/u/Pashahlis's posts
"[...], Strandman was ordered to show up to the NKVD headquarters. Already knowing about his fate, he committed suicide [...]." Why would the NKVD announce a coming arrest to their victim? And why did they want to arrest a retired, non-active, old, left-wing Estonian politician?
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Do Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria truly deserve the bad rep they got in WW2? What was the state of their armies and airforces and how effective were they?
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During the fall of the Soviet Union, there was both a Russian President (Boris Yeltzin) and a Soviet President (Gorbatchov). Why?
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How effective was the defensive armament of inter-war and WW2 bomber and attack aircraft, especially considering that most aircraft could at most fire only 1 or 2 defensive machine gun barrels into a given direction?
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Why did the German Empire and Nazi Germany both seek "living space" in the east? If everyone were to live at the same density as Manhattan, then the entire current world population would fit into New Zealand. So clearly actual lack of space cannot have been the problem there?
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Why did Bill Clinton have to resign over an affair when that is his private thing and nothing political?
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Hitler openly advertised his plans for the Holocaust and WW2 in his book Mein Kampf and the numerous speeches he held. How can it be then that in November 1932 33% of voters voted for the NSDAP and a large part of the right wing or right wing extremist parties supported him?
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