History Thread

[Mancom37]

@Dallas

http://www.investigatingtheterror.com/documents/files/gladiodocs.pdf

 

[Black Rain (1989)]

@Dallas

http://www.investigatingtheterror.com/documents/files/gladiodocs.pdf

Thank you my friend this is very epic and cool and I will use it for some of my uni work x

 

[Mancom37]

Thank you my friend this is very epic and cool and I will use it for some of my uni work x

No worries, here have a photo from a book I read in my Uni too

 

[Dallas]

a very interesting documentary, if you can get past the weird/pretentious style of adam curtis in many places

beautiful footage, historical and contemporary cultural and military meta-analysis of the complexity of Saudi Arabia, the west, Russia and its role in Afghanistan. It's a winding and very complex picture and I'm certain this documentary skips over lots of the underlying motives of the conflict, lost in trying to draw grand historical narratives (using opium, the petrodollar, Wahabism) but I recc it anyway lads

"Artyom Borovik said that the Russians [in Afghanistan] resembled the astronauts in a famous Soviet science fiction film called Solaris. The astronauts find a planet covered with a giant ocean that appeared to be conscious. To try and influence the ocean, they bombarded it with x-rays. What they don't realise is that the ocean is irradiating them, it is playing back, in the astronaut's minds, memories of the past, but in such a vivid way that they begin not to trust anything that they think or believe. Afghanistan, Borovik said, was doing the same to the Russians." (Curtis, 2015)

 

[Ond]

 

[afric]

fuck krauts

-allied gang

 

[Dallas]

"There's no such thing as a winnable war,
It's a lie we don't believe anymore." (Sting, 1985)

"The talks between Reagan and Gorbachev at Reykjavik proceeded at a breakneck pace. Gorbachev agreed that human rights issues were a legitimate topic of discussion, something no previous Soviet leader had ever agreed to. A proposal to eliminate all new strategic missiles grew into a discussion, for the first time in history, of the real possibility of eliminating nuclear weapons forever.

Aides to both leaders were shocked by the pace of the discussions. A summit that began with low expectations had blossomed into one of the most dramatic and potentially productive summits of all time. At one point Reagan even described to Gorbachev how both men might return to Reykjavik in ten years, aged and retired leaders, to personally witness the dismantling of the world’s last remaining nuclear warhead." (Pyles, n.d.)

 

[Ond]

how many of ya'll can say you've had a nice little swim in the bay of pigs

 

[Knight]

 

[aperson]

 

[Ond]

The moment U.S forces open fire in an attempt to take out a Viet Cong sniper, April 1970

They apparently only found a blood trail later when they sent out a patrol, no body

165th Inf. assault wave attacking Butaritari, Yellow Beach Two, find it slow going in the coral bottom waters. Jap machine gun fire from the right flank makes it more difficult for them. Makin Atoll, Gilbert Islands, November 20, 1943.

A sniper from 'C' Company, 5th Battalion, The Black Watch , 51st (Highland) Division, in position in a ruined building in Gennep, Holland, 14 February 1945

A medic assists a wounded paratrooper during Operation Varsity, Germany, 1945.

Battle of Albert. British troops attacking German trenches near Mametz. 1st July 1916

 

[Deleted member 1381]

January 4th, 1951. Seoul falls to the North Korean and Chinese military.

 

[Dallas]

Soviet leaders visit Scotland, stopping at Edinburgh and Glasgow.

"Khrushchev’s and Bulganin’s visit to the UK was an early effort on the part of the Soviet leadership to seek recognition and acceptance in the West. This was the Soviets’ moment of unfettered pride in their accomplishments, a moment of anticipation of yet greater feats. In one of their conversations, Khrushchev asked Eden to “love them as they were.” But he failed to win the recognition he coveted, the respect that he felt was due to him as the leader of a superpower. Again and again, Khrushchev had to fight back British accusations about the lack of political freedoms in the Soviet bloc. On occasion, Khrushchev exploded, as he did during a dinner with the Labour Party, when he was quizzed about the prison system in the USSR. “It was easier to discuss matters with the Conservatives,” Khrushchev grumbled afterwards, but in the end, he never did learn to “love them as they were”—not the Conservatives, not the Labour, not the West. The feeling of distrust and contempt was mutual. Khrushchev came to the UK hoping he’d take it by the storm with the promise of cultural exchange and trade. He left with a sense of nagging dissatisfaction. He later talked on many occasions about the UK, mainly in the vein of how many nuclear bombs it would take to wipe it off the face of the Earth." (Radchenko, 2016)

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/love-us-we-are-khrushchevs-1956-charm-offensive-the-uk

Interesting to also see there has been a documented and quite rich, and surprising, history of friendship between the ussr and scotland

 

[Rabid]

Interesting to also see there has been a documented and quite rich, and surprising, history of friendship between the ussr and scotland

 

[Dallas]

red clydeside is alive
the dream of john maclean will be realised

let's get that independence (bread)

 

[Ond]

The Schlörwagen" A prototype aerodynamic rear-engine passenger vehicle developed by Karl Schlör (1911–1997). Wind tunnel tests yielded a drag coefficient of only 0.113. Unveiled at the 1939 Berlin Auto Show, project was shelved with the onset of World War II. Germany, Berlin, 1939

C.1865 Step Four of the Five Stages of Inebriation- Used for Educative Purposes

A right side view of two RH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters in flight. The helicopters, based aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN-68), are taking part in Operation Eagle Claw / Evening Light, a rescue mission to Iran, April 24, 1980

Explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship, the Endurance, illuminated by more than 20 flashes for a photo while trapped in an ice pack on the Weddell Sea during a doomed expedition to Antarctica - August 27, 1915

A British sniper demonstrates his camouflage at a sniper school in a French village, 27 July 1944. He is wearing a German camouflage smock.
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[afric]

Explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship, the Endurance, illuminated by more than 20 flashes for a photo while trapped in an ice pack on the Weddell Sea during a doomed expedition to Antarctica - August 27, 1915
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ernest shackleton is a british hero

proof that the blood of shaggers runs through our viens

 

[Ond]

While riding the train at the Bronx Zoo, Castro enjoyed an ice cream cone. Apr. 24, 1959." Credit: Meyer Liebowitz/The New York Times. Taken during Fidel Castro's visit to New York City in 1959

Seen in an appliance store in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, President Bush announces allied forces air strikes against Iraq on January 17, 1991.

colorized picture of the arrival of the US soliders from france ,march 20 ,1919

Scientists T Griffith Taylor and Charles S Wright in the grotto of an iceberg during the British Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1913

Finland, 1942: Japanese Minister helping build trenches

Mugshot of Josip Broz Tito, the former president of Yugoslavia, (Zagreb circa 1927)

King Albert I of the Belgians (left) and King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, sometime before 1930


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[Deleted member 1381]

"Not a word passed during the amputation of the arm of the future Lord Raglan; indeed few were aware of Raglan's presence until he called out in his usual casual voice, "Hello. Don't carry away that arm until I have taken off the ring.""​

 

[Dallas]

King Albert I of the Belgians (left) and King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, sometime before 1930


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6 ft vs 5'11

top quality photos evil as always