Why did Russians turn their backs on the family that turned Russia from a backwater feudal shithole to a modern European empire?
because it still was a feudal shithole and nicky wanted to keep it that way
Because it was feudal shithole even during reign of Romanovs, because the industrialization was slow and because the transition to capitalism was progressing slow too.
And because landlordship wasn't abolished.
Because the elements of capitalism in Russia were hypermodern and concentrated in critical locations and industries. Because the rate of extractive profit in Russian agriculture was very high. Because peasant communities had a historical memory of success in the removal of serfdom, the expectation of more, and a hatred of landlords. Because literacy was the work of socialists and narodniks. Because the Russian ruling class and bourgeoisie were incompetent at repression and democracy. Because the Romanovs were horribly incompetent at statecraft. Because Russia lost a major war.
Why did Westerners stop attending church?
What eroded the power of religion over people's lives?
>>1037662
Jews and science.
What a stupid question.
>>1037664
Science and religion seem to represent different domains, though
/his/ Tell me what you know about fascism
delete this
>>1037399
It would very much like to kill me and my fellow matzoh eaters
>>1037399
Shitty narcissistic ideology that never admits when its wrong.
I'm looking for an honest man.
>>1036365
I'm Jesus Christ
Have you tried masturbating in the public market?
Hold up a mirror
How did day to day life in communist countries like Russia under the Soviet Union differ from their capitalist rivals? Did workers earn wages that they were free to spend? Did businesses operate similarly but just run by the state? If you needed your shoe repaired where would you go?
>>1034127
There was way more time spend standing in lines and pondering where one could get some necessary stuff, for one. Also since wages were fixed regardless of performance, plenty of people didn't do shit at work.
Wages were free to spend buuuut there wasn't much to actually spend them on. Black market was there, of course, but actual market prices were crazy expensive compared to salaries people got.
No, they had centralized plans they had to abide to. Almost nothing was actually decided within the business itself. This being said, there were small legally allowed ways of extra income, like selling your stuff on the farmers' market or repairing clothes.
To a shoe repairman, duh.
>>1034127
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dFdKjhgt3k
>>1034127
>Did workers earn wages that they were free to spend?
Yes, the problem was you couldn*t buy shit
So everyone knows the "Hitler was the most evil man in history" meme. Let's ignore that for a moment.
Who was the most evil man (or woman) in history *who isn't a political figure*?
>>1044894
Some serial killer like Fish.
>>1044894
define evil
How does this make you feel, /his/?
That thin line hurts me deep in my soul.
>>1039186
It makes me feel good
t. Margaret Thatcher
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Post three favorite philosophers and your favorite ideas
Joseph de maistre --Legitimate authority
Aristotle -- character
Ted Kaczynski -- surrogate activities
>>1038909
Is that le Voltaire hate man?
Maistre - proportions in history and the sacredness of bloodshed
Hayek - spontaneous emergence
Benjamin Constant - freedom and imagination
>>1038920
fuck you faggot
How was this madman able to come to power?
How did he take a democracy and turn it into a Hitlocentric dictatorship?
>>1034954
Germans are sheeple.
DUDE EMERGENCY POWERS LMAO
>Alright, you can be Chancellor, but you're forming a coalition with the conservatives and Hindenburg remains president
I can't believe that there was *Second* Mexican Empire. What are some other countries that you hard pressed to believe?
>>1030934
The US should have just annexed Mexico what a stupid state to exist.
>You will never live in a world where the Mexican empire exists
Why even live?
Even if we are used to it, a Stalinist monarchy in the north half of Korea.
While post-imperial nations like the UK, France and Germany have gone entirely multicultural, Japan is still pretty much homogenous and ethnic in its identity. Why is it the case? Doesn't Japan, being a similarly democratic and progressive society, have the same type of postwar guilt as European nations?
Japan is not homogeneous and what the fuck does it mean for a country to be "ethnic"? Go jump off a bridge.
>>1026637
1.5% of their population is Korean/Chinese though.
Because guilt culture is a white thing.
Did some Templars really worship Baphomet? Why?
>Super religious organisation
>One of the Main motivations to join is religion
>People who can write and such who can send letters away to the pope
I am more curious on how exactly they were supposed to keep it secret.
>>1042243
What exactly is the baphomet?
>>1042260
>Pure biblical Christianity
The ones who believe in free faith or the ones who don't? Or maybe the ones who good deds may affect your afterlife or those that don't? Or is it maybe those that think the Church can work together with the state or not?
Enlighten me on how Romanians came to be, /his/. To me, they're as much of an enigma as Albanians.
I can understand a predominantly Thracian heritage genetically with some Slavic admixture here and there, but here's my dilemma:
A portion of Dacia(which Romanians claim as their 'birthplace') was occupied for a relatively short amount of time, after which the natives were left on their own. The native Dacian elite was slaughtered by the Romans and the Roman administration retreated, so they had neither a priestly caste nor an aristocracy left.
To me, in such a scenario, the most logical outcome would be for the Romanized populations to be assimilated in time, not spread further amongst the 'free Dacians' as stated in Romanian historiography.
And in regards to the Slavic migrations, I presume that the Romanians formed as a result of the intermingling between predominantly Slavophone communities with Latinophone(Vlach) shepherds. Yet I can't understand why would the Slavophones be assimilated by those shepherds - they were a minority, they were less prestigious and they were less civilized(with Slavs having settled, agricultural communities, while Vlachs being nomadic).
And their whole early medieval culture seems to be a carbon copy of Orthodox Bulgarian culture. So put rather bluntly, am I safe to assume that they are 'incomplete Bulgarians' because of the weaker influence north of the Danube of the Second Bulgarian Tsardom?
>>1032156
Before the emergence of the material beings lived the eteral principle. In the eternity preceding material emergence it existed as necessary. Eventually this principle concentrated into a point which emenated towards increasing materiality. The outer ring eventually contained what came to be known as the Cosmos.
In this realm lives the immortal mortal who shackled us to our current material shells. Once, when considering Earth's composition, he accidently consumed a chunk of cosmic debris, he subsequently defecating on South-Eastern Europe. This chunk of feces, and the flies drawn to it, came to be known, respectively, as Romania and Romanians.
>>1032156
Their language is a Romance language, and I feel like they would have generated their own identity especially with their resistance against the Ottomans.
>>1032156
>have a last name that is Romanian in origin
>illiterate Romanian peasant great grandfather who was 14 and could not speak English when he immigrated butchered it horribly when anglicizing it
Post maps.
Everyone greentext your ancestry
>paternal grandma is a descendant of the prophet Muhammad PBUH
>maternal grandma is also a descendant of the prophet Muhammad PBUH
>parents are cousin's
>Both grandfather's father was the Prince of the princely state of Rewari
>great great grandmother was the daughter of the last mughal emperor of india
>my great grandfather's grandfather is Tafuzzal Hussain Khan(Google him)
>his ancestor Sheikh Umar uddin came to India from Bukhara with the army of Shahab uddin of Ghor
>Sheikh Umar uddin was a descendant of Abu Bakr(the second Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate)
>lost everything after India and Pakistan separated
>live in Pakistan now
>be poor people living in europe
>get convinced to join a cult
>travel to a desert in north america
>proceed to be mediocre farmers
>attempt to do something else with life, go back to farming
>descendants get fucked over by economic collapses repeatedly
>the guy that doesn't gets to sit with the finger over the button during the cold war
>>1013356
Just remember that Jesus loves you, OP.
>dads ancestors fought for Austria during ww1 and Napoleon wars
>moms side ancestors were Finnish Jedi Knights
