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When in history did the firebombings of Dresden, Hamburg, Tokyo, etc. start being considered as disproportionate?

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During the Holocaust, what was the total number of people who were actively participating in the killings?

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The Kansai region was the original home of the Imperial Family of Japan, right? Well then, how did Kansai-ben evolve into the "informal blue collar" accent, and Kanto-ben become the "cultivated formal accent"?

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This is an odd one...are there any Japanese-language sources going over "State Showa" and the fanaticism of Japanese people toward the emperor?

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Who attacked Latvia and Lithuania in January of 1991? Red Army troops under direct orders from Gorbachev, or wayward OMON paramilitaries who acted without authorization from the Kremlin?

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Why was there no Leipzig Massacre in 1989? Why did the troops Honecker sent to massacre protesters retreat?

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I've heard on Reddit that the 1984 famine in Ethiopia that triggered Bob Geldof to organize Live Aid was a sort of holodomor, a deliberate famine orchestrated by Mengistu by withholding western food aid to rebellious areas of Ethiopia. Is there any evidence of this?

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Japan has a small land mass (378,000 sq km, of which 85% is mountainous) and very few natural resources. How did it become such a fecund, powerful nation? (127M people, $4.57T GDP)

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Why was there no Leipzig Massacre in 1989? Why did the troops Honecker sent to massacre protesters retreat?

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At the time, were the Allied firebombings of German and Japanese cities also seen as war crimes?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
When in history did the firebombings of Dresden, Hamburg, Tokyo, etc. start being considered as disproportionate?	208
During the Holocaust, what was the total number of people who were actively participating in the killings?	58
The Kansai region was the original home of the Imperial Family of Japan, right? Well then, how did Kansai-ben evolve into the "informal blue collar" accent, and Kanto-ben become the "cultivated formal accent"?	46
This is an odd one...are there any Japanese-language sources going over "State Showa" and the fanaticism of Japanese people toward the emperor?	14
Who attacked Latvia and Lithuania in January of 1991? Red Army troops under direct orders from Gorbachev, or wayward OMON paramilitaries who acted without authorization from the Kremlin?	13
Why was there no Leipzig Massacre in 1989? Why did the troops Honecker sent to massacre protesters retreat?	12
I've heard on Reddit that the 1984 famine in Ethiopia that triggered Bob Geldof to organize Live Aid was a sort of holodomor, a deliberate famine orchestrated by Mengistu by withholding western food aid to rebellious areas of Ethiopia. Is there any evidence of this?	10
Japan has a small land mass (378,000 sq km, of which 85% is mountainous) and very few natural resources. How did it become such a fecund, powerful nation? (127M people, $4.57T GDP)	7
Why was there no Leipzig Massacre in 1989? Why did the troops Honecker sent to massacre protesters retreat?	5
At the time, were the Allied firebombings of German and Japanese cities also seen as war crimes?	5