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Kuwait, Saudi Arabia & co supported Iraq with huge amounts of money during their war with Iran (80-88), fearing the Islamic Revolution would spread like contagion in the region. Was it ever likely that such a domino-effect could topple the Gulf monarchies, or was this simply propaganda/paranoia?
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Poland is making it a criminal offence to suggest that the country or its people are in any part culpable for genocide committed during WW2. Is this a common claim and does it have any validity?
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To what extent does German influence remain in their former African colonial possessions. Can we identify a residue in language, culture, infrastructure etc?
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Are the figures in Da Vinci's 'Last Supper' arranged in a manner which makes certain theological suggestions, or is it purely an artistic composition?
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Soviet government confusion: Please help me make sense of all these councils, secretaries, congresses, premiers and presidents, there seem to be dozens! Where was the real power and how did people know?
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In 1988 the execution technician Fred Leuchter gave a paper in court questioning the Holocaust (with David Irving - a Holocaust denier). It is influential on the far-right. Is the report a genuine attempt at scholarship flawed by incompetence, or a piece of politically motivated revisionism?
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What was the latest point in WW2 when the Allies either offered or considered (with evidence) a peace which would have allowed Hitler to remain in power in Germany?
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