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Ensign Expendable posted:BT tank drivers were rigidly strapped into their seats when they were doing acrobatics like that, I wonder if the driver of this tank was as lucky. I'm not sure "acrobatics" is the first term that comes to mind for me here
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ilmucche posted:When I read GULAG instead of Gulag it makes me think of GURPS. Maybe the prisoners should've rolled a better character, or invested in sneak so they could leave. If I could choose between GULAG, modern American prison, or GURPS, I'd go with the American prison.
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Nenonen posted:Why is the mast bent like that, or is the rear tower actually a Dalek? It folds down to get under a bridge that it has to cross under to get in and out of its home port.
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Clarence posted:Let's find out what 2/Lt. Wilding (he of the long range sniping of yesterday) is up to now - My maternal grandmother’s maiden name was Prestwich and it’s my middle name because of it. I dunno why this makes me extra sad but 
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SeanBeansShako posted:Thank gently caress, content! tevery best knows a whole lot bout an underserved area, and does good work
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HEY GUNS posted:tevery best knows a whole lot bout an underserved area, and does good work I feel like their username was something else until a minute ago
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Clarence posted:Let's find out what 2/Lt. Wilding (he of the long range sniping of yesterday) is up to now -
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Bleh, looks like I've really got to stop slacking and learn French. So amphetamines! I know Nazis past and present are famous for taking heroic amounts of speed, and that it was common during the time period, but are there any interesting anecdotes about the Red Army? Any other drugs, besides the vodka ration, or were they reserved for the athletes? Huh. I really hope it's just correlation and not causation between Nazis and amphetamines, it'd really suck if the alt-right was caused by Ritalin 
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Rockopolis posted:Bleh, looks like I've really got to stop slacking and learn French. I don't know about the Soviets, but the USAAF and USN were both enthusiastic users of amphetamines. I don't know when or if they stopped that, but the US military in general is full of stories about guys hopped up on combat uppers. I know the Soviets had some kind of notoriously awful sub-ditch-weed-grade tobacco that they smoked copiously.
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Sep 14, 2018 00:09
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If you’re already an English speaker, French is arguably the easiest language to learn.
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Cyrano4747 posted:I don't know about the Soviets, but the USAAF and USN were both enthusiastic users of amphetamines. I don't know when or if they stopped that, but the US military in general is full of stories about guys hopped up on combat uppers. Makhorka. Rough tobacco that rest of the world used as pesticide, Red Army used as ration cigarettes. Grown in russia and ukraine.
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Ardent Communist posted:I was trying to. I already said I feel an obligation to defend communist states, both their mistakes and their triumphs. Don't loving bring them up if you don't have something nice to say, and I won't feel the need to post in response. "Mistakes" like genociding millions.
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Valtonen posted:Makhorka. Rough tobacco that rest of the world used as pesticide, Red Army used as ration cigarettes. Grown in russia and ukraine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotiana_rustica It's a hardier but worse tasting variety. And the reason it's used for pesticide is because it has more nicotine.
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Valtonen posted:Makhorka. Rough tobacco that rest of the world used as pesticide, Red Army used as ration cigarettes. Grown in russia and ukraine. IIRC, Ordinary tobacco of those days was around 1% nicotine (modern strains go as high as 3%, in a well-known tactic to increase addiction). This sort averages 9%.
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Women would be issued chocolate instead of mahorka. I think I would go for the chocolate as well.
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Where do you get chocolate, in the Soviet Union, during the Great Patriotic War? South America, Africa...is there somewhere in Central Asia that Cacao grows? Edit Chocolate? At this time of year? At this time of the war? In this part of the world? Localized entirely within your women's rations? Rockopolis fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Sep 14, 2018 |
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To confirm, that Overlord movie is JJ Abrams doing paratroopers in WW2 vs Nazi super-science.
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Grand Fromage posted:It folds down to get under a bridge that it has to cross under to get in and out of its home port. Wouldn't it be easier to bring down the hostile bridge with missiles and bombs
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Rockopolis posted:Where do you get chocolate, in the Soviet Union, during the Great Patriotic War? South America, Africa...is there somewhere in Central Asia that Cacao grows? The US sent over a huge amount of chocolate.
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Ensign Expendable posted:Women would be issued chocolate instead of mahorka. I think I would go for the chocolate as well. How much pesticides does cheap chocolate contain, anyway...
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Cythereal posted:To confirm, that Overlord movie is JJ Abrams doing paratroopers in WW2 vs Nazi super-science. Lets go Delta Green cinematic universe!
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Hunterhr posted:Lets go Delta Green cinematic universe! I mean I was going to say that it's good to see Wolfenstein get a big budget movie but I like your idea more.
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Zorak of Michigan posted:Having seen Intrepid in New York last month, I've been thinking a lot about aircraft carriers lately. Is it my imagination, or did everything get dull once the supercarrier template with the angle deck and the catapults was established? Even Ford just tries to make incremental improvements on an old template. Eh, airports are kinda boring and samey too when all you have to look at is the runways, a maintenance shed, and a control tower. 
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Xiahou Dun posted:If you’re already an English speaker, French is arguably the easiest language to learn. I'm curious why you would say that. In my personal experience Spanish is easier to learn (definitely when it comes to pronunciation!); in terms of linguistic similarity I'd have thought Dutch would be closer.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Maybe they should have used the S.T.A.L.I.N.I.S.T ruleset instead. You mean Kulaks & Kommissars?
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feedmegin posted:I'm curious why you would say that. In my personal experience Spanish is easier to learn (definitely when it comes to pronunciation!); in terms of linguistic similarity I'd have thought Dutch would be closer. Anecdotally l, I’ve taken classes in French, Spanish, and German and German was a lot easier for me to pick up. It’s the I my one that I got reasonably proficient with.
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On the subject of Extremely Dedicated Communists Exactly how badly compromised/pro-Soviet was British intelligence and the upper echelons of government in the late 40s-early 50s? All I know is what I researched a long time ago for a study on the RR Nene, and I also watched Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy at least twice.
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As I am currently sliding around the RN/WW2 sides of my always growing collection of books I am kind of curious now about the interwar history and state of the Royal Navy.
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I think for Canadians French seems easier because you have all the unconscious exposure thanks to the language laws, particularly in those critical early years.
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Very small parts of Canada actually speak French to an appreciable degree. Your average south Ontarian knows roughly gently caress all French, despite having all the bilingual packaging.
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Ensign Expendable posted:Very small parts of Canada actually speak French to an appreciable degree. Your average south Ontarian knows roughly gently caress all French, despite having all the bilingual packaging. aye I’m from Newfoundland which had the lowest bilingual rates of any province iirc and my francais goes from non-existent to embarrassing. I do know the words for lots of eg foods because of bilingual printing though.
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Free French should be the easiest, much of the vocabulary is loan words like le Springfield, le Sherman etc.
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Nenonen posted:Free French should be the easiest, much of the vocabulary is loan words like le Springfield, le Sherman etc. Well you get what you pay for
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le cercueil enflammé
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The section of the US State Department that teaches languages breaks them down into categories by ease to learn for US native english speakers.quote:Category I: 23-24 weeks (575-600 hours)
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quote:Cantonese (Chinese) Yeah - I can't wrap my brain around that one.
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Nenonen posted:Free French should be the easiest, much of the vocabulary is loan words like le Springfield, le Sherman etc. To be fair, that's just paying it back, virtually all the WW1 American Expeditionary Force's equipment heavier than a rifle was given to them by the French.
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feedmegin posted:I'm curious why you would say that. In my personal experience Spanish is easier to learn (definitely when it comes to pronunciation!); in terms of linguistic similarity I'd have thought Dutch would be closer. French pronunciation is actually really straightforward. It’s unintuitive when you’re first learning but there’s no tomb/bomb/comb poo poo. Anglophones also get tripped up by sounds they apparently can’t differentiate, like eu vs u.
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SeanBeansShako posted:As I am currently sliding around the RN/WW2 sides of my always growing collection of books I am kind of curious now about the interwar history and state of the Royal Navy. There are essentially two historical viewpoints on this; an older one espoused by authors like Arthur Marder and Stephen Roskill (the two big authors writing on British naval history in the period from the end of WWII through to the 1980s), and a revisionist viewpoint that's more commonly put forward by authors today. The older view is that the RN in the interwar period was overly focused on re-fighting Jutland, developing tactics for fighting and winning a massive fleet action. As such, they ignored the lessons of WWI on anti-submarine warfare and failed to predict the impact of things like aircraft carriers and amphibious operations. The more modern viewpoint is that the RN made sensible, if conservative, developments in areas like ASW and aviation, particularly given the thinking that prevailed at the time; for example, the RN's focus on heavy AA armaments and deck armour as defence against aircraft in its building programmes in the 1930s makes sense given the fact that without radar, the low-performance biplane fighters commonly used on carriers at the time could not effectively catch an incoming bomber before it made its attack. Similarly, the RN's ASW doctrine (lightly escorted convoys to protect merchant ships supported by hunting groups to kill U-boats, as well as a focus on protecting shipping in the waters around the UK) was based on that which had worked well in 1917-18, but failed to predict the Kriegsmarine's use of wolfpacks, nor the Fall of France. While the hunting groups were disbanded to provide extra escorts for convoys in 1940-43, they would be reformed once sufficient escorts were available, and proved highly effective at killing U-boats. If people are interested, I can go into more detail on this later.
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