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How did the surviving Socialist nations react to the fall of the USSR and most of the other Socialist nations from 1989 to 1991? How did it impact, if at all, their future domestic and foreign policy?	2
What makes a country an "empire"? Is it committing "imperialism"? Then what constitutes "imperialism"?	2
What is a more detailed periodisation of military history than "Antique -> Medieval -> Gunpowder -> Industrial -> Modern warfare"? And what books are a good read on the evolution of military warfare from the Antique until today?	2
How was it decided who got what weapon (MP40, MG34/42, K98, STG44, G41, and others I havent mentioned) and why? What about the other nations of WW2?	2
What was the Allied reaction to the Wehrmacht and (Waffen) SS executing their fellow Germans as they deserted or refused to fight during the last months of the Second World War in Europe?	2
In the Weimar Republic, was the "Black-Red-White" flag deliberately used (propaganda, party symbols, etc...) to represent the anti-republican parties and elements, and likewise the "Black-Red-Gold" flag for the republican parties and elements? Were there any parties or elements that broke this rule?	2
The Scharnhorst and Gneisenau: Battlecruisers or Battleships?	2
What was the German numbering scheme for armies, corps, divisions, etc... during World War I and/or World War II?	2
It is common to say that the knightly class disappeared because of the invention of gunpowder, which made their armour useless and gave every common man the ability to be a foot soldier. But what other factors played into this?	2
Why do facepainting and bodypainting seem to be such a common occurence in tribal cultures around the world?	2

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