KoldPT posted:

Legitimately powerful image.

I Appreciate You posted:

Actually from the looks of it, that's an inoculation, which was different than the vaccine. An inoculation, specifically called a variolation at the time, was the placement of live smallpox into an open wound (typically after a few weeks of bleeding and mercury ingestion).

It was actually pretty reasonable to be against inoculation. An inoculated person basically got a milder case of smallpox, but while it was milder for them, they were still very contagious with the full strength smallpox. And because it was milder, the inoculated would often be out and about spreading their smallpox around.

So anti-variolation sentiment was more about "hey assholes, stop infecting our kids with smallpox" rather than "are freedoms."

Edit: Oops, didn't bother to read the caption. Cow pox inoculations were much, much safer and didn't cause contagiousness, but again, given what happened with variolation, the skepticism is, I think, understandable.

ymgve posted:

Also, it was six million Jews. If you count the others, it adds up to eleven million.

steinrokkan posted:

11 million? In the USSR alone, the occupation regime killed 16 - 18 million civilians.

quote:

When I left my home and my family
My mother said to me
"Son, it's not how many Germans you kill that counts
It's how many people you set free"

So I packed my bags, brushed my cap
Walked out into the world
Seventeen years old
Never kissed a girl

Took the train to Voronezh
That was as far as it would go
Changed my sacks for a uniform
Bit my lip against the snow

I prayed for mother Russia
In the summer of '43
And as we drove the Germans back
I really believed that God was listening to me

We howled into Berlin
Tore the smoking buildings down
Raised the red flag high
Burnt the reichstag brown

I saw my first American
And he looked a lot like me
He had the same kinda farmer's face
Said he'd come from some place called Hazard, Tennessee

Then the war was over
My discharge papers came
Me and twenty hundred others
Went to Stettiner for the train
Kiev, said the commissar

There your own way home
I never got to Kiev
We never came by home
Train went north to the Taiga

We were stripped and marched in file
Up the great Siberian road
For miles and miles and miles and miles
Dressed in stripes and tatters

In a gulag left to die
All because Comrade Stalin was scared that
We'd become too westernized
Used to love my country

Used to be so young
Used to believe that life was
The best song ever sung
I would have died for my country
In 1945
But now only one thing remains

Mans posted:

Are you seriously saying the USSR killed 16-18 million people in Poland? And if you're talking about Holodomor and the Gulags how is it an occupation regime?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqG9Ih1ZmeI

Trench_Rat posted:

allegedly painted by Hitler

Trench_Rat posted:

allegedly painted by Hitler

Democrazy posted:

Hitler should have been an architect. The relationship between him and Albert Speer is one of the more personal and truly illuminating parts of him.

Mr. Sunshine posted:

quote:

e: Not to mention that the paintings depict a British Mark I tank supposedly in German service, and a German soldier still in pickelhaube by 1918.

vickser posted:

The man was definitely artistically inclined. He wasn't somebody who just liked to paint, the man was gifted.

vickser posted:

The man was definitely artistically inclined. He wasn't somebody who just liked to paint, the man was gifted.


WWI is fascinating, partly because the savagery and iconoclasm of the whole ordeal transformed old Franco-Prussian era armies composed of soldiers that looked (in 1914) like this


into armies composed of soldiers that looked (in 1918) much more like what we would see in twenty years time:

Humboldt squid posted:

One of the first engagements of ww1 was between a german patrol and a squad of british(?) lancers on horseback. Lancers, with actual, literal lances. World war 1 also saw the last wartime use of the crossbow. It's mind blowing to think of how different the world was less than a century ago.

quote:

The 1st Krechowiecki Lancers deployed to the left and began to move up the slight incline at a trot in the direction of the Bolsheviks. As we came over the ridge, we caught sight of a huge wave of Budionny's cavalry descending from the opposite ridge into the dip, also at a trot. The Bolsheviks had the setting sun in their eyes, and probably could not make out the strength of their opponent. Both sides slowed to a walk and came to a standstill facing each other. A colorfully-dressed rider galloped out of the swarm of Cossacks on a magnificent black charger and, waving his sabre above his head, shouted:
'Well, my Lords! I'm Cossack Kuzma Kruchkov. Who'll take me on?' At this, a murmur ran along the row of officers standing in front of the 1st Lancers. 'Raciecki! Yes, Raciecki!' Captain Raciecki (the best swordsman in the regiment) passed his sabre to his left hand to make the sign of the cross with his right and then began to move towards Kruchkov at a walk. Kruchkov sprang towards him at a gallop. Raciecki parried the first cut, aimed at his head, and himself slashed fiercely to the right and down, cutting Kruchkov open from the collar to the waist. At this, a howl went up among the Cossacks. 'He's dead! Dead! The Devil!' they shouted, and the whole lot turned tail as our regiment began to charge.

Highspeeddub posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf5YxhH5CZY

Humboldt squid posted:

One of the first engagements of ww1 was between a german patrol and a squad of british(?) lancers on horseback. Lancers, with actual, literal lances. World war 1 also saw the last wartime use of the crossbow. It's mind blowing to think of how different the world was less than a century ago.

Trench_Rat posted:

allegedly painted by Hitler

NEED TOILET PAPER posted:

Hell, in some places the practice of horse-mounted soldiers didn't die out until well after the war. For example, this happened during the 1919-1920 Polish-Soviet War:

Joementum posted:

Deceitful Penguin posted:

Why are you showing us your old Christmas cards? Is it from someone important?

Joementum posted:

Sir John Falstaff posted:

Polish lancers, 1936:



Despite the impression sometimes given of noble (or stupid, depending) but futile Polish cavalry charges on Nazi tanks, however, the Polish cavalry in WWII were actually used as essentially mobile infantry or reconnaissance units, armed with modern weaponry, that generally dismounted before engaging the enemy. They were actually fairly useful, under the circumstances.

Joementum posted:

Not anymore.

Trench_Rat posted:

allegedly painted by Hitler

Humboldt squid posted:

One of the first engagements of ww1 was between a german patrol and a squad of british(?) lancers on horseback. Lancers, with actual, literal lances. World war 1 also saw the last wartime use of the crossbow. It's mind blowing to think of how different the world was less than a century ago.

Democrazy posted:

Hitler should have been an architect. The relationship between him and Albert Speer is one of the more personal and truly illuminating parts of him.

AlexanderCA posted:

Disturbingly sobering isn't the words I'd use, "I will burn in hell for laughing at this" maybe.

quote:

Autonome Nationalisten (“Autonomous Nationalists,” abbreviated AN) are German, Dutch and to a lesser degree Flemishneo-Nazis who have adopted some of the far left’s traditional dress (black clothing, Che Guevara T-shirts, keffiyehs), symbolism, and tactics (black bloc). They began to appear in 2003–4 and are more violent than other members of the far right. The AN are ideologically inspired by Strasserism. Mareš writes that they are “a strategic concept, organization and subculture – all three terms are possible for the designation of this phenomenon.” In 2008 Germany’s Autonomous Nationalists were estimated to number approximately 400 people, 10% of the country’s neo-Nazis.

Their emergence was controversial within the German far right, both because some older activists objected to their “leftist” image and because the National Democratic Party of Germany feared they would complicate its efforts to take part in mainstream politics. Also controversial is that Autonome Nationalisten have occasionally expressed sympathy for Islamic extremism, as well as Hezbollah and Hamas for their opposition to Zionism and what is deemed “American imperialism”. Autonome Nationalists have also been seen wearing t-shirts depicting Osama bin Laden.

Similar groups have also appeared in some Eastern European countries, beginning with the Czech Republic and Greece, but their impact in those areas has been limited.

Deceitful Penguin posted:

Wow, you knew Not-Palin? That's pretty neat.
http://vimeo.com/65886512
This is from the Green Walk, where 5K people (yours truly included) marched to show we cared about the environment to the now Right-Wing government. Was another protest yesterday where a thousand signatures were presented to the PM.

ShortStack posted:

I don't think I've ever met a self described libertarian that wasn't some sort of awful crypto-fascist under a thin veneer of ~free market capitalism~.

System Metternich posted:

Even her old christmas cards are creepy as gently caress (it's Bachmann, btw). Is she trying to pimp her children out?

Mr. Sunshine posted:

Seems unlikely. Though he was no great artist, the style looks much too simple to be Hitler. Here's a number of contemporary paintings by the man:




e: Not to mention that the paintings depict a British Mark I tank supposedly in German service, and a German soldier still in pickelhaube by 1918.