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I often hear jokes or half-jokes that "masculinity is always in crisis" from historians. What does this mean and how has this crisis manifested historically?

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said that the Old Believers were treated especially cruelly in the Soviet Union. How were the Old Believers treated compared to other Orthodox Christians and religious groups?

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Was Hershey's chocolate described as tasting like vomit before it came to dominate the US market?

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I'm a medieval European peasant that died by suicide. Does my family actually acknowledge how I died, or does that get slipped under the rug?

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I often hear jokes or half-jokes that "masculinity is always in crisis" from historians. What does this mean and how has this crisis manifested historically?	484	AskHistorians
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said that the Old Believers were treated especially cruelly in the Soviet Union. How were the Old Believers treated compared to other Orthodox Christians and religious groups?	11	AskHistorians
Was Hershey's chocolate described as tasting like vomit before it came to dominate the US market?	7	AskHistorians
I'm a medieval European peasant that died by suicide. Does my family actually acknowledge how I died, or does that get slipped under the rug?	0	AskHistorians