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>>1133609
I wonder why art-deco is so underappreciated.
Not all modern art is bad right?
Of course not.
>>1122942
art is neither bad, nor good, it's art.
Sure it's not.
Recommend me some decent books.
I know knowthing except that everyone hated everyone.
Lets solve this once and for all, boffins.
>Yugoslavia is a bunch of tiny slav nations cobbled together by a charismatic dictator
>dictator dies
>nationalism begins to resurface
>Serbs are the only people really interested in keeping Yugoslavia together
>communism falls
>Serbs try and keep anyone from forming their own country because muh Yugoslavia and because they're afraid of what will happen to Serbian minorities in newly independent countries
>fight 4 separate wars trying to keep places under Yugoslavian control that don't want to be
>during the third of these wars, the one in Bosnia, they storm a bunch of UN compounds and start shooting at NATO fighter jets
>Serb army in Yugoslavia gets bombed
>Serbs leave Yugoslavia
>insurgency in Kosovo heats up
>at this point, everyone is thoroughly sick of Serbias shit
>Serbia proper is bombed by NATO, Kosovo becomes independent
>Serbia still eternally salty over losing a bunch of wars, doubly so because they started all of them
>Russia salty because Serbia is traditionally Russia's ally, but the Yeltsin administration was too weak, and too concerned with relations with the west to bother shielding Serbia from the consequences of their retard actions
>>1153131
I'll start at the beginning, which is end of WW1. The Serbs were always the majority in Yugoslavia, and in the 'Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes' the Serb king split up country in such a way, that the Serbs were also the majority in almost every province (pic related). This caused considerable anger in all the other ethnicities, and most of all the Croats, who in return became Nazi collaborators and committed horrible war crimes against Serbian civilians (Jasenovac concentration camp).
The communists inherited Yugoslavia after WW2, and they knew exactly what was the problem and at all cost wanted to avoid repeating it. So they decided to balance the power between all ethnicities, such that no single ethnicity could pass laws that would harm another. Most importantly this meant leaving the supreme executive power in the hands of a council of 6, the communist party chairman of each member state - and requiring a simple majority to declare war, change the constitution, pass laws, etc. Montenegro, Serbia, and Macedonia would always give the "pro-Serbian/Orthodox" vote, while the other 3, Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia could counter it. If the parties couldn't find a compromise over ethnic issues, they would always end up in a stalemate. To seal the deal, the member states were forbidden to secede by the constitution, ruling out any change in the supreme council and making the civil war of 91-95 impossible (!). And to make doubly sure, they even declared Croatia and Bosnia as multi-ethnic in their respective constitutions, forcing any constitutional changes to be approved by every ethnicity in the respective state.
So Croatia and Bosnia were twice bound by law, Serbia was bound by the fact that they had large minorities in other constituent states, and Montenegro, Slovenia and Macedonia were also bound by the constitution. The communist feared a break up the most, and they made it impossible.
Country was unsuccesfull for a long time, even umder tito.
War started when kosovo openly blamed serbs and system
>slovenes blamed system
>croats blamed
>bosnians were blaming each others
>serbs blamed croats and others
>montenegro still didn't work
>macedonia was bussy with claiming Alexander
Who was more evil and/or crazy during WW2, the germans or the japanese?
Evil: Hitler
Crazy: Stalin
It was the nazis they are most evil people in history and Hitler the worst man in history did you not go to school???
>Hitler was bad
Am I on reddit right now?
Thoughts on him?
he's a pretty good actor I guess
>>1153329
Terrorism.
>>1153329
Hugely overrated
Three alt history questions.
Has Stalin died in november 1941 and had USSR collapsed, how would WW2 continue? If at all?
Would USA have the will to try and subdue unfettered Nazi Germany?
Would Britain fall?
>>1151136
Unless the Soviets not entering the war suddenly gave Germany a large surface fleet and larger Air Force, no, nothing changes except that the war lasts longer.
>>1151148
What if soviet supported Germany and nazi . I know it is very unlikely to happen .
>>1151161
They did support them until the Nazis decided it was time to take clay.
>Bren gun > MG34-42
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXQygRVvEmM
Is he right?
No, and he's British which furthers discredits his opinion.
>>1150999
He's British so its probably a personal biased opinion.
>>1150999
Everyone knows British people aren't allowed to own pocket knives, so why would they know jack shit about guns.
Why arent you a Marxist, /his/?
>inb4 muh judeo-christians morals
>inb4 muh-judeo-christian idea of heaven
>inb4 muh right to completely explote all the natural resources
Pic related is literally the best philosopher ever, lets make earth and real life our heaven, bros.
>>>/cuckshed/
>>1149101
Oh look, it's this thread again. Little petit-bourgeoise me would love to see a different outcome this time, but I guess it's a historical inevitability.
Heaven is the spiritual dimension intersecting with the material, you don't make heaven by saying there is no heaven and let's have it strictly material.
What is the Christian version of Wahhabism ?
Christian Dominionism after America collapses and Glenn Beck the Anointed One decides to make Texas great again
>>1147040
White American Protestantism
>>1147040
Protestantism. It's not a fair comparison though, since Islamic dogma isn't centralized in Mecca like Catholicism is in the Vatican and as such can never have a "reform" because no one school of thought is the "correct" one to follow and repair. A muslim pope would solve a lot of their problems desu.
Are there any historical events that legitimately make you feel sad to know they happened?
For me it's the fall of the Weimar Republic.
It could have been wonderful.
>wonderful
with
>all those Silesians
>that enclave
>Holstein
It would've been a mess
>>1146458
>>>/gsg/
>>1146423
For me it was the fall of the Third Reich.
It could of been wonderful.
Were there ever a more loveable bunch of shitflinging rebels than the IRA?
>All those catchy as fuck anti-British songs
>wacky IRA antics in between kneecappings and bombs
>The absolutely infinite salt of unionists and brits
I wish I was irish
I don't know why the Irish have such a good reputation abroad if they're some of the scummiest, trashiest and dumbest people in Europe. Literally only Albanians are more retarded.
You're basically heaping praise upon papist ISIS.
>Targetting civillians
>Lovable
I want americans to leave
So /his/ where and when is your comfy place and time?
Recently saw a thread about pre roman Iberia and it looked cosy as fuck.
Just imagine hanging out and fishing with your buddies and then nipping to the tavern for a night of booze and wenches as a squall rolls past.
>>1136517
>Just imagine hanging out and fishing with your buddies and then nipping to the tavern for a night of booze and wenches as a squall rolls past.
There are still fishing villages all around the world boy.
>>1136517
OP of that thread here, can confirm, constant warfare aside, iberian towns were comfy as fuck.
What can /his/ tell me about the Papal States?
>>1153398
The official land of the Papacy.
>>1153402
Any other questions, kiddo?
Ballet, classical music, opera, (musical) theater. Feel free to ask any questions and open up any topics, post your waifu, or state any opinions.
I'll post some topics to get us started:
1) Is art theater suffering? What can be done to help increase interest in the arts? What is being done where you live? Do you like it? Is it effective?
2) Is it your impression that choreographers are moving away from using art music as settings for their works? Why? Does this have implications for new composers? For the relationship between art music and art dance?
Ballet dancer here. Can you explain what you mean by choreographers moving away from "art music"? Which choreographers do you mean and define "art music"? As far as I know a lot of choreographers (mostly ballet just because that's my area of expertise) either use old compositions or newer pieces that tend to fall under the ambient umbrella
>>1149040here again
I want to ask about the pretentiousness of a lot of arts that try and keep themselves pure (I'm thinking of ballet again but there are plenty of others that also suffer from this). I've noticed that for the most part these arts have only a few wealthy, older patrons that support them and the audience tends to be mostly other members of that artistic community. It feels masturbatory almost. What do you think of it? Is it dangerous for the art form?
>>1149040
I really don't know much about ballet, but whenever I go to see local choreographers in the dance companies from my community (Midwest America), they seem to mostly choreograph to ambient, film or pop music.
I guess by "art" music, I mean contemporary music produced in an academic setting (Julia Wolfe, Jennifer Higdon, Pauline Oliveros would be examples. Don't ask me why I only picked women). My pic in the OP is a nonexample of what I'm talking about.
I (as a composer) worked with some dancers on a work that was sadly never developed that much or performed. I think that this kind of collaboration was a lot of fun and that more dancers and composers should/would be interested in working together more often.
I'll get to your second post in a second.
What was his end game?
>>1144574
To be an Epin Hero just like in his animes.
>>1144574
Butthurt between two balkan nations, Greece, and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Oceanus :'(
Oh and to prove he was better than everyone in the Iliad.
