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Typo posted:imperial russia 1900s had modern day chinese rates of economic growth and industrialization until the civil war blew it all up Nicholas II was so bad that even bourgeois liberals recognized the need to overthrow him Fast growing? Yeah, St. Petersburg didn't exist as a major industrial center until Nicholas II but so what? This is like pointing out that a poor African country is the "fastest growing" because it gets one newly industrialized hub as a city
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Typo posted:imperial russia 1900s had modern day chinese rates of economic growth and industrialization until the civil war blew it all up the_tsarist_defender has logged on
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Aug 1, 2018 21:25
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I'm really glad the Bolsheviks were smart enough and brave enough to kill all those filthy royals.
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Just a couple years ago I found out a Von Habsburg was in the Austrian senate, which was a pretty sobering moment for me
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gradenko_2000 posted:FWIW I'm reading Neil Faulkner's A People's History of the Russian Revolution and I found it a lot more readable and approachable than Mieville's October I'm glad I'm not the only one who struggled with October. I'm not sure what it was but man it was a chore.
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Aug 2, 2018 03:16
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finally read this thread and lmao at the people who have only just discovered the depths of typo's virulent anticommunism
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killing kids rules
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it was pretty cool but no guillotine so it could've been cooler imo 7/10
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Aug 2, 2018 12:51
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so why hasn't Spain executed its monarchs? did they ever get close?
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Aug 2, 2018 12:56
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gradenko_2000 posted:so why hasn't Spain executed its monarchs? did they ever get close? i always devolve into a presidential dictatorship in vicky 1 so this reality is an anomaly
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gradenko_2000 posted:so why hasn't Spain executed its monarchs? did they ever get close? The cowardly king fled in 1931 so the socialists never got a shot.
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Former DILF posted:Just a couple years ago I found out a Von Habsburg was in the Austrian senate, which was a pretty sobering moment for me he kicked the poo poo out of ian paisely so i think he gets to live
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Aug 2, 2018 15:53
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Frog Act posted:anyone got a good book recommendation on the Russian revolutions and, as a follow up, on Stalin and the transition of power after his death? I'm fine with something academic, I never got to take any Russian history courses
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Aug 2, 2018 15:59
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gradenko_2000 posted:so why hasn't Spain executed its monarchs? did they ever get close? To be fair the first monarch they had after Franco restored the country as a democracy and helped keep it that way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_I_of_Spain
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Feldegast42 posted:To be fair the first monarch they had after Franco restored the country as a democracy and helped keep it that way Yes, and I know Spanish leftists who respect the monarchy because of it. But lol at being installed by Francoism.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/chipotlecorbu/status/1024897784531562496
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Frijolero posted:Yes, and I know Spanish leftists who respect the monarchy because of it. Lol at respecting monarchy It's cuckoldry from another era you might as well let the queen of England gently caress your wife
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Khrushchev wept when he read of Everett's many-worlds interpretation, and when his comrades inquired what ailed him, "Is it not worthy of tears," he said, "that, when the number of worlds is infinite, we have not yet killed even all the royals of this one" drat this owns hard
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Aug 2, 2018 17:54
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I know they had some really really bad problems, but sometimes I start to think maybe the Soviets were real good
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Aug 2, 2018 17:59
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I mean, like, unirocally, the whole Soviet government
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ikanreed posted:
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Aug 2, 2018 18:00
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thread needs this gif imo
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Aug 2, 2018 18:33
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i was born in the USSR and am legit proud we gunned down all our monarchs i use this to make fun of my EU friends that still have trophy monarchs
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Aug 2, 2018 19:48
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There really is no reason to have them. They could just give them a severance package and become republics overnight.
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Aug 2, 2018 19:49
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A "severance" package. 
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R. Guyovich posted:finally read this thread and lmao at the people who have only just discovered the depths of typo's virulent anticommunism iirc didn't he site a nazi source during an argument at one point? alsothere has issued a correction as of 19:57 on Aug 2, 2018 |
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:A "severance" package. severance of the head from the neck
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Instant Sunrise posted:severance of the head from the neck yes that was the joke
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbqQ6pHct64
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Former DILF posted:Just a couple years ago I found out a Von Habsburg was in the Austrian senate, which was a pretty sobering moment for me A college buddy of mine is distantly related to one of their (many) illegitimate lines. These days he unironically reposts things from Infowars, and was a dedicated gamergater when that was still big. alsothere posted:iirc didn't he site a nazi source during an argument at one point? Maybe? I mainly recall him using Roger Conquests deeply flawed numbers in the standard "communism killed literally everyone that ever lived" garbage.
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Captain_Maclaine posted:A college buddy of mine is distantly related to one of their (many) illegitimate lines. These days he unironically reposts things from Infowars, and was a dedicated gamergater when that was still big. It's scary that von Hapsburg madness curses even the people without the perks.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:It's scary that von Hapsburg madness curses even the people without the perks. He's also massively overweight and nearly died a few years back from a MRSA infection brought on by his slovenly living, so yeah more than a few ghosts of the past there.
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