Same as last thread, post your nine favourite historical figures. Others rate and guess your country.
>>1070854
England
>>1070930
>top right
What was the reasoning for attacking Pearl Harbor? Did they honestly think they could beat the US?
They thought they could force America to the peace table immediately after wiping out the pacific fleet.
Yes, some Japanese leaders knew this was retarded.
>>1067589
Why did they think that would work? Was Hirohito autistic or did he not make these decisions?
They thought the US would attack them first when they moved on the dutch east indies for oil, which is fucking retarded. They might have got involved if they invaded australia, but dutch east indies? That's were all the oil was any way what fucking strategic value was in Australia and new guinea
Did the soldiers in the civil war care about the slaves at all?
They cared about what they care about in every war. Not getting shot/stabbed/blown up and preventing their buddies from doing the same.
I'm sure there's patriotism and high minded ideals here and there but those probably lasted until the first shots are fired and get trampled into the dust in the first charge
>>1074500
Many surely did. But most people who go to war do it for personal reasons, i.e. to travel and experience war, or because they have no other prospects, or because they'd be looked down upon if they didn't. Still more do it out of a general sense of "fighting for my people" regardless of the policies of those who started the war.
Once actually in the war, >>1074511 self-preservation is the name of the game.
But also remember that a lot of people mainly lived on farms, so the information they had about the war was largely going to be coming from local papers, which were generally biased as fuck.
>>1074500
>Did the soldiers in the civil war care about the slaves at all?
Why would they? Until the Emancipation Proclamation, the war was about unification of the union and it was a very unpopular idea with riots kicking in once the draft started. The idea that was war was over the North wanting to free slaves is misguided at best considering it didn't become a war goal until the war was already half way over and even then it was to gain slave manpower into the Union Army and drum up idealism to make the draft go smoother than it had been up to that point. For the Confederacy, it was likely that even fewer soldiers fought for the slaves considering how few slave owners there actually were. Southern chivalry was the name of the game back then and the invasion by the North, no matter who started the war, brought it out in almost everyone. As the war drug on, a revanchism of sorts dug in and thus more people saw their honor or family honor affronted and enlisted. The draft went exceptionally smooth in the Confederacy for this reason.
tl;dr
Outside of a few, it's not likely.
Why does Russia deny Soviet occupation/anexation of Eastern Europe? Especially the Baltic countries, even thoigh Molotov-Ribbentrop pact states that Soviet Union would gain control over "zones of interest" (which included Baltic states and a part of Poland)
Also,why do ,Baltic people (especially Latvians and Estonians), speak of soviet occupation as of a bad thing(if apart from mass deportations),even though their countries got industriallised pretty well?
Also I've read that Latvia wants to get compensation for occupation from Russia. Does Russia have to pay that compensation?
>>1074323
>Also,why do ,Baltic people (especially Latvians and Estonians), speak of soviet occupation as of a bad thing(if apart from mass deportations),even though their countries got industriallised pretty well?
r u sirius
Because they were lied to their whole life. They probably think that Americans made up the pact becouse "muh we defeated germans and saved Europe and American jealous and he hates us and he wants to beat mother Russia and he wants to destroy slavic unity!"
>>1074323
As a Lithuanian I have to say it was a lot more than mass deportations. The economy dun goofd and we lived in a constant deficit resulting in mass stealing from workplaces which resulted in a constant deficit which resulted in mass stealing from worplaces etc. People woyld often get thrown into asylums and deemed crazy for calling themselves Lithuanian and other stuff like that, they would come out absolutely brainwashed. The reoccupation from Germany took a huge toll on us. We also ended up behind the West in terms of civilisation even more than before the Russian Empire and USSR occupations
""""""""""""English"""""""""""" England
>>1071472
Welsh are English enough.
None of the royal families were ever particularly related to the countries they ruled over. They married each other, not commoners from their own lands. European royalty are their own (inbred as fuck) people.
>>1071472
>Canute
>English
Wut?
Do protestants believe that Jesus is God?
yes, they're not Arians
>>1070383
They might as well be.
Here's how I was taught:
Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit are the compression, ignition, and exhaust of the same engine. They're not the same, but part of the same whole, vital to its function, and you need to understand all three both separately and as a whole to understand its working.
... the results of the air raids, I´ll start with my hometown
Nuremberg
Can someone give me the greentext story to Muhammad's life pls
>>1073527
after you delete that image
>>1073527
>ali.jpg
Is this bait?
>>1073527
>he wuz black
1. Construct an internal enemy, as both focus and diversion.
2. Isolate and demonize that enemy by unleashing and protecting the utterance of overt and coded name-calling and verbal abuse. Employ ad hominem attacks as legitimate charges against that enemy.
3. Enlist and create sources and distributors of information who are willing to reinforce demonizing process because it is profitable, because it grants power and because it works.
4. Palisade all art forms: monitor, discredit or expel those that challenge or destabilize processes of demonization and deification.
5. Subvert and malign all representatives of and sympathizers with this constructed enemy.
6. Solicit, from among the enemy, collaborators who agree with and can sanitize the dispossession process.
7. Pathologize the enemy in scholarly and popular mediums; recycle, for example, scientific racism and the myths of racial superiority in order to naturalize the pathology.
8. Criminalize the enemy. Then prepare, budget for and rationalize the building of holding arenas for the enemy-especially the males and absolutely its children.
9. Reward mindlessness and apathy with monumentalized entertainments and with little pleasures, tiny seductions: a few minutes on television, a few lines in the press; a little fun, a little style, a little consequence.
10. Maintain, at all costs, silence.
What did she mean by this?
Reminds me a lot of Umberto Eco's signs of fascism.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/
>>1071098
Why?
>>1071033
This is 10 steps to Nazism, not fascism in general. Mussolini's Italy didn't follow this trajectory at all, neither did Peron or Pinochet or Deng Zho Ping.
Which colonial power was the least destructive and why?
>>1067507
The Germans because they had the least colonies of the major powers and didn't do shit with it. (No good or bad).
>>1067507
Denmark?
Duchy of Courland-Semigallia
Is there an argument against nihilism?
Isn't it the most "meaningful" realization and the last frontier of philosophical thought?
>there's no one telling me what to do
>so i can't do anything
>so sad. no meaning.... :'((
>>1065160
This has nothing to do with nihilism
>>1065153
Is there an argument against solipsism?
No, not an entirely convincing one. But philosophy kept advancing beyond it.
Ok /his/, time to confess your boos, i'll start:
Romaboo
Byzaboo
Veniceboo
Prussia Pro
>>1051324
byzaboo and veniceboo at the same time?
is this possible?
>>1051332
Yes.It hurts
>>1051324
CARTHABOO
Why is Japanese Internment never talked about?
>>1073245
cause concentration camps are things only nazis do silly
>>1073245
america a gud boi dindu nuffin wrong dose nazi were da ebil racis i ain shittin ya
>>1073245
I'm Canadian and we spent a fair amount of time on it in my highschool.
Why does communist revolution always turn into State Capatilism every time?
Inherent human selfishnes.
>>1071363
this desu
It's a simple question is that many ask, why did the US come out of its revolution basically intact while other countries devolve to chaos after they gain independence.
>France devolved shortly back to dictatorship.
>China was run by warlords until slipping to Communism.
>Nearly every African nation devolved to anarchy
My guess is that the US was based on a set of ideals that united most of the nation in one state of mind in regards to limited government. It also helped that the revolution did not seek to upend society, but only the government.
Thoughts?
You are a moron.
American revolution was successful because it was impossible for Britain to win an overseas war against a group of states that together was a very populous and prosperous country, that happened to have the help of two of the major European powers.
Because the US revolution was basically just an informal aristocracy, they didn't aim for a total restart of society like the French.
The Americans were a hell of a lot stronger, taller, healthier, and all around better than the Brits.
t. my HS education
