/u/Zingleborp's posts in /r/AskHistorians
What is the cultural legacy of the USSR's war in Afghanistan on current Russian culture? Is it at all similar to that of Vietnam in the United States?
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Tomatoes are an integral part of Italian cuisine (used in pasta, lasagna, bruschetta, etc. etc.), but tomatoes are a new world food. What was Italian cuisine like before the introduction of the tomato, how quickly was it adopted, and when did what we consider to be modern Italian cuisine emerge?
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Is the extreme violence seen with many communist revolutions in the 20th century more a manifestation of the violent tones of the Communist Manifesto or the people leading these movements?
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I am a German infantry soldier at the very beginning of WW2. What are the odds I am still alive in May 1945?
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What was the point of continuing the Tuskegee Syphilis study after a reliable cure that been discovered and proven safe/effective?
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Did Rome, at the height of her power, have the tactics and technology necessary to effectively lay siege to a standard medieval castle?
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Does the modern military practice of shaving soldier's heads date back to measures to control the spread of epidemic typhus>?
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Were PTSD and other psychological traumas of war as common in less-humanistic societies of the past than they are today?
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