History Thread

[Bronn]

who would win

the great imperial japanese empire with million of soldiers along with the most powerful asian naval fleet or some weird asian cartoons caused by fat man and little boi

modern japan has already colonized most of the world with its dark influence, so i'd say modern

 

[Dallas]

absolute /danocore/ war and peace

 

[Orcus]

modern japan has already colonized most of the world with its dark influence, so i'd say modern

The true question is Was two nukes too much? If we hit them one more time would it reset back to normal?

 

[Deleted member 1381]

 

[All Adm*ns are Bastards]

Dear Boss,

I keep on hearing the police have caught me but they wont fix me just yet. I have laughed when they look so clever and talk about being on the right track. That joke about Leather Apron gave me real fits. I am down on whores and I shant quit ripping them till I do get buckled. Grand work the last job was. I gave the lady no time to squeal. How can they catch me now. I love my work and want to start again. You will soon hear of me with my funny little games. I saved some of the proper red stuff in a ginger beer bottle over the last job to write with but it went thick like glue and I cant use it. Red ink is fit enough I hope ha. ha. The next job I do I shall clip the ladys ears off and send to the police officers just for jolly wouldn't you. Keep this letter back till I do a bit more work, then give it out straight. My knife's so nice and sharp I want to get to work right away if I get a chance. Good Luck. Yours truly
Jack the Ripper

Dont mind me giving the trade name

PS Wasnt good enough to post this before I got all the red ink off my hands curse it. No luck yet. They say I'm a doctor now. ha ha

 

[Deleted member 1381]

 

[Dr Heckyll]

once, my grandma from romania came to visit. We were eating chinese food, including some prawn crackers.
She found it pretty funny, because during the communist period, they'd have prawn crackers a lot of the time. Like, she said shops were filled with prawn crackers from vietnam that you would cook up, like, they'd get bundles of it for free even during the 80s when shortages were at their worst

 

[Akula]

once, my grandma from romania came to visit. We were eating chinese food, including some prawn crackers.
She found it pretty funny, because during the communist period, they'd have prawn crackers a lot of the time. Like, she said shops were filled with prawn crackers from vietnam that you would cook up, like, they'd get bundles of it for free even during the 80s when shortages were at their worst

prawn crackers are the best man, used to eat whole bags of the things

 

[Dr Heckyll]

prawn crackers are the best man, used to eat whole bags of the things

they're alright, I guess, just found it interesting how something so mundane could be representative of geopolitics in the cold war

 

[sambo]

prawn crackers are the best man, used to eat whole bags of the things

it's a dangerous game though since you can get either really nice ones that taste great or you can get absolutely disgusting ones and there's no telling which until it's too late

 

[Nov]

it's a dangerous game though since you can get either really nice ones that taste great or you can get absolutely disgusting ones and there's no telling which until it's too late

or the ones that dry your mouth
like the ones I get
all the fuckin time

 

[Deleted member 1381]

prawn crackers are the dogs bollocks

quite literally if you're unlucky

 

[Whilt]

1937, a queue for a breadline during the Great Depression and at the height of FDR's New Deal

1937, Battle of the Overpass, a union worker is attacked by security guards outside a Ford Factory during a protest, one of the major factors that led to a decline in support for Henry Ford and his motor company.​

 

[Husky]

 

[TinPan]

From an interview with Viktor Belenko, the USSR fighter pilot who defected in the 70's with a (then) top-secret MiG-25:

Q: How long did you plan your escape, and what did it involve?
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Belenko: In terms of the evolution of my thoughts and making the conclusion to escape I do not have a precise time. I did make that decision based on my dissatisfaction with that country. I tried to do my best. I was one of their best fighter pilots. When I was young I was possessed by socialist and communist ideas which are very appealing because they promise full employment, free education, free medical care, good retirement, free child care, and so on. But later I discovered that those ideas were serving only a very small number of Communist nomenclatura, and the rest of the people were basically slaves. I made my conclusion that I could not change that system. The system is so big that there's no way I could change it or exist inside of it as a normal human being. For me, it was the best thing to divorce myself from that system. I was a fighter pilot, but that had nothing to do with my decision to escape. If I had not been a fighter pilot, I would still have found way to escape from that concentration camp. Even today, with all the slogans and all the freedoms, that country is still a closed society.

It took me a while to build the critical mass in my mind to make that decision, but the final decision I made a month before my escape, and when I made that decision I felt so good about myself! I felt like I was walking on the top of clouds.

I felt free.​

 

[Akula]

MiG-25:

 

[TinPan]

The American's made a multi-roll jet to counteract an average fighter jet that was made to counteract a non-existent bomber jet.
Both countries literally wasted billions of dollars funding aircraft that ultimately didn't even need to exist in the first place.
Wowie.

 

[Akula]

The American's made a multi-roll jet to counteract an average fighter jet that was made to counteract a non-existent bomber jet.
Both countries literally wasted billions of dollars funding aircraft that ultimately didn't even need to exist in the first place.
Wowie.

US vs USSR competition usually went

>russia builds kinda good thing
>USA just dumps 50 kabillion dollars and makes amazing thing

see; F-16, M1 Abrams, space race, nuclear subs, etc

the Russians always led at the start but then the yanks got so absurdly ahead of them later on

 

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[aperson]

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