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>be ebin decadent writer
>get involved in all sorts of fuckery, orgies and drug usage
>WWI comes around
>instead of cowering at home, decide that war may hold the true thrill you’ve been waiting for
>rp as invincible Ubermensch with your gang, that you call the Arditi (literally “The Daring”), and become convinced you’re modern heroes
>convince the Italian High Command that you’re actually modern heroes
>they give you a handful of airplanes (which you’ve been in love since taking a flight with Wilbur Wright, your homie), but don’t believe you’ll do anything significant with it
>you decide you’ll bomb Vienna itself
>with 1918 biplanes that can barely handle going over 700 km in distance
>Vienna, a city which is over the Alps, and 1200 km away
>actually manage to get over the city, with the Kaiser still in town with most of the government
>drop your massive load over the most important city in Austria-Hungary
>it’s 50000 posters in green, white and red written by yourself saying that the Americans will crush Austria and it’s better they surrender
>it’s not even in German
>manage to actually go back to Italy and be hailed as a war hero


>sometime later board a freighter in the dead of night, lead two others into one of Austria’s biggest dockyards and fire torpedos, one of the most daring raids in the whole war
>fire a grand total of six torpedos, five of which get entangled in fishing nets and one which explodes in the sea
>fuck off real quick and lose not a single man


After the war...
>be mad that Italy got fucked in Versailles
>decide to go make your own peace
>together with some other veteran Arditi kick out the Allies that were occupying the major Adriatic port of Fiume
>announce that the city is now part of Italy
>the Italian king and the PM say “no, it isn’t”, wanting no more shit involving war
>send a naval blockade demanding D’Annunzio’s surrender
>create your own government, unlike anything before
>divide society into nine corporations (basically labour unions), into what you saw as the fundamental professions, such as Employers, Civil Servants, Workers, etc
>create a tenth which only includes “superior individuals” (heroes, supermen and poets)
>define that music should be the fundamental principle of government
>call yourself the “Duce of the Carnaro” and give the Arditi black shirts and fezzes

>eventually Italy gets tired of your shit and bombs the city until you surrender

>spend the rest of your days writing and talking shit of everyone who’s important in Italy
>right before Mussolini comes to power, get thrown off a window or just stumble out of it when drunk/high, no one knows to this day
>afterwards get a comfy villa from the Italian government and be bribed to stay put and not act up
>when asked about it, Mussolini said: "When you have a rotten tooth you have two possibilities open to you: either you pull the tooth or you fill it with gold. With D'Annunzio I have chosen for the latter treatment."
>still try to convince Mussolini to not buddy up with Hitler
>when he doesn’t hear you, publish some works calling Hitler a clown and crypto-Jew
>die peacefully at 74 in 1938 and be buried in one of modern Italy’s largest mausoleums

>in 1944, Mussolini admitted that not following D’Annunzio’s advice of breaking up with Hitler was his greatest mistake

the Italian chad, witnessed for the first time
 
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On February 7th of 1909, a 30-year-old mother of two by the name of Emma Hauck was admitted to the psychiatric hospital of the University of Heidelberg in Germany, having recently been diagnosed with dementia praecox (schizophrenia). The outlook improved briefly and a month later she was discharged, only to be readmitted within weeks as her condition deteriorated further. Sadly, the downturn continued and in August of that year, with her illness deemed "terminal" and rehabilitation no longer an option, Emma was transferred to Wiesloch asylum, the facility in which she would pass away eleven years later.

It was around this time that a heartbreaking collection of letters, some of which can be seen below, were discovered in the archives of the Heidelberg hospital; all written obsessively in Emma's hand during her second stay at the clinic in 1909, at a time when reports indicate she was relentlessly speaking of her family. Each desperate letter is directed at her absent husband, Mark, and every page is thick with overlapping text. Some are so condensed as to be illegible; some read "Herzensschatzi komm" ("Sweetheart come") over and over; others simply repeat the plea, "komm komm komm," ("come come come") thousands of times.

None were sent.

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Roman epitaphs for their dog

“I am in tears, while carrying you to your last resting place as much as I rejoiced when bringing you home in my own hands fifteen years ago.”

“My eyes were wet with tears, our little dog, when I bore thee (to the grave)… So, Patricus, never again shall thou give me a thousand kisses. Never canst thou be contentedly in my lap. In sadness have I buried thee, and thou deservist. In a resting place of marble, I have put thee for all time by the side of my shade. In thy qualities, sagacious thou wert like a human being. Ah, me! What a loved companion have we lost!”

“To Helena, foster child, soul without comparison and deserving of praise.”

“[Myia] never barked without reason, but now he is silent.”

its not fair bros
 
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buying into the rhodesia meme is a gateway to worse things like calling the bombing of dresden a war crime or saying that hitler could have won world war two
 
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When tankies and trots start defending their
actions in the civil war as historical necessity


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Lenin: Alright this war is going to cost us a lot but we seem to be winning so far.

Trotsky: Yeah, by the way I might have provoked the Czech Legion into entering the conflict, we also lost our only railway.
 
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Prepare to Meet Thy God' - A Bomb Disposal Officer approaches a car bomb during the Irish Troubles

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Allied POWs are photographed after their liberation from Japanese internment at Changi Prison. September, 1945.

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Colonel Fenoult and Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley, 1913

Called 'Volodya' by family, Vladimir was handsome and intelligent, with artistic leanings. He would grow up to be a promising young poet, very charming and much liked by all, however his Romanov blood marked him as an undesirable element after the Russian revolution and although born out of wedlock and having no connection with politics whatsoever, he would be killed alongside several other Romanovs in summer 1918
 
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