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I recently found out that Muslim Spain recruited soldiers almost entirely from sub-Saharan African populations. The same was true for medieval caliphates in North Africa and parts of the Middle East. What was it about sub-Saharan African soldiers that made them the ideal recruits for Muslim rulers?
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In the rather difficult to watch 1992 film "The Chekist," we see the Cheka stripping people naked, shooting them en masse and then filling trucks with their naked dead bodies. Does this accurately reflect the kind of brutality and violence that took place during Lenin's rule over the Soviet Union?
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