/r/AskHistorians
I had a landlord who said that in the US Navy he and his shipmates were told to throw overboard cut up copies of a game on magnetic tape in a classified file container to waste the time of any trailing Soviet subs/boats. Is there any record of something like this happening?
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In British public schools, the Empire’s suppression of the slave trade is taught as essentially the greatest act of magnanimity in world history. Did the Empire have some kind of material interest in stopping the slave trade?
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When did the fetishization of Asian women in the West start? Was it a result of GIs bringing home Asian brides?
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Have American accents changed over the past 60 years? Watching old movies and the people talk very differently.
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As a Westerner, I have tended to think about German reunification as the "real" or "main" Germany bringing the prodigal son in from the cold, so to speak. How did the majority of East Germans perceive reunification?
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