Explain to this hungry West German child why it's better to be dead than Red
Because the Soviets were the ones starving them out.
>>1084287
Because when you're red the hunger lasts for decades.
>>1084291
The initial US policy toward Germany was complete industrial dismemberment
What do you all think of the logical concept of possible worlds?
Is it an ideal measurement of necessity, or do you think there is a better system?
>>1084219
Modal realism made anime real.
>>1084219
>possible worlds
elaborate please
>>1084224
http://www.philpapers.org/archive/sinPG/
I'm somewhat shit with my 20th Century History because the lack of swords n shit made me not care for it when I was younger so..
...how was the economy of the Soviet Union? Was it North Korea Isolated-Tier or was it trading within communist countries only? Or was it more like Modern China: a communist government trading with everyone?
http://msxnet.org/orwell/print/animal_farm.pdf
read this
>>1084041
>Fiction
>>1084044
If you're too slow for allegory, I won't hold it against you. Wikipedia is probably more your speed anyway.
>Criticizes the Holy Roman Empire
>Constantly cucks to Voltaire
>Examines the Empire centuries after its formation
>Doesnt realize the title of Holy Roman Emperor was given to based Charlemange after he kicked the muslims out of France and saved Europe from Islam, something pretty holy and deserving of a Roman Emperor
Of course it'd turn to shit much later on, but still better than the Byzantines
>>1083894
His grandfather was much more based, Charles Martel the kebab remover.
>>1083928
Charles was based but not as based as Charles the Based.
>>1083894
>Doesnt realize the title of Holy Roman Emperor was given to based Charlemange after he kicked the muslims out of France and saved Europe from Islam, something pretty holy and deserving of a Roman Emperor
Except it wasn't. The pope gave Charlemagne the title of "Roman Emperor" cause he was scared shitless and wanted to get in good with Charlie. "Holy" was only added in 1157 by Frederick Barbarossa to fuck with the Pope.
Please no "WE WUZ" shitposting, but is this painting for real?
Did Prussia allow colonials/sub-saharians on their ranks? Even in such racism-filled societies was race-mixing acceptable?
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Sabac_el_Cher
Learn to google.
>>1083916
>>1083944
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Realhistoryww
I know you guys are gonna say
>rationalwiki
but no one takes Realhistoryww seriously
>>1083886
The contrast in skin colors compliments well and looks beautiful. Aesthetically it makes me think of chocolate w/ whip cream.
What you thing it would happen if Stauffenberg had succeded in kill Hitler?
Hitler would have died
>>1083877
So smart, anon
Hitler would not be alive
Hey /his/; I would like to know exactly of some credible and thoughtful reads on the successes and failures of Hitler and Stalin. Though WW2 is my main focus I would like if someone could point me to a book over Napoleon and Alexander the Great's military histories as well.
>pic somewhat related.
Read a few essays by Glantz. It's the most accurate Soviet portrayal of the war you can get in the west if you don't read snowrunes.
>>1083867
Overy, Russia's War
companion documentary: Russia's War: blood on the snow
I need reference for the daily lives of ancient clans and tribes.
Googling the names of such countries mostly gets me their politics and/or military facts/encounters. What I need is more about how they lived.
how they got sustenance
what arts and musics they preferred
when they hunted, what they hunted, and how
land laws
rights of battle
all that kind of stuff
Knowledge of ancient crafting methods for armaments and arts are equally important to me as knowledge of how they caught fish or built huts, if not slightly lesser.
Time-range: anywhere from the 1st to 6th centuries.
Areas: Anywhere east of Pakistan, north of Cameroon, south of the north pole, and west of the North Atlantic Ocean.
do your own homework.
>>1083731
Which tribes? where? you need to be more specific, also I think you got your east and west mixed up
This is the most retardedly vague question ever
>>1084306
I blame his teacher
Is this worth reading?
>>1083726
>biography
>Pulitzer
Probably not.
Have you considered reading a social history of the early post-war instead?
Bump
What is the general opinion of /his/ on McCullough's biographies?
>>1083726
I am constantly seeing David McCullough books pop up when broswing for history reading. Is this guy some top historian with tons of best selling books?
Did the Mongols make any significant/measurable impact in the genetics of Eastern Europeans?
I'm half Ukrainian and I was born with a mongolian blue birthmark. You don't necessarily have to be mongolian to get it, but you definitely have to be part non white.
>>1083690
Yes, Eastern Europeans are Mongolian rape babies.
>>1083713
The fuck is that?
What's something about Teddy that I'd be hard pressed to learn just skimming online sources? I'm doing a presentation on him Thursday and want to include some things that generally aren't that well known about the man. It's a "tribute speech", so one person in my group is doing the conservation angle, someone else is just talking about his life, ect. I chose to talk about the neat shit he was into, like his study of Judo, "strenuous life", ect, but I want to include something that everyone hasn't just already heard.
>>1083553
>another "it's finals timel" thread
He hated being called teddy because it was the nickname one of his sons called him (and he passed away). It was said one could tell who was friends with him by whether or not they'd call him Teddy. One of his favored titles was being called the Colonel (calling back to his army days).
Conservation angle? While on a trip out west to do some hard living (I think it was to setup his ranch/hunt/enjoy nature), he was camping (or resting or something with his party) and a 2-3 men stole his canoe. With his small party, he tracked down and arrested the men.
When he was a kid, he was already extremely into nature, keeping detailed notes and sketches and collecting samples from places he'd visit with his family (like Egypt). As a mere child and even into his college days @Harvard (where he had a small apartment off campus), his room was filled with taxidermies specimens. Oh, he was very into taxidermy as well.
He produced scientifically significant work about animals he'd observe and hunt (he had a special affection for birds), but having already received fame for his other accomplishments (he was president at this time), he was disappointed the press would spend a token amount of time on his work and more on the human interest side of his accomplishments.
Theodore would rarely let anyone get him down as he liked people to agree with him and see things his way, but John Muir of pic related (at the time a celebrated naturalist who Theodore sought and succeeded at becoming fast friends with) after Theodore excitedly swapped a tale of a hunt he had (they were sharing nature experiences and were already friends at this point, might've been during a nature trip actually) and Muir (who hated hunting) said something to the effect of "Theodore, when will you put that childishness down?". Now, if this were anybody but a naturalist (an occupation Theodore respected more than anything) he'd have launched into...
>>1083658
Nice, anon. Can you recommend a good biography? I won't need it for this assignment, I just need some general info for that, but I'd like to read one anyway.
>>1083553
He really fucking loved Remington rifles.
what went wrong?
There wasn't a worthy successor after Tito's death.
Serbs
>>1083527
This.
There's a reason the Czechs and Slovaks didn't do this shit.
>I heard that all Western Europeans are related to Charlemagne in the same way all mainland Asians are related to Genghis Khan.
Is this bullshit or is there some truth to it?
>>1083246
Statistically its literally true, but we are also related to everybody else alive at the same time
All living organisms on earth share a common ancestor.
>First Attila scenario featuring Persia and the Scythians, so obviously set somewhere in Asia
>Faction called 'Western Roman Empire
I love the AoE series, but how historically inaccurate is it?
No worse than the Civilization series
>>1083244
Not very, but still fun. Check out 0AD
>>1083244
nigga your legionaries are just dudes with Corinthian helmets and round shields and your centurions are guys with flat square shields and a spear.
it's 1998. it's a very good excuse to be inaccurate.
but i still played the shit out of this game.
Men of legends, but historically verifiable? Eyyeh?
But these legends surely have progenitors, events worth remembering and propagating. Something had to happen to spawn the legends.
>muh Christcucks and Moses
Not the main point. My main point is men, women, events of legend that may not be the most historically verifiable when compared to, say, the Storming of the Bastille or the Finno-Korean Hyperwar, but something clearly important happened to start these legends.
Unless you honestly think all relitivley unverifiable accounts of history are just BS lies propagated at X date before 300 AD as part of an esoteric circlejerk to brainwash the masses of some other /x/-tier crap. Then you can go fuck yourself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osarseph
>>1082952
youre taking it to literaly
they are stories about man, about gods, life, reality, conveying models, guidelines, sets of methaphisical notions, or just bits of folk tales and sincretic religion
they are not about people, not realy, even if they involve some pseudo-history of this tribe or that, the protagonists themselves are stories, symbols and keys
some arbirary set of historic events and conditions might have influenced them, but they are myths, which have a logic of their own
take christ for example
so there might have been some jew named jeshua and he might have been a rabbi in jeruzalem, or maybe even part of some larger sect, but thats just a meaningless historical fact
the word incarnating, living among us, doing miracles and giving sacraments, revealing that which has been hidden since the begining of time etc... crucified buried and rissen on the third day and so on, thats the myth of jesus christ, the logos made flesh, and those are his stories and parrables, its all a myth, but that is why it has actual meaning and value
if it all literaly happened, it would be absurd and ridiculous
>an esoteric circlejerk to brainwash the masses
>/x/-tier crap
>>1082952
>Jimmu, Moses
Definitely not.
>Gilgamesh
Probably based on some early Sumerian king
>Odysseus
The Iliad might have been vaguely based on a real event, but the Odyssey is probably just mythology. It's probably worth noting that Homer himself is probably largely mythological.
