/u/Gantson's posts in /r/askhistorians
In the beginning of the Godfather, Don Corleone is seen doing favors to a community of Italian immigrants in New York, did the mafia in America actually do this during this period or was it just a romanticized view of post-war organized crime?
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Khrushchev in 1961 claim that the USSR could build Communism in 20 years, did the leadership of the CPSU then have an actual idea or plan of how they were going to get to a stateless/moneyless/classless society?
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During and after the War, what was the opinion of the German Generals (such as van Manstein) towards Zhukov?
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Mafia movies from Goodfellas/Casino/Godfather finger drugs for the decline of the American Mafia, how much truth is there in this narrative?
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I know glassware was an export of the Roman Empire. What happened to this industry after the fragmentation of the Roman Empire?
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Why did people engage in cat-burning as a form of entertainment in medieval France? And why did it eventually stop?
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After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, did the Jin Dynasty that replaced them in the north become more Sinicized overtime? In regards to state policies, how much they differ economically, culturally and administratively from the Northern Song and Southern Song?
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In 1937, the Nizam of Hyderabad was considered by Time Magazine to be the richest man alive, how did he come to amass so much wealth?
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