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XMNN posted:Is there any better way to show respect for the word of God than by printing it on millions of disposable fast food wrappers? toilet paper
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PittTheElder posted:Has anyone here ever eaten horse? I've heard it's kinda gross anyway. I eat it from time to time. Why on earth would it be gross? It's actually similar to beef both in taste and in the sense that a lot depends on the quality, preparation and seasoning. So if you ever get the chance to try a horse steak at a good steakhouse, go for it, it can be delicious.
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Hogge Wild posted:US didn't. They just cut diplomatic relations in -44. The person who made the map probably didn't know about it, or then he's thinking about the Great Northern War where modern US was part of UK and modern Finland was part of Sweden. -44 = 44 bc right?
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Kopijeger posted:So occupied, in fact, that the occupiers even provided them with military equipment: The swastika had been the insignia of the Finnish air force since 1918, 2 yeas before the German nazi party adopted it.
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Krokerik posted:The swastika had been the insignia of the Finnish air force since 1918, 2 yeas before the German nazi party adopted it. The evidence of the Finnish-German alliance is the German-manufactured Stug and Bf109 in Finnish service, not the Swastika. btw, nobody implies the Finland was a Nazi state, they kept an arms-length alliance to fight the Soviets.
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Aug 13, 2015 08:12
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There are probably more nazis in Finland now than then 
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Krokerik posted:The swastika had been the insignia of the Finnish air force since 1918, 2 yeas before the German nazi party adopted it. Note that I wrote "equipment", not "emblems". I know perfectly well that the Von Rosen cross is unrelated to the NSDAP emblem. The point was that the German government wouldn't have provided assault guns, tanks and fighters to an occupied country. Kopijeger fucked around with this message at 08:28 on Aug 13, 2015 |
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Aug 13, 2015 08:23
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To be fair, they did kick them out later. "as a thanks for not demonstrating a brotherhood of arms".
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Molentik posted:To be fair, they did kick them out later. To be fair, they may have needed some slight convincing. 
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Fun fact, our war against Nazis running away in the north is the only war Finland has won as an independent nation. Seriously, Finland's story in WWII is all magnificent bastardy and backstabbing, I don't know where we got the reputation of being honest.
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DarkCrawler posted:Fun fact, our war against Nazis running away in the north is the only war Finland has won as an independent nation. Finland also won the war against the working class in 1918.
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Hogge Wild posted:Finland also won the war against the working class in 1918. I thought that was Germany
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Count Roland posted:Uhhhh yeah. Thailand was allied with Japan in WW2. Not because they were particularly into it mind you, they were surrounded by the Japanese as all of the colonies in Southeast Asia fell to them and strong-armed into an alliance.
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If I'm remembering it right, Thailand declared war on the US but the US didn't respond which is pretty funny. I'm assuming Somalia on that map is for the whole 1993 thing. Seems like another big gray area. I guess Afghanistan isn't labelled because only two other countries recognized the Taliban as the legitimate rulers. Chemtrailologist fucked around with this message at 13:48 on Aug 13, 2015 |
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What do Canadians say when they make up girlfriends? "Oh, I have a girlfriend, she lives in… uh… gently caress."
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TinTower posted:What do Canadians say when they make up girlfriends? "Oh, I have a girlfriend, she lives in… uh… gently caress." Greenland.
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Didn't Finland switch allegiances two or three times depending on who was not fighting the soviets at the given time?
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Freedom for Quebec, or death! (Death delivered by Russian thermonuclear missiles TM)
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ZShakespeare posted:Didn't Finland switch allegiances two or three times depending on who was not fighting the soviets at the given time? They did, and ultimately they slipped out of the war with no repercussions. And even during the Cold War "Finlandization" became the term for describing a country sucking the dick of the superpower that currently had the most influence in the neighbourhood. In short, the Finns are the ultimate opportunists of the word. Though to be honest they managed to turn this into some good things, such as the 70's Helsinki declaration, as well as several latter Helsinki summits.
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davebo posted:In and Out is the one that puts bible passages on their wrappers and cups right? I had never been until a friend insisted we go to one while in Vegas and their fries were pretty mediocre. No one goes to In-N-Out for their fries. No one. (okay maybe for animal-style but even then...)
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ComradeCosmobot posted:No one goes to In-N-Out for their fries. No one. I'd go for anything if it was served animal-style.
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steinrokkan posted:They did, and ultimately they slipped out of the war with no repercussions. I'm not sure Finland suffered no repercussions. 
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Finland and Germany were co-belligerents. European countries that were allies of the Reich in order of most compromised to least compromised (Not including countries they made up like Pavelic's Croatia or the Slovak State) Vichy France Hungary Romania Finland Bulgaria Yugoslavia Course that list should include the USSR but it's hard to place. What I really don't get about that map is why Slovenia is not on there? It was part of Austria-Hungary and at least some of it was an annexed part of the Reich. They even had their own little home guard in WW2 that got more and more deep into the poo poo with the Nazis and then all got murdered by Tito.
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Is anyone actually calling for this now? I looked briefly but only saw mention of it from 3 years ago.
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After the successful invasion of their country, probably a majority of the French population thought a German victory in the war was inevitable and that the Vichy regime would at least manage to safeguard some French sovereignty. It was widely accepted by at least the right wing as the legitimate continuation of the pre-war regime. There was little popular resistance even in the occupied part of France until Germany invaded the Soviet Union and the communists started stirring things up. The Free French forces, being non-communist patriots dedicated to fighting Germany, were initially a handful of idealists that lacked widespread support and couldn't even get the majority of French colonies on their side. All of this is fairly understandable given the circumstances, but it is questionable that they present themselves as one of the 'victors' of WWII. Basically, if not for Charles de Gaulle, France would be viewed as an Axis country. That's the main reason he has near-godlike status in France.
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cheerfullydrab posted:Finland and Germany were co-belligerents. What are you referring to with Yugoslavia there? Nedić's Serbia was much more of a "made up country" than NDH. Yugoslavia was on the right side from the very start to the bitter end of the war, even the loving Chetniks were anti-Axis despite their later tendency of tenuous collaboration when it helped them kill communists and other ethnicities, and even so there were some serious splits within 'em. On the other hand the Yugoslav partisans were the most organized resistance movement in WWII, making the French look like a joke. e: even if Chetniks were unquestionably axis allies I cannot see how you can claim they somehow represent all of Yugoslavia was Reich allied e2: oh, are you referring to us signing the Tripartite act? because a coup annulled that literally 2 days after it was signed. SaltyJesus fucked around with this message at 08:00 on Aug 14, 2015 |
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Jaramin posted:
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steinrokkan posted:They did, and ultimately they slipped out of the war with no repercussions. There were 100k dead. Loss of land which included Viipuri, Finland's second largest city at the time. 300 000 000 dollars (of the time) worth of war reparations, which Finland actually payed. Took up to 16% of the budged for years. No repercussions, sure. If "opportunism" is doing whatever you can not to be occupied by the Soviet Union it sounds like a pretty good policy.
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cheerfullydrab posted:Finland and Germany were co-belligerents. Co-belligerent was a wartime propaganda term used in Finland during the war to try smooth things over with western allies and after war in more nationalistic histography meant to distance Finland from German atrocities and war aims. Finland was allied with Germany during 41 - 44. There were some 200 000 German troops in Lapland that co-operated with Finnish military and protected the northern front, Finland imported war material and food stuffs from Germany and atleast until Stalingrad higher echelons were betting on German victory in east and the formation of Greater Finland on the ruins of SU.
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Phlegmish posted:Basically, if not for Charles de Gaulle, France would be viewed as an Axis country. 
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France seems to like its popular generals swooping in to save the hilariously broken political system from itself. Bonus points if they're not even very good generals
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HookShot posted:Yeah, McDonalds tastes pretty universally the same everywhere. This is a few days old, but I have to comment on this. A few years ago Japan (and much of Asia) did a promotion item called "shaka shaka chicken" which was the best fast food thing I've ever tasted. If anyone can tell me where I can find some now, I would be thrilled, because it was really loving good. McDonalds and others overseas are, in my experience, a little better in quality than the US but still not worth it.
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Not sure I'd eat something called shaka shaka chicken.
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:
Syria is the same as western europe, a reliable map.
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Count Roland posted:Syria is the same as western europe, a reliable map. Maybe it predates 2011?
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SaltyJesus posted:What are you referring to with Yugoslavia there? Nedić's Serbia was much more of a "made up country" than NDH. Yugoslavia was on the right side from the very start to the bitter end of the war, even the loving Chetniks were anti-Axis despite their later tendency of tenuous collaboration when it helped them kill communists and other ethnicities, and even so there were some serious splits within 'em. On the other hand the Yugoslav partisans were the most organized resistance movement in WWII, making the French look like a joke. I am referring to Prince Paul signing on to the Axis and immediately getting overthrown. He got a pretty good deal, no movement of Reich troops through Yugoslavia at all, which is why I put Yugoslavia down as least compromised. Also I understand the NDH was less of a made-up state than Nedic's Serbia, but its borders were pretty ridiculous and it couldn't stand on its own. I could talk about these things for days, WWII Yugoslavia was such a ridiculous fractal of horribleness and it took me years to get everything straight, from the Domobranci to the partisan war against the Italians in Montenegro and everything in between.
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doverhog posted:There were 100k dead. Loss of land which included Viipuri, Finland's second largest city at the time. 300 000 000 dollars (of the time) worth of war reparations, which Finland actually payed. Took up to 16% of the budged for years. No repercussions, sure. Ultimately that's very little for for a belligerent country of the WWII, especially one that had the bright idea of invading the USSR like a champ. Phlegmish posted:After the successful invasion of their country, probably a majority of the French population thought a German victory in the war was inevitable and that the Vichy regime would at least manage to safeguard some French sovereignty. It was widely accepted by at least the right wing as the legitimate continuation of the pre-war regime. There was little popular resistance even in the occupied part of France until Germany invaded the Soviet Union and the communists started stirring things up. The Free French forces, being non-communist patriots dedicated to fighting Germany, were initially a handful of idealists that lacked widespread support and couldn't even get the majority of French colonies on their side. Also this idea that the Communist underground was happy to stay passive under Nazi rule under 1941 is a myth that has been thotoughly debunked. The Communists were purged as much as any other politically dangerous group in the Third Reich, and their lack of apparent activity was the product of loyalty to Stalin's doctrine of fighting fascism, not of localized cowardry. steinrokkan fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Aug 15, 2015 |
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