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At what point did people realize that WW2 was bigger than WW1?	2816
Why are Dutch people, language, and culture considered distinct from German people, language, and culture when German is such a wide category already?	78
Did Karl Marx ever discuss how he would like to see a society organized?	50
The architecture of old Europe (say about 1600 to 1900) seems much more ornate than current architecture. How did the authorities back then finance such elaborate undertakings, and did it cause financial or economic issues? Or was it not especially expensive in the first place?	37
Why did the USSR ally with the Nazis and invade Poland instead of allying with Poland and fending off the Nazis?	20
Was there a significant base of support for the South Vietnamese government among it's citizenry or the citizenry of the North, and if so, did they ever hold a majority in either group? Furthermore, under what pretext did those Vietnamese citizens who supported it do so? What arguments were made?	9
What was life like for the Soviet bureaucracy and politicians, materially speaking? What did they get in terms of the quality and scale of goods, housing, privileges, and their power and comfort in their day-to-day life, in comparison with an average Soviet civilian?	8
I spotted this blurb about Stalin's export of grain to India on the web today. Is it an accurate description of historical events, or just bs?	7
It seems to me that Stalin was incredibly conciliatory to Hitler prior to June 1941 and thus bears some responsibility for Hitler’s rise, yet I don’t hear much discussion of this perspective; do historians concur with my view, or am I way off?	7
What role did Stalin and the Soviet government play in the famine of 1932-1933, exactly?	5

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