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Lavrenti Beria is treated as one of the great villains of history, the worst of Stalin's henchmen. How much of that is reality, and how much is it Khrushchev creating a public scapegoat? NSFW

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What is the man in this picture wearing?

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What was the DelMarVa region like during the US Civil War?

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What did "foraging" mean in terms of a military foraging? Berry picking? Hunting? How did this compare with pillaging?

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Is the "shape" and structure of the language determined by the environment the way that an organism evolved due to the effects that environment?

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Is there any conceivable way that the Weimar Republic could have succeeded, and prevented the Communists or the Fascists from taking over?

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Lavrenti Beria is treated as one of the great villains of history, the worst of Stalin's henchmen. How much of that is reality, and how much is it Khrushchev creating a public scapegoat? NSFW	1255
What is the man in this picture wearing?	14
What was the DelMarVa region like during the US Civil War?	7
What did "foraging" mean in terms of a military foraging? Berry picking? Hunting? How did this compare with pillaging?	5
Is the "shape" and structure of the language determined by the environment the way that an organism evolved due to the effects that environment?	3
Is there any conceivable way that the Weimar Republic could have succeeded, and prevented the Communists or the Fascists from taking over?	1