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What did happen in the year 1000? Like, 1000 years since Jesus was born and the catholic church was at its height, did some really big celebrations take place or something like that?	4421
How surprised were the USSR officials after Hitler started invading the country? Like, did they really think that the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact would last despite what Germany already did with Czechoslovakia?	194
Kaiser Wilhelm II died in 1941, so he should've seen the rize on nazism in his country and the start of a new war on the continent, is there any records that state his opinion on the situation of the country after he left? Especially about this new great war Hitler started.	32
Why did the Allies go from humiliating and destroying Germany economically and socially in the end of ww1 to try with everything they had to appease it in the late '30s? It's just such a big policy change...	17
What was the considerations passing through the USSR leadership when they refused to help the Warsaw Uprising during WW2?	8
What were the changes enacted by the Mongols in chinese society after the invasion and subsequent annexation?	7
I often hear that the Mongol Invasion and subsequent anexation of China completely broke their burocratic system and society, but to which extent is this true?	5
I am a lower-class nobleman of, let's say, the HRE, is there anything I can do to attract my overlords attention?	5
Why is german heritage so common in America (the continent) even if they were not the ones who colonized it?	4
Gorbachev said in an interview to BBC in 2016 that he was "forced" to end the USSR for there was a real risk of a civil war happening as a result of a power struggle on the government, but to which extent is this really true, and if so, how close did they really get to a real, open civil war?	3

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