Was Soviet's role in the Soviet-Afghan War equivalent to USAs role in the Vietnam War?
If so: Why/Why not?
>>1115610
Soviets almost pacified the country before Mujahedin started to come there from around the world.
Afghanistan is good old - anglos fund enemies' enemies who turn into their enemies a decade or so later.
Basically:
>non-aligned president Daoud Khan decides to break ties with the USSR and align himself closer to the west
>Soviet-backed commies stage a coup and kill Khan
>communist Taraki takes power
>he gets killed by another communist, Amin
>Amin begins to distance himself from the USSR as well
>Amin gets assassinated by the Soviets, gets replaced by Babrak Karmal
>communists pass a land reform which causes an uprising, which results in a full scale civil war
>2/3 of the army joins the rebels
>commies panic and call for Soviets to help, soon there are Soviet troops deployed into Afghanistan
>USA and Pakis see the opportunity and start funding the rebels
>Soviets chimp out, bomb the country to the stone age and murder 2 million civilians
>ongoing collapse of the USSR / communism forces the Soviets to withdraw after 10 years
>soon after that Afghanistan erupts into another civil war between the mujahedeen and the Pakistani-backed Taliban
>>1115873
gotta love communism and islam
Lets see if this works.
>Pic an era, a region, an event, a war, etc
>Fill in chart with historical figures or nations
>We guess each-others historical bias
The Axial Age
>>1115622
Slow down nigga
Would the world have been better without the Holy Roman Empire?
>>1115437
>Charles the Great
>Holy Roman Empire
wew
>>1115437
You like speaking Arabic boy?
>>1115676
WE WUZ FRANKS AND SHEEEEEITTTTT
![Proposed_postwar_Japan_occupation_zones[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/nvPSxS5.png "Proposed postwar Japan occupation zones[1]")
In the event that Hiroshima and Nagasaki aren't bombed and the allies proceed with operation downfall, was a Soviet invasion of Hokkaido or somewhere similar planned?
Were the Soviets even capable of carrying out an amphibious invasion at that point?
I find the ramifications of a divided Japan like Germany quite interesting, but would it have been even historically possible?
>>1115354
No I just assumed that if they had invaded anywhere it would've been Hokkaido, I haven't made any maps.
>>1115333
They weren't capable of doing it(lack of training, experience and assault vessels) but whether Army, Navy, Administration or the Emperor knew about it is another matter.
Somebody knew - as they knew what happened in Kuril Islands but was it army or was it navy?
The capitulation of Japan was definitely speeded up by Soviets invading Manchuria but it was all because they hoped for mediation between them and allies even after the bombs have fallen.
>For 2 million years the precursors of man existed all over the central continents, and required only 3 tools; the chopper, the scraper and the smasher
>For a further 1 million years they refined the material of theyre tools and techniques of contruction, also basic housing begins as does a ritual burial of the dead
>it would be a further 950 thousand years before refinement of technique and tool would allow the hunter gatherers the freedom of time to begin exploring the concept of contructing trinkets or tools for reasonssuch as art or jewellery
>25 thousands years after the first wooden scupltures, beaded necklaces and cave art begin to take prevelence in society, ranged weapons are develpoed and the hunting of game, rather than scavaging has completly taken priority
>15 thousand years later and the next signifigant advance in man would takes place as the first seeds are planted for intentional harvest, with this, walls and the first solely anti-human weapons are built to protect the newly emerged assests
>this continues as such for 10 thousand years as written language and with it the beurocracy to manage and trade these new assests is developed and becomes the coner stone for the tribes who have embraced the advancement to become the first civilisations, and with it all, permanent large scale habitation
>technologies and weapons for the purpose of subjugating other tribal humans and weaker civilisations to carry out your tribes work become insumountably more important than advancing hunting techniques etc, and warfare and conquest of human resources becomes the new corner stone of these civilisations
>as the enslavement of others for the requirements of basic survival become common place, and civilisations over take tribes as the human normal on earth. the wants of the civilised look to ever more intiricate art and jewelery and self promotion, celebrity and human on human warafre take over as the central tenants of the humanity
where to from here?
ad astra per aspera
>>1115257
Two great civilizations rise, one in the east known as the Hwan Empire and one in the west known as the finnish khanate.
Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of....
And unto this, Conan, destined to wear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZY2mRG5mzg
Are there any theories how humanity came to the concept of slavery?
It's the same principle as domestication of animals, except applied to human beings. It's not something deep and profound.
>>1115249
>I am ugg.
>I captured the tribe of Zugg. Killed a few of them inna fight and bitched the rest.
>Man what do I do with the rest.
>Meh, Put em to work.
Alternatively, in ancient tribal systems, there's debt-slavery. Basically if you failed to repay a debt, you worked for the guy you owed shit to.
>>1115268
>in ancient tribal systems, there's debt-slavery. Basically if you failed to repay a debt, you worked for the guy you owed shit to.
Sounds reasonable, desu.
Why do Americans love Thatcher and Churchill but brits hate them?
>>1115074
Brits hate Churchill?
Barely anyone hates Churchill except a few northern communities who still refuse to forget a union thing. Thatcher is divisive but has as many fans as she does haters
>>1115074
Churchill isn't hated by Brits, he's one of the most beloved figures in out history.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/50-greatest-britons-revealed-wills-6495706
Thatcher is more of a polarising figure but she is still enormously popular with right-leaning people.
Ok, you have to make an introduction to sociology.
How would you do it?
What is the essence of thinking sociologically?
Thankfully, you know nothing about current state of sociology: How would you introduce "a science of modernity", or " a science of current societies"?
Is it just observation of all current observations in connection to each other?
Or is it observation of collective actions behind any kind of control or manipulations of reality (work, inventions, science, ...).
O is it just search for social determinants behind ideologies and worldviews?
It's a meme, you dip.
>>1114983
This.
Sociologists refute evolution and praise Tabula Rasa.
Will never be a science because it refuses to understand reality.
Why didn't the germans just razed Stalingrad to the ground with artillery and moved on to the oil fields instead of having a new Verdun in the east for a city with no strategical value?
Because Hitler said so.
Because they didn't know it would turn into a new Verdun obviously.
>>1114740
First post best post
Hey, I'm currently writing a paper on the origins of modern secrecy in politics and I'm stuck. I focused on Machiavelli and Giovanni Botero, arguing that while Machiavelli introduced secrecy and deceit as mere strategies for success (without explicitly hailing them), Botero justified secrecy as one of the foundations of the state. Now I'm caught between reason of state, religion (and if you should fake piety), propaganda, tacitism etc. etc. I have too much material, too many things that come to play, and I just don't seem to manage to put everything into 5-6 short sections over 20 pages.
I tried mindmapping so far - but that rather made me realize that I have way too many key words and categories.
How do you organize your ideas?
It's strange that I just can't get a grip since it's my 3rd paper already.
>>1114729
From what Im reading your topic is too broad, perhaps narrow it down. What's your thesis?
>>1114729
Politics = secrecy
Or maybe I misunderstood you.
>>1114729
you could maybe organize your argumentation around the concept of different christian codes of behaviour for the political elite contradicting one another : the prince has to behave like a "honorable" person according to older knight conduct code, but his "honor" in a more latin sense, his political duty implies screwing his previously mentioned "honorability", also, but he's allowed to do this cuz whoever he screws up or behaves unchrisitan with isnt "honorable" anyway ( one of Machiavelli's justification, there, you have a dialectical organisation structured around one multisemantic concept like honor, or even "morals", but "morality" is maybe to broad. I wrote a paper like that once and it worked.
What television shows and films will stay stamped in history forever?
>>1114707
a literal masterpiece
Well you nailed one with TZ.
Roger Sterling was a frigging genius.
>>1114707
>television shows
None. The very name is synonymous with 'low-quality trash'.
You're a king in the late Middle Ages, how do you beat Swiss pike formations? I'm pissed off mountainniggers with long spears were practically unbeatable. Should've been nerfed desu.
>>1114603
Pay them off
>>1114603
>late middle ages
>cannons finally in use
Spam cannons
I revive the Gladius
When did you first realize that the loyalists were heroes?
1775
>>1114386
>current year
>being a butthurt Brit
No crumpets for you.
>>1114386
Nobody really holds anything against the Loyalists, it's only people like Arnold who started out fighting for America then switched sides who are hated.
>inb4 the Continental Congress didn't give him enough money
So I know I'm supposed to start with the Greeks, but who exactly do I start with?
Start with the story of Cronus eating his babies
In strictly History? Iliad, find a companion piece of fragmented stories of the Trojan War, then read Herodotus. If you're talking philosophy in general, ask /lit/, they have info graphics for that kind of thing.
What's your goal/interest? Why are you supposed to start with the Greeks? Your goals will influence where you want to start.
There was an image with a flow chart of Greek literature, though. Someone might post it.
U-20 Dindu Nuffin
Walther Schwieger wuz a gud boi
Imperial Germany Did Literally Nothing Wrong
4 × 50 cm Torpedoes Can't Melt Watertight Compartments
>>1113976
Unrestricted submarine warfare is some scary shit. I am thankful the Cold War never got hot. We might have kicked some Soviet ass, but the words "Torpedo in the Water" are words I (as a submarine sonar man) am glad I never had to speak (except in training).
Here's hoping my son and his submarine keep those Trident missiles in their tubes.
(U 505 Mus of Sci & Ind - Chicago)
>>1113976
Load your passenger ships with ammunition
Get hit
![stalingrad90[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/JSGN7RN.jpg "stalingrad90[1]")
