Tell me about Greece in WW2
just anything really, I'm curious about them
>>558859
They were a nation with old equipment and few resources, but chockful of experienced veterans who knew exactly how to fight in their country and took all the advantages of the situation in a very admirable way. They also had a lot of brit resource support, but really they should have committed men if they wanted to help. As it was, the intervention was a total waste of effort for the brits, so much that they even had to spawn the propaganda meme "we slowed down the invasion of Russia" which has no historical basis whatsoever, since the delay had to do with eastern european infrastructure and not the necessity to commit resources to other fronts.
On the italian side of the situation, you have a bunch of mostly untrained and badly equipped conscripts sent to die in the hills without a real invasion plan, because like most italian offensives in ww2, the decision to invade Greece was just a panicked attempt at keeping a shred of a check to german expansionism rather than a calculated effort at enlarging Italy, so it's not surprising that it ended in shit.
Spearmen in hills can take down helicopters.
>These incarnate Devils laid waste and desolate Four Hundred miles of most Fertile Land, containing vast and wonderful Provinces, most spatious and large Valleys surrounded with Hills, forty Miles in Length, and many Towns richly abounding in Gold and Silver. I judge that they by new invented and unusual Torments ruinated four or five Millions of Souls and sent them all to Hell.
>At their Entry into a certain Village, they were welcomed with great Joy and Exultation: The Spaniards departing thence, a Captain related to the Superior Tyrant returned thither to rob this People, and pierced their King through with a Lance, of which Wound he dyed upon the Spot, and committed several other Cruelties into the bargain.
>The Chief Tyrant caused many Indians (above Two Hundred as 'tis noised abroad) whom he summoned to appear before him out of another town, or else, who came voluntarily to pay their Respects to him, to have their Noses and Lips to the very Beard, cut off; and thus in this grievous and wretched Condition, the Blood gushing out of their Wounds, returned them back, to give an Infallible Testimony of the Works and Miracles wrought by these Preachers and Ministers baptized in the Catholic Faith.
>I also affirm that I saw with these Eyes of mine the Spaniards for no other reason, but only to gratify their bloody mindedness, cut off the Hands, Noses, and Ears, both of Indians and Indianesses, and that in so many places and parts, that it would be too prolix and tedious to relate them. Nay, I have seen the Spaniards let loose their Dogs upon the Indians to bait and tear them in pieces, and such a Number of Villages burnt by them as cannot well be discovered: Farther this is a certain Truth, that they snatched Babes from the Mothers Embraces, and taking hold of their Arms threw them away as far as they would from them. They committed many other Cruelties, which shook me with Terror at the very sight of them.
>>558838
> Creates a Christianity thread, copy pasta's text about the Spanish
>>559000
I'm pretty sure OP's quote was from a priest.
What's your favorite Bible verse and why?
What's your favorite book of the Bible?
Have you had any revelations or epiphanies about Christianity lately? Please share.
Do you speak Russian?
If no, why not?
>>558837
I'm not Russian, i don't need to learn russian.
What a stupid thread is that?
>>558837
I'm learning Ukrainian
I speak a slavic language, and I've been thinking about attempting it. But it's honestly annoying, bunch of same words with different meanings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LsrkWDCvxg
How does this make you feel /his/?
Found this gem in my youtube recomendations.
Don't know much about Alexander the Great, but Green exaggerates a bit on the influence of the technology at the time. Having the right leader at the right time is damn important, the tec is as well of course, but imo both are what contributed to the success of the Macedonians and they shouldn't be separated.
>>558579
Alexander and Frederick are both examples of fuccbois who took their father's hard drilled army for a walk and became famous because of it.
>>558907
>implying marching an army from macedonia to india in the BCE is just a walk
Pls.
What were common forms of entertainment in the Soviet Union?
drinking yourself to death and hoping to wake up in different place
squatting with the mates
>you will never be as perfect as Christ
Why even bother?
>>558391
That's not the point?
>>558391
Dude was a failed messiah, like a bunch of other Jews before him and after him.
>you will never be a country hick that takes up a life of begging for food and claiming to be a god only for the judean authorities to call your bluff and execute me in the most horrific fashion imaginable
What do atheists think of Jesus? I can totally understand understand hating his followers, a lot of terrible things were done in his name, but surely no one dislikes the actual dude, do they?
>>558286
Never met him desu senpai
>>558286
He seems bro tier, only a few disagreements with some points, i'd think everyone should have this with anyone though.
He was a pretty cool guy
I'd smoke a bowl with him and Buddha
Why did no Communist revolution happen in Germany, as Marx and other thinkers have specifically predicted?
Because stalin was retarded and would rather sabotage the weimar republic and allow nazis to take control over having a competing self called socialist state.
>>558105
Communism only got popular where people were serfs
>>558105
>Why did no Communist revolution happen in Germany, as Marx and other thinkers have specifically predicted?
>Rosa Luxemburg
Where did the "Jews controlled the slave trade" /pol/ meme come from?
>>558057
Probably in the South. At first Jews were proportionally over represented in the formation of the trade but eventually their influence waned considerably
>>558057
It's partially true.
You can find numerous jewish slave traders forming relatively big proportion of overall slave traders "population" when compared to their overall population compared to Europe's population.
Except you can also find similar proportions when you look at soap merchants or limber merchants. Any merchants in fact.
>>558070
Not after 1750 really. Jews were involved in the Spanish and Portuguese slave trade because they went to their American colonies following the inquisition. Once the Brits and Dutch came along, Jewish influence was pretty irrelevant.
How did Christianity lose its spirituality?
Today we have mega churches complete with rock bands. Street preachers who use Christianity as a means to push their own personal and political agenda. People believe that churches are the temples of God, instead of the human body as they used to believe. People today believe the Bible, a book written over thousands of years by different people using different languages is the "word of God" instead of believing that Jesus is the word of God as many Catholics still do today.
Early Christianity was replete with various philosophical and Gnostic ideas possibly influenced by various other religions including Buddhism, Hinduism. It was well understood by Early Christians that there were numerous "mysteries" which Jesus was the key to unlocking, but today Jesus is treated more as a santa claus figure but the human condition is seen as disgusting, immoral and even evil.
>>558055
That's not what Jesus looked like.
This is what Jesus looked like.
I usually don't like simplistic, reductionist explanations for social phenomena, but in this insurance it's true - it all boils down to the Protestant Reformation.
While Catholicism was arguably already more legalistic and life-affirming than its eastern counterparts, it still had a strong mystical tradition and the official dogma was that God was something to be yearned for, not some happy force in the sky that granted all your wishes.
When the Reformation came about however, the floodgates were opened to far more materialist interpretations of the Bible and suddenly spirituality became about finding confirmation for your actions instead of the intense inner struggle it's meant to be, and as a result after several centuries of theological refinement you get a situation where Jesus is supposed to make you "feel good" rather than be used as the guide for subtle spiritual growth that he is. This in turn influenced the rise of secularism and the decline of church authority on moral matters, leaving us in the situation we have today.
It's a shame, really, genuine Christian spirituality looks nothing like the simplistic legal doctrine that is so readily destroyed by fedora tippers, and had it remained it's mystical elements then a lot more fence-sitters today would be inclined to try it out, rather than reject it on conditions that don't even fully reflect the faith.
If anyone is interested in further research for this phenomenon and answers as to how to practice their own spiritual life, I suggest looking into Pastor Anderson, Barnabas Powell, and reading books on Christian Hermiticism.
satan obviously walks among the believers
Historically was the horn of africa more involved with Arabia or the rest of Africa?
The Horn was always an important middleman between India and the Mediterranean as well as traders all along the African coast.
>>558038
[desire to know more intensifies]
>>558043
Unfortunately pretty much nothing is known about pre-Islamic (aka Swahili) East Africa other than some Greek records saying "oh yeah sometimes we sail down there to trade stuff, here's a list of good cities to stop at".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azania
There's also "Cyeneum" mentioned which would be around South Sudan today, but I haven't been able to find much of anything at all about it, at least nothing that exists online.
The only real information on these places goes back to when Islam spread out there, but I don't know if it's genuinely because of lack of records, or just that very little of it exists online in English.
>"It is the same whether or not you forwarn them [the unbelievers], they will have no faith" (2:6). "God will mock them and keep them long in sin, blundering blindly along" (2:15). A fire "whose fuel is men and stones" awaits them (2:24). They will be "rewarded with disgrace in this world and with grievous punishment on the Day of Resurrection" (2:85). "God's curse be upon the infidels!" (2:89). "They have incurred God's most inexorable wrath. An igno-minious punishment awaits [them]" (2:90). "God is the enemy of the unbelievers" (2:98). "The unbelievers among the People of the Book [Christians and Jews], and the pagans, resent that any blessing should have been sent down to you from your Lord" (2:105). "They shall be held up to shame in this world and sternly punished in the hereafter" (2:114). "Those to whom We [God] have given the Book, and who read it as it ought to be read, truly believe in it; those that deny it shall assuredly be lost" (2:122). "[We] shall let them live awhile, and then shall drag them to the scourge of the Fire. Evil shall be their fate" (2:126). "The East and the West are God's. He guides whom He will to a straight path" (2:142). "Do not say that those slain in the cause of God are dead. They are alive, but you are not aware of them" (2:154). "But the infidels who die unbelievers shall incur the curse of God, the angels, and all men. Under it they shall remain for ever; their punishment shall not be lightened, nor shall they be reprieved" (2:162).
>"They shall sigh with remorse, but shall never come out of the Fire" (2:168). "The unbelievers are like beasts which, call out to them as one may, can hear nothing but a shout and a cry. Deaf, dumb, and blind, they understand nothing" (2:172). "Theirs shall be a woeful punishment" (2:175). "How stead-fastly they seek the Fire! That is because God has revealed the Book with truth; those that disagree about it are in extreme schism" (2:176). "Slay them wherever you find them. Drive them out of the places from which they drove you. Idolatry is worse than carnage. ... [I]f they attack you put them to the sword. Thus shall the unbe-lievers be rewarded: but if they desist, God is forgiving and merci-ful. Fight against them until idolatry is no more and God's religion reigns supreme. But if they desist, fight none except the evil-doers"(2:190-93). "Fighting is obligatory for you, much as you dis-like it. But you may hate a thing although it is good for you, and love a thing although it is bad for you. God knows, but you know not" (2:216). "They will not cease to fight against you until they force you to renounce your faith—if they are able. But whoever of you recants and dies an unbeliever, his works shall come to nothing in this world and in the world to come. Such men shall be the ten-ants of Hell, wherein they shall abide forever. Those that have embraced the Faith, and those that have fled their land and fought for the cause of God, may hope for God's mercy" (2:217-18). "God does not guide the evil-doers" (2:258). "God does not guide the unbelievers" (2:264). "The evil-doers shall have none to help them" (2:270). "God gives guidance to whom He will" (2:272).
>"Those that deny God's revelations shall be sternly punished; God is mighty and capable of revenge" (3:5). "As for the unbeliev-ers, neither their riches nor their children will in the least save them from God's judgment. They shall become fuel for the Fire" (3:10). "Say to the unbelievers: 'You shall be overthrown and driven into Hell—an evil resting place!'" (3:12). "The only true faith in God's sight is Islam.... He that denies God's revelations should know that swift is God's reckoning" (3:19). "Let the believers not make friends with infidels in preference to the faithful—he that does this has nothing to hope for from God—except in self-defense" (3:28). "Believers, do not make friends with any but your own people. They will spare no pains to corrupt you. They desire nothing but your ruin. Their hatred is evident from what they utter with their mouths, but greater is the hatred which their breasts conceal" (3:118). "If you have suffered a defeat, so did the enemy. We alter-nate these vicissitudes among mankind so that God may know the true believers and choose martyrs from among you (God does not love the evil-doers); and that God may test the faithful and annihi-late the infidels" (3:140). "Believers, if you yield to the infidels they will drag you back to unbelief and you will return headlong to perdi-tion....We will put terror into the hearts of the unbelievers.... The Fire shall be their home" (3:149-51).
>"Believers, do not follow the example of the infidels, who say of their brothers when they meet death abroad or in battle: 'Had they stayed with us they would not have died, nor would they have been killed.' God will cause them to regret their words. ... If you should die or be slain in the cause of God, God's forgiveness and His mercy would surely be better than all the riches they amass" (3:156). "Never think that those who were slain in the cause of God are dead. They are alive, and well provided for by their Lord; pleased with His gifts and rejoicing that those they left behind, who have not yet joined them, have nothing to fear or to regret; rejoicing in God's grace and bounty. God will not deny the faithful their reward" (3:169). "Let not the unbelievers think that We prolong their days for their own good. We give them respite only so that they may commit more grievous sins. Shameful pun-ishment awaits them" (3:178). "Those that suffered persecution for My sake and fought and were slain: I shall forgive them their sins and admit them to gardens watered by running streams, as a reward from God; God holds the richest recompense. Do not be deceived by the fortunes of the unbelievers in the land. Their prosperity is brief. Hell shall be their home, a dismal resting place" (3:195-96).
Educate me on Rasputin
It was a shame how he carried on.
>>557799
Moose cock, he cuckd a nation to revolution
>>557806
>horse dick
>communist propaganda and rumours
Imagine citing a tabloid, because that's literally the grade of evidence you have of an affair. She wanted to save her son.
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Why did everybody hate Alaska so much? How did the US manage to buy 660,000 square miles and then insist on doing fuck-all with it for over 90 years?
Why did Seward have to bribe congressmen to keep them from mass voting against the sale? I heard it quoted that politicians argued they might as well "give Russia the 7 million to repay her for her part in the revolutionary war" rather than being paid to accept responsibility for a huge frozen wasteland.
And why did Russia hate Alaska so much as to sell her off? Furs, meat, and local trade didn't make Alaska a metropolis, but it was still a lucrative business, and a foothold in trading and a doorway into the North American markets was hardly something to be thrown away at a whim. Were they really that afraid of anglos trying to conquer their territories that they would just try to get it over with before a fight? Britain seemed to want the territory less than anyone.
And why the hell did the Americans try their hardest to ignore it? there were European-populated cities in Sitka and Kodiak before even Chicago and Salt Lake City, but the US went almost a century without even opening one fucking post office.
Is there something I'm missing? Alaska is fucking great.
>>557785
Russia was about to lose Alaska to Japan so they got what they could for it by selling it to the United States at a bargain. There isn't any more to tell.
>>557785
TLDR, Russia was in serious debt from the Crimean War, and they had no ability to defend Alaska from any enemies, specifically the UK. It was also not that profitable.
Could the United States have won the Vietnam War if it had remained committed and public support hadn't dwindled?
Lack of public approval wasn't the reason they lost the war. They lost the war because there weren't any hard objectives, and because it was an unconventional war that they didn't know how to fight.
>>557758
This
>>557758
What would have been the best way to win the war?
