History Thread

[Deleted member 3713]

hi

ah shit

 

[Ond]

C-47 preparing for take-off at Gibraltar, 1940

Saturn V rocket on the pad at dawn, prior to first launch - November 9, 1967

Wall Street in November, 1918 when Germany surrendered

Chicago police officers carry 21 year old protester Bernie Sanders to a police wagon from a civil-rights demonstration, 1963

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[Deleted member 1381]

"Brig Gen Cuthbert Lucas was fishing on the River Blackwater near Fermoy on 26 June 1920 when he was captured by the IRA, becoming the highest ranking soldier to suffer such a fate. The Boer War and World War One veteran must surely have feared the worst when he was captured.

Perhaps to alleviate the boredom, he demanded - and received - an officer's prisoner-of-war allowance of a bottle of whiskey a day."
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Jack Hogan, the son of one of the IRA guards, Thomas Hogan, told Ms Carey: "The trouble was that they couldn't keep him. He used to drink a bottle of whiskey every day and he used to beat them at poker. He cleaned them out at poker."

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[Dallas]

Miss USSR Beauty Contest

 

[Dallas]

The “Mishima incident” — the never-to-be-forgotten “JFK moment” of postwar Japanese history — had begun.

Within two hours of his attempted phone call to Murata, Mishima had stood in military uniform on a balcony at the headquarters and addressed about 1,000 servicemen on the need to revoke the country’s pacifist Constitution before being shouted down in a sea of jeers.

Then, together with his probable lover Masakatsu Morita, he committed an excruciating ritual suicide and was decapitated. Mishima’s severed head, still sporting his “Seven Lives for the Nation” headband, would come to rest on the red carpet and eventually be snapped by an Asahi photographer for the front-page of that evening’s edition, the biggest selling evening edition in the country’s history.

(Flanagan, 2015)

"To return Japan to Japan’s true form, that is why we die. Is it enough to insist on the sanctity of life,
even when the soul is dead? What sort of military holds nothing above the value of life?
Gentlemen, we are now going to show you a value even greater than the sanctity of life.
That is not freedom, nor democracy. It is Japan. The country of history and tradition that we love, Japan.
Is there no one here who will throw their bodies against this degenerate constitution and die?
If there is, stand with us and die with us now.
We have undertaken this action in the fervent hope that you, gentlemen,
who have the purest of souls, may be reborn as individual men and as warriors."

Yukio Mishima
1925 - 1970

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[Deleted member 1381]

This day, 1943, Krakow Ghetto is liquidated
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[Akula]

 

[Señor Jaggles]

My father did the military service and since Spain used some german weapons for their maneuvers he got to shoot an MG42, a few years before it was replaced by the MG3 (as per usual we were quite late to replace them).

He always laughs when he remembers the rate of fire of the thing, but mostly the fact you had to be careful since the barrel could fucking melt due to the heat it produced. It was a deadly MG no doubt but BOY was it a pain in the ass to operate.

 

[mårten]

The “Mishima incident” — the never-to-be-forgotten “JFK moment” of postwar Japanese history — had begun.

Within two hours of his attempted phone call to Murata, Mishima had stood in military uniform on a balcony at the headquarters and addressed about 1,000 servicemen on the need to revoke the country’s pacifist Constitution before being shouted down in a sea of jeers.

Then, together with his probable lover Masakatsu Morita, he committed an excruciating ritual suicide and was decapitated. Mishima’s severed head, still sporting his “Seven Lives for the Nation” headband, would come to rest on the red carpet and eventually be snapped by an Asahi photographer for the front-page of that evening’s edition, the biggest selling evening edition in the country’s history.

(Flanagan, 2015)

"To return Japan to Japan’s true form, that is why we die. Is it enough to insist on the sanctity of life,
even when the soul is dead? What sort of military holds nothing above the value of life?
Gentlemen, we are now going to show you a value even greater than the sanctity of life.
That is not freedom, nor democracy. It is Japan. The country of history and tradition that we love, Japan.
Is there no one here who will throw their bodies against this degenerate constitution and die?
If there is, stand with us and die with us now.
We have undertaken this action in the fervent hope that you, gentlemen,
who have the purest of souls, may be reborn as individual men and as warriors."

Yukio Mishima
1925 - 1970

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Photograph taken by press-photographer Yasushi Nagao right after the first stabbing (it won the Pulitzer prize).

The assassination of Inejiro Asanuma
"On October 12, 1960, Asanuma was assassinated by 17-year-old Otoya Yamaguchi, a nationalist, during a televised political debate for the coming elections for the House of Representatives."
Inejiro Asamuna was a socialist politician who was very outspoken about his support for Chinese democracy and heavily criticized US and Japan relations. He wasn't very popular.
Otoya Yamaguchi later committed suicide when in police custody.

Post-war Japan was fucking wild

 

[the last man]

On the 27th of October 1981, in an event dubbed "U-137" in Sweden and "Whiskey on the Rocks" internationally, a Whiskey-class Soviet submarine armed with nuclear weapons ran aground in a militarily restricted zone outside my home town, incidentally also the largest naval base in Sweden.

Investigation from local patrol boats ensued after a pair of fishermen from a local island found the submarine in the early morning hours. Conversing in german, the commander of the patrol ship learned from the captain of the soviet submarine that they had been led into swedish waters because of faulty navigational equipment. During later investigations, captain insisted on the fault of the navigational equipment, telling the investigators that they believed they were off the coast of Poland.

Soviet navy command itself insisted that the ship had been forced into Swedish waters due to severe onboard distress.

After 10 days of a diplomatic tug-of-war between governments, tense military preparations and a constant scramble of discouraging more soviet ships from entering the waters, the swedish navy tugged the submarine out from the rocks, letting it return to the wider baltic.

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[Deleted member 3713]

Photograph taken by press-photographer Yasushi Nagao right after the first stabbing (it won the Pulitzer prize).

The assassination of Inejiro Asanuma
"On October 12, 1960, Asanuma was assassinated by 17-year-old Otoya Yamaguchi, a nationalist, during a televised political debate for the coming elections for the House of Representatives."
Inejiro Asamuna was a socialist politician who was very outspoken about his support for Chinese democracy and heavily criticized US and Japan relations. He wasn't very popular.
Otoya Yamaguchi later committed suicide when in police custody.

Post-war Japan was fucking wild

single handedly stopped communism from spreading in japan.

 

[mårten]

single handedly stopped communism from spreading in japan.

maybe
but i don't think a politician that met with Mao would be getting anywhere in a democratic country anyways

 

[Dr Heckyll]

maybe
but i don't think a politician that met with Mao would be getting anywhere in a democratic country anyways

lol

 

[Dallas]

Photograph taken by press-photographer Yasushi Nagao right after the first stabbing (it won the Pulitzer prize).

The assassination of Inejiro Asanuma
"On October 12, 1960, Asanuma was assassinated by 17-year-old Otoya Yamaguchi, a nationalist, during a televised political debate for the coming elections for the House of Representatives."
Inejiro Asamuna was a socialist politician who was very outspoken about his support for Chinese democracy and heavily criticized US and Japan relations. He wasn't very popular.
Otoya Yamaguchi later committed suicide when in police custody.

Post-war Japan was fucking wild

love the photo and the story but this is a really shit caption where did you get it from

"he wasn't really popular" bro the communist party got a huge swathe of the vote and was polling very high until the post-assassination split

 

[mårten]

lol

yeah but he wasn't exactly in full support of Mao was he

love the photo and the story but this is a really shit caption where did you get it from

"he wasn't really popular" bro the communist party got a huge swathe of the vote and was polling very high until the post-assassination split

idk he got stabbed so i just kinda assumed he wasnt liked but damn didnt know that they were actually that successful. japan mightve dodged a bullet

 

[Deleted member 3713]

Iraq would be totally different and possibly even better than today if the Ba'athist government had been allowed to stay after saddam.

If only this man was allowed to hold power after the war and not forced run off into hiding.

(New Iraqi Army 2003 just a few months after saddam's exile into hiding. The Ba'athists still held power and a stable and loyal military and police force.)

(2005, the Iraqi army and police force is forced by occupational forces of the US and the UK to disband, all ba'athist members are arrested. "Suddenly" Al Queda in Iraq gains a new wave of armed insurgent volunteers.)

If only things were different.

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[Mancom37]

 

[Anthrax_PL]

 

[Ond]

President Lyndon Johnson listens to a tape recording from his son in law, a Marine Corps company Commander in Vietnam, 1968

A woman greets her son, an Austrian prisoner of war returning home to Vienna 1947

Two wounded German POW receiving medical attention from the Americans, 1918

Man reading a book by the water, Pyongyang, North Korea, ca. 1980

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[Rabid]

Communism: Exists

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