/u/ProgressIsAMyth's posts in /r/askhistorians
I remember reading that the KGB had promoted many of the "CIA/US government killed JFK" conspiracy theories. Is there any documented evidence that this was an attempt to deflect public attention in the US from the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald had pro-Communist views and had defected to the USSR?
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Though they were obviously adversaries, what were the *specific* caricatures of the Hashemites and the al-Saud of one another during the years of Abdulaziz's conquests and eventual capture of Mecca and Medina? In particular, how did they invoke Islam to condemn one another?
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Are there any texts or other historical documents from the 19th or early 20th centuries that predicted or suggested that the San Francisco Bay Area would become the hub of “cutting-edge” technology that it is today?
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How was “the executive power” described in Article II of the US Constitution understood by the Constitution's writers/framers?
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Was a Catholic monarch perceived by many in Early Modern England as *inevitably* leading to absolutism, with not just Jacob II but also Louis XIV in mind?
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How did the Ottoman Empire’s collapse affect the Arab world’s relationship to/view of Islam? Specifically, was there any immediate push for the “Islamization” of Arab societies after the Ottomans’ collapse?
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The pre-Civil War Democratic Party opposed a federal program of internal improvements. Did Southern Democrats fear that an interdependent, national infrastructure would reduce the economic influence of the Slave Power and the political influence of the slave states?
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As I understand it, Hitler and other Nazi leaders ordered the German population in March/April 1945 to fight to the last man, woman, and child (correct me if I’m wrong). Did this experience influence the US perception of Japan having an equivalent total commitment to fighting a losing war?
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