the country, have relatives from Zagreb to Belgrade.
Literally one of the first italian people killed in WW1
>>79016014
>great grandpa wealthy farmowner
>loves birds
>grandpa shoots little bird with great grandpas rifle
>great grandpa removes grandpa from his testament, instead testaments fortune to a fund supporting the little bird's species
>this fund is today worth rougly 6 million dollars
Someone before great grandfather on my father's side was a Norwegian admiral.
I can't understand all this holocaust denial here. My great-grandfather died in Auschwitz! He fell from a guard tower.
>>79032594
Not sure if cuck
>>79016014
Italian migrants who eventually settled in Buffalo New York. They worked as farmers.
Great grandfathers
1. Farmer who abused his wife and kids. Drank himself to death.
2. Chill Glass manufacturer . Smoked to death.
I drink and smoke lol
Not sure about the other one, but one of them was a farmer.
Grandad flew in bombers last two years of WW2, lost about half his friends to flak and FW190s.
Ran two businesses after the war, saved his whole life to provide for his family.
Lost his wife of 70 years last year. Voted to leave the EU, is now berated by my sister and uncle who are trying to secure his assets now he's 94.
>>79016014
Mine was a Russian POW who met my German grandmother at a dance party open to village women that the Germans held for POWs. Even during wwII they were fucking cucks.
>>79033153
>direct descendant of Russian liberator
KEK
Mine was in jail for 20 years because he refused to give his land to commies.
>>79032345
i'm sorry you can't eat pork
>>79032899
I see you've become a modern day nostradamus
>>79016014
my greatgrandfather was the bear jew in a small ukrainian village and got his head chopped of by partisans. My grandfather had to see that shit when he was 5. Then at 14 during Holodomor my grandfather helped all his realtives to move to Uzbekistan. Later he fought at WW2 and killed a shit ton of Nazis.
Unfortunately he died when I was 11 or 12. I would give everything to listen to his stories again now...
>>79028120
So basically no one uses that name now? I'd imagine so.
>>79033949
do you know why kazakhs hate uzbekis?
>>79016014
On my mothers side. The mother died when my Grandad was like 4 and the Father became an alcoholic and none of his children drank because of it. Worked most labour work farming Fishing et cetera.
On my fathers side they lived in Dublin Middle class I believe so no tenements for them. Theres is pictures of them and they have nice clothes don't know what they worked , should probably ask
My great grandpa was a wealthy bussines man in Indonesia his landhouse was the HQ of the invading Japanese. After the war he left al if his stuff(cars,food) and land to his slaves and went back to Holland.
My other grandpa was a poor factory worker in amsterdam.
>>79016014
They had it so bad they died.Both of them.
still cry today
>>79034499
My fellow Indo
It seems there are quite a few indo posters on /pol/
>>79016014
They had it pretty good. On my father's side, one was a very successful business man whose family are now among the wealthiest in my town, while the other was a semi-famous writer and journalist. The latter one's father was a mayor who owned a successful business that functioned as a dock, an inn and a general store, which also served as the center of business for the local towns and a midway supply point for ships traveling between two of the larger cities.
On my mother's side, one was a cop, while the other one was a sailor on a supply ship who was gone for months at a time.
I have pictures of them all, going back to the 1800s, but I'd rather not post them.
Dont know anything about my grand parents let alone great grand parents
>>79034694
I'm not indo myself my grandad moved there to start up a shipping business. After the war he moved back and started a family with my grandma
>>79034694
>tfw gramps was an indo hunter for 2 years
>90% of his grandkids are indo
Huehue huehuehue hue
>>79016014
He was a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army.
My great grandpa was machinegunner during the War. Had over 40 confirmed nazies and shitload of medals. Also his coolstries was the best. Too bad he died not so long ago.
>>79016014
Great grandfather dad's side
>immigrates to Canada from England it's 1905
>Given 5 acres in southern Saskatchewan
>Gets to his land in November
>There's literally nothing for hundreds of kilometres
>Has no money, no tools, no shelter, but enough grain to barely survive the winter and a horse
>Guy the next land grant over shows up
>Has a sod hut, says he can stay the winter
>Half way through this guy freezes to death in a blizzard
>Horse is dead
>It's literally -60 with windshield
>Spring comes, he inherits dead bro's land
>Builds a farm, convinces an upper class girl from England to marry him by MAIL, becomes an MLA, has 10 kids, and outlives 3 wives
>All 3 sons fight, kill Germans, and survive ww2
>Probably because their summer job from the age of 6 was shooting and eating ground hogs so their dad could farm the land and save money
>Kicked the bucket at age 89 when he broke his hip slipping on ice and couldn't smoke in the hospital
He was actually such a boss, really wish I met him. Did his best to stop the early NDP takeover in the West. Apparently every day at four he would light his pipe and smoke until midnight. When asked to stop this habit in the eighties he said "I spent five years in the prairie without being able to afford this comfort and I shall never spend another day without"
>>79016014
My Great Grandfather died coupling trains in Missouri...I have his gold railroad watch.
>>79016014
He was a very wealthy merchant. Not even kidding.
>>79016014
One was a pilot in WWI, then joined the gommies as a cavalryman and killed anti-communist peasant rebells during the Civil War. Then he got into Red Army air force and served as major-general during WW2.
The other one was a peasant who joined the Red Army before the war. I don't know much about him, but my grandmother told me once that he was the commander of some anti-aircraft defences not far from Moscow. The anti-air guns there were mostly manned by young women, so being a Chad he swam in puss during the whole war.
>>79016014
hard graft, lot of poverty, great grandfather fought in ww1, wouldnt fight in the war of independence or civil war so had to move to england, came here to start a family with his wife and thats how my dad was born, dont actually know much about my mother's parents
Great grandfather was a bolshevik, both grandfathers were WW2 veterans fighting nazis but they're both dead, father is a drunken car builder or whatever you call it
Whole family is Jewish (Sephardic), they were all literal merchants in Spain, Portugal and the Ottoman Empire, so I don't think we ever had it bad, as in having a difficult job.
>>79016014
My great-grandfather fought in the Somme, came back after the war to find his good job replaced and had to work in a shitty factory to just about support his 10 children through WW2. Eventually died peacefully resting his eyes in his garden chair smoking his pipe after planting some vegetables.
>>79016014
Mine fought in Egypt during ww2. He was Also rich ad fuck, sadly it was an idiot too.
My great grandfather fought in the civil war. I'm 31, my dad is the youngest of 16 children. My grandfather would be over 110 years old today if he was alive. My great grandfather died over 50 years before I was born.
they fleed from russian rape soldiers in pommern
>American man Fighting on the pacific front.
>Korean fighting against the Japanese occupation.
>Jew in America.
It writes itself.
My great grandpa was the VP of a major oil and gas company so I'm pretty sure he had a 10/10 life. Died young though.
>>79016014
My grandparents were rancheros out in the Mexican desert, slaved away their whole lives and lived to be old but still strong.
I only met them twice.
>>79016014
Only one I knew about was a farrier (horse shoe smithy) that had to join the cavalry during WW2 and got killed, steamrolled by German tanks.
>>79016014
Farmer in western PA.
>>79016014
All of my great grandparents were farmers. All were second generation.
>>79040042
also he was a commie. his son (my grandfather) worked with underground communist groups during the occupation.
>>79029521
Real estate in New York his name was Fred
I think he was a sailor, didn't do much of relevance. His father was a rich peasant, he owned a grocery store in the village and got hella successful. Then came the Bolsheviks.
>>79040196
as was my father during most of his life up until the fall of the USSR. Now he's a ''''democratic socialist'''' topkek.
They were farmers in Pennsylvania. Eventually they opened a candy shop, and Hersheys bought out one of their recipes. They lived comfortably for the rest of their lives, but it wasn't generational money that was passed down. My brother still lives on the farm though and oversees thr daily activities
Dockworker in Salford. Fought in WWI, east africa. came back fucked up. Died in 1946.
>>79016014
Mine was a Native American in the US
He had it bad.
ww1 veteran on the eastern front, iron cross awarded
Mobilized during WWI, fought several huge and deadly battles on the western front, survived until the end of the conflict, return to civilian life and became an engineer, remobilized during WWII, fought until the traitor Pétain capitulated then went to the mountains in central France to escape the germans and to assure his 12 years old son to survive the war
The other one fought WWI in the german side
Mine fought in the SS
The one on my dads side actually had it pretty good. Grew up in a not-so-bad part of town, went to Korea and came home and managed a steel mill.
>>79016014
The ones I know at least
1. Worked in a coal country mine at 12, joined the navy at 14 in '35, served in both seas. Joined national guard till he was 60 lived to be 95
2. born in rural Colorado to mining engineering family. Went to Annapolis and died on a sub in the Pacific
3. PA dutch quarrymen and steel worker for Beth.Steel, fought in Europe lived to be 80
>>79016014
From my father's side he was a landowner with more than 40 children with different women's and a lot of money.
Mother side a WW1 Austrian veteran that fight in the eastern front, and came poor as fuck to Argentina in 1930
>>79017467
good one gypsy
>>79016014
Mine were rich Italians who immigrated here
>>79016014
The three I know:
>Orthodox priest, had around 10 children
>Village educator, fought in WW2, stayed for a few years as a Soviet prisoner, returned home
>Gendarme, stationed in Odessa during the Germano-Romanian occupation, when communists got in power he got arrested(so its possible he might've played a part in the Odessa massacre)
t. Romanian if it isn't obvious yet
>>79016014
Only know my Irish side, but I'll still share
Irish side was living in Dublin, great great granddad was married my grandmother but left my great granddad and his mother to raise the family and feed them so he was working pretty fucking young in 1920s Ireland. Now, I cant confirm he was there but I've been told the destruction of the family was because my great great granddad wasn't quite rught after WW1 in which he served the British Army. Great granddad's family later left and moved to Middlesex in London and lived there until WW2 broke out. He joined the REs and served the whole war, ended up in Hamburg as an occupation force member. Married my great grandmother in Germany, they moved back to London and he finished his contract in Middlesex, apparently at an Airbase close to there.
They had my grandfather in Germany before coming back to England. Wasn't until about 52-54 they were approved to come out to South Aus.
My great granddad lived here until his death in the 80s.
>>79016014
I don't really know. He was a farmer in Illinois. The only story I have is a single entry from his diary that my father still has.
October 10, 1871: Chicago burnt down
>>79016014
poverty rice farmer and refugee from china's civil unrest, came to singapore, after that he was executed by the japanese for being chinese when they invaded
>>79016014
Literally everyone in my family was simple farmers and lumberjacks etc and nothing else.
Father's side great grandfather went missing in the Winter war, allegedly in a Soviet artillery strike. His remains were never found and all the family got was a few letters and an empty coffin.
Mother's side great grandmother drowned in a river trying to save her two sons from drowning after they had fallen through the ice. One of them survived.
Her husband, a stone worker, my great grandfather started drinking as a result of the incident and died of excessive drinking a few years later.
Don't know anything about father's side great grandmother.
>>79044585
>Finn dying of excessive drinking
wow
Man /pol/ you guys seriously come from shit.
>being dogs of war
>muh simple farmer
How can you think you're superior when your grandparents never did anything of importance other than fight a war they were conscripted in.
>>79030258
Damn my great great uncle was in the Maori battalion what's his last name?
>>79016014
My great grandfather was a cattle farmer and iron worker who lived on a reservation. At one point he had the largest cattle heard in southern Ontario.
>>79045750
What else could you do int 1910s, than go to war or farm?
>>79016014
A rich banker who ended up going broke with the great recession
At least he didn't kill himself :3
>>79017047
hahahahahahahahha sqip
>>79046114
My great grandfather fought the state in the supreme court and won, and later became the vice president for one of the largest oil and gas companies in the world. He literally helped build one of the largest and most powerful industries at its infancy.
How the hell can the majority of /pol/ come from from people who have always been small?
>>79016014
One of mine was a writer, who left many written records of his life.
Another one was a math teacher and abother one was fleet commander, who died on the Eastern front 3 days before the official ending of WWII.
The family was quite large, one of the brothers of the fleet commander died in the offense in 1943, another in 1944.
The ironic shit is, on my dad's side I have German grandma from Dresden and so I probably also have a German great grandpa, who lived during the Nazi Reich. I have no info on him.
Mother's side is full of merchants, crafters and teachers, non-peasant-tier ancestry.
Dad's mixed as shit russian-tatar-german.
>>79047507
How does the average Russian define rossiyanin and russkiy? At least one russkiy grandparent on each side?
>>79046448
>how can people not be rich like me
Oh wow so your grandpa was a industrialist bourgeois dickhead. You know in other countries people killed your kind.
>>79016014
My grandfather was a coal miner in West Virginia at the age of 10.
He died 5 years ago of black lung.
>>79016014
Confederate soldiers who went to Texas and eventually settled in Oklahoma before statehood.
I'm a true southerner, a true Okie
>>79047729
It is pretty informal.
I am considered russky, because, well, I am of too typical slavic looks: light hair, slavic face with some little looks that also point to my German ancestry.
I speak Russian with Moscow accent and I have a definite slavic look, thus I am russky for I fit within the social stereotype. I am also pale and have quite a deep voice.
In GB people assumed I was either from Poland or Sweden though.
>>79016014
All of mine were all Irish immigrants expect my dads mothers father, who was a son of an Irish immigrant
>tfw still 4th Gen pure white irish
>tfw 3rd
One got conscripted as punishment for signing a peace petition in ww1, died soon after finishing engineering, every time i see someone asking me to sign anything petition wise i decline.
His brother instead was a rabid socialist and got exiled instead of shot because he managed to have friends, ended up inventing a type of pliers used even today by every steel mill. He didn't patent it because "socialism" and got mega screwed.
The other was a gun designer but ended up getting sued by Beretta so he went to help manage the construction of a dam in Sardenia and died soon after of appendicitis.
>>79016014
Grand daddy took his lunch in a metal bucket everyday doing the same thank God we live in tn we need to build a wall to keep out the fags blacks and welfare leaches. Thank you grand daddies for teaching me how to live off the land and be racist
Only know one great grandparent. He fought for Austria Hungary in ww1, then served as a train engineer in Czechoslovakia. Wound up having a heart-attack right on board the fucking train. RIP
>>79016014
mine joined the british army during ww2, deserted right before deployment, joined the irish army, deserted again and then sold turf to his comrades who still served
>>79048354
If I moved to Russia and found myself a Russian wife, would my children be considered russkiy or still just rossiyanin? I'm Orthodox Romanian with slight tatar features by the way.
>>79016014
The only one I know of was a cop in upstate New York who liked to beat up Italians.
I think mine was a shipwright in Belfast.
>>79047729
In other words, they define it by the way you look, speak and behave.
If you look slavic/european, speak Russian without foreign accent and exhibit slavface with that typical a little cold slavic behaviour, you're a russky guy 100%.
I'm not Albanian.
Great Grandpa joined royal engineers and built and maintained runways in North Africa in WW2
>>79016014
>farmers all along the st. lawrence
>loggers in the ottawa valley
>injuns grandparents were off-reserve and survived by trapping and hunting
down-home roots in this bitch.
>>79016858
>1 post by this id
1. Owned a bakery
2. Some kind of driver, fought in the finnish civil war for the communist side when he was 15 years old
3. Died in ww2
4. Alcoholic farmer
Both farmers, fought in WWII against russian invasion. Mom's side was harsh and strict, raised 13 kids. Dad's side was known to be strong as an ox, memories of him was that he was very kind and funny growing up. His funeral was the only time I've seen my dad cry.
Great men, one of the many reasons which is why I give proper respects to the elderly, excluding the boomers.
>>79048709
Alright. Thanks for clearing things up, brate. )
>>79016014
Had a farm. All 4 of them.
Great grandma lived through a couple pogroms, moved to St. Petersburg and met my great granddad who was a tailor. I guess he didn't have it too bad.
So besides the murder and rape and hiding I guess it was ok.
My grandfather was a badass apparently, was dyslexic but taught himself to read and write by 8 and eventually became a doctor.
Everyone here says that the Jews are out to get you, but all I want is a family and for people to stop giving me shit.
>>79048544
The distinction is purely informal and look-based.
It spawns from cultural and behavioural differences with typical looks and speech.
Just like you would distinguish an englishman from plain british. Same is for russky and rossiyanin
>>79016014
Great grandfather was a farmer, killed by russians when during WW2.
Grandfather fought in WW2 since he was 16 till the end of war. He drove a tank.
>>79016014
Pretty bad. Almost all of my great grandfathers and their brothers died in war(s). Two were gassed, one survived despite needing a piece of metal to cover his head (part of the skull blown away). Etc.
My grandfathers worked in the port, it was a very tough job because they needed to carry big bags of whatever in and out of the boats to load/unload them.
One of my grandfathers died early because of bad health (cancer) from the job. He had also fought in Algeria and never wanted to speak of it because of all the horrors he saw there.
>>79049004
I wonder how hard it would be to develop an authentic Russian accent. Heard that a lot of Moldovans that go to Russia still have a distinguishing accent even though they learn Russian from a very young age and some live in 100% Russophone communities.
Btw, britfags, how would you distuish a real englishman from "british" immigrant from shitstain-tier country?
One of mine was a viscount who lost his lands in the Russian Revolution. Feels bad, man.
>>79046368
you're trying too hard serv
>>79016014
My great grandparents on my maternal side were polish and my great grand mother lived through ww2 in Poland and the following soviet rule
My grandmother told me stories her mother told her of communism and the soviets
Like how they smashed up a butchers shop who sold meats without their approval
My g. Grandmother also experienced the carnage of the Katyn forest massacre firsthand according to my grandmother, she saw bodies strewn about in fields on her way to the town from where she lived
>>79016014
Maternal grandma's parents were a doctor and a nurse living in Rhode Island. During the depression they did okay because they'd take logs, potatoes, etc for their medical services when customers didn't have any money.
Paternal grandparents were well off southerners. My namesake (GGG Grandpa) was a prominent plantation owner in the South in the 1800s. General Sherman took over his house for three days after they fled his march to the Sea because it was such a nice place.
Family has been around.
At first he fought Spanish commies, and then he went to Russia to fight Soviet Commies. Not a really good time.
>>79042022
Proud?
He was an immigrant that came over to Scotland from Naples. He opened a comer shop.
>>79016014
A bunch died in ww2. Eastern front was a bitch
>>79049382
A fucking hero though
Owned a dairy farm and was a high school principle and chemistry teacher. Had a black cat named Nigger.
>>79049646
Yes, I feel proud of him, eventhough he already experienced war he went to hell again because it was one of the few ways of securing a save income for his family in post civil war spain
How many nationalities are mixed in each anon here on average, I wonder.
Only if we were able to backtrack our ancestors' movements and resettlements at least up to 1000 years back.
Because in reality, everyone here is probably something like Russian-Anglo-Franco-Arabian-Slovenian-Tartar-Viking-Finn-Spanish mixture or something like that.
>How bad did your great grandparent have it?
Great Grandpa was a wealthy farmer and landowner in Hungary until the communist party took over in 1919, stole almost everything from him and made him flee to the US with the few family members he could save. He arrived just in time to have the little wealth he had destroyed by the 1920 crash and the great depression. He died a poor land leasing farmer in Ohio after suffering a long period of dementia.
So, pretty bad.
It took 2 generations to crawl out of that financial hole.
Grandfathers on both mother and fathers side were proud fishermen. I fact, both families had been fishermen for generations. They were not poor, but not rich either
>>79050019
I for one know it's full french up to when I could track (5 centuries).
>>79016014
Mine had it pretty good actually:
>Maternal grandfather's parents
His father was a teacher I believe.
>Maternal grandmother's parents
Her father was an electrical engineer. Worked overnight shifts in a power plant.
>Paternal grandfather's parents
I think his father was a civil engineer (he was also a civil engineer).
>Paternal grandmother's parents
I believe he was in the Raj (British ruling elite in India). My grandmother was therefore born in India (fully English heritage though).
>>79016014
Two were Illinois gentry, one was a high falootin farmer, one was a farmer who went to WWI.
None had a terrible life as far as I know.
>>79050007
My great grandfather fetched water in the canary islands he saved up the little that he had to get a ticket to cuba and got extremely wealthy running a farm.
The commies later took it all away from his son my grandfather
One was an immigrant from Scotland, moved here and became a preacher. Dude was fucking built, had to be like 8 feet tall.
Other one joined WW2 when he was 16, ended up going into Korea and the vitenam war, crazy fucker. In the 70's he was the most decorated solider in US army history I believe, became the deputy marshall of california or something like that and shook hands with President Gerald Ford after getting all these medals. Pretty dank.
>>79050146
It's still probably mixed at some point, for at every generation step the number of people, who made you the way you are increases exponentially.
2^n
E.g. for your first step ancestors you have n=1 => 2 - mom and dad.
For your second you have n=2 => 4 - two grandmas and two grandpas.
For your third generation ancestors you have n=3 => 8 - four grandmas and four grandpas.
Your chances of being unmixed dimishes exponentially with each step of ancestry further examined.
Ten generarions ago you were made by the genes of 1024 people, out of which at least a bunch were foreigners with high probability.
1. Fought in the mexican revolution and ended up getting a native pregnant.
2. A guy from cuba who got a native pregnant.
3 and 4. Random natives.
my great grandad was in the polish army and was executed as he was an officer. My grandfather along with his sister was sent to a prisoner of war camp, but he managed to escape and make it to Italy where he joined a polish liberation front operating in Italy. He joined up with British forces moving through but ended up getting shot through the leg and he was taking back to the UK, where he started his family. Pretty sure the rest of the polish family died during nazi occupation
Raised without fathers in soviet russia in poverty because "muh evil rich people"
>>79016014
(Paternal) Irish immigrant from Listowel. Came over in his twenties because he had no inheritance. Eventually settled in Detroit. On my mother's side my great-grandfather fought in France at the age of 17. He was born in the year 1900
>>79049259
>tfw you should've been born a millionaire but the commies stole it all and killed your family
>>79051135
His brother (paternal) participated in the Irish War of Independence and the Civil War. He was a member of the IRA I believe. Keep in mind this was in the 1910s and 20s and not the PIRA. I do not want to come of as praising them.
Grandad worked as a farmer as a young boy. Hated it, so he joined the Army and rose up to Colonel. Still won't eat chicken because of all the dead ones he'd have to scrape out from under the house.
>>79016014
He was a middle class clerk living just outside Liverpool. The family had a bit of money so it was a comfortable existence
My ggf was a chef for Nazi generals in ww2, died in a Siberian PoW camp.
>>79016014
They got paid to go to Africa and boss darkies around.
>>79018189
>polish soldier
>fighting the Japanese
That happened.
He was a paramedic in the pacific theater. He saw some horrific shit. Then he lost his wife in a car crash and the PTSD of war and personal loss got to him and he drank himself to death.
>>79052324
>guy on the left
>freeze frame
>"that's me. you're probably wondering how i got here..."
>>79016014
My great grandfather served in WW1 and got insane and alcohol addicted after that. He shot himself in the head after the big market crash in 1929.
My grandfather has grown up in Nazi germany and worked on the farms since he was 12.
My grandmother was schooled in "Hitlers School". Only blue eyed and blond pupils were accepted with exceeding degrees. Too this day she praises Hitler. Sadly she is about to die within the next days.
Her close friend served at the age of 15 in the battle of Berlin. He loaded the anti-aircraft gun.
When he watched the news he always got angry and said that this would`t had happened if Hitler hadn`t started the war or if they won the war.
After the war they had it good though
>>79016014
Mothers: Great grand parents fought eachother in WWI (British and German) German one hated yurope left and never came back, british one was sent to canada by family because he married a welsh girl (too tribal). In america the German was a steel worker and didn't loose a nickle in the great depression, English one worked with henry ford and got a nice patent.
Dad's: one was classical Irish drunk and I don't know anything about the other.
Stealing and reselling household appliances during his childhood to earn money in some shitty part of London.
He's a multi-millionaire now.
>>79052666
The quintessential Londoner success story. You best be following in his footsteps, anon.
>>79016014
Mine was a fisherman living on an isolated island off the coast of Canada. There was no school, so he had to work, and when him and his dad went fishing, he was only 13. But he gained enough experience, that one day when his dad was sick, he took the boat out and fished all day, not knowing how to navigate, and he fed the family.
My other grandfather was in Normandy and was shot and died fighting the krauts.
Mine died in a coal mine fire in Slc utah.
>>79034694
Well, yes there seems to. Remove kebab though.
As for my grandpa, he spent most of his youth in an internment camp on Java during the Second World War. He used to live in Surabaya, got the fuck out to Bandung when the rebels murdered brigadier Mallaby, which got followed by the Islamic rebels mass murdering people who weren't muslim.
Lived in Bandung for a few years, got kicked out of the country with the entire family in 1955. Joined the Dutch army for two years since he wanted his country back, which didn't happen, and worked worked for about 45-50 years afterwards as an electrician in the Netherlands.
>>79016014
He fought in WW1 and survived. Saw combat in France.
>>79045436
If you would live inbetween Sweden and Russia then you would take couple of drinks also.
>>79017467
>albanian here
same.
>>79016014
Really really really really bad. He was Italian and Italians are treated as subhuman
About my great-grandad, he died in Indonesia from illness not long after the Japanese surrender. He got pretty much worked to death by the Nips.
>>79042860
Sure
>>79042980
Only to find out they were treated like garbarge
Holy shit. post and sleep. and it's still going!!
>>79016014
my grandparents all grew up after irish independence, not all that good but better than their own grandparents by all accounts
He worked in car body work shops before we knew breathing body work shit destroys your lungs. He died because when his wife needed more attention because of Alzheimer's he stopped working out daily and his lung issues manifested.
That and the old fuck didn't like drinking water for some reason. Buy overall he was a good guy and I'm glad he died before having to see 2016.
Poor Irish immigrant farmers in New Mexico during the Great Depression.
