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What is the history behind the Soviet artillery divisions in WW2? As far as I know they were the only ones fielding whole artillery divisions.	15
Why did the Republic of North Macedonia came into existence? As far as I know there was no (North-)Macedonian national identity prior to 1945.	15
Can you help me identify when the following photo was most likely taken, what army the two soldiers in the photo were part of, what arm and what rank they most likely had?	15
Why did the 1989 Tiananmen Square revolution in China fail, where the various 1989 revolutions in the USSR succeeded?	15
Armoured trains during WW2: How were they used and how effective were they?	15
What are the current scientific estimates for the death toll of the Canadian residential school massacres of indigenous children and could those be classified as a genocide? Are there likely to be even more discoveries of unmarked or mass graves?	15
During Napoleonic times big organizational army units were called "XIV Corps". In modern day times we call them "12th Army". The Roman Empire called them "XII Legion". What did the Ancient Greeks, Egyptians, Chinese, etc... call their big organisational army units?	14
Much has been said about Germany's inability to win the Battle for the Atlantic in WW2 using mainly U-boats. But I often hear that during WW1 Germany's chances to force the UK to submit using mainly U-Boats was, while still impossible, much higher. How true is that?	14
It seems that most 19th century European nationalism was driven forward by "intellegentsia" writing "nationalistic/patriotic literature". What was the intellegentsia, why was it so crucial for the dev. of nationalism, and what did this lit. look like and how would it help support nationalism?	14
What exactly was Japan after the Meiji Restauration? An absolute monarchy? What about during WW2? Was it a totalitarian dictatorship? If so, who was the dictator? And can it be called fascist?	14

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