/u/nowlan101's posts in /r/AskHistorians
How much control did the Bolshevik government have over the Cheka? Were there any attempts to clear out those who were simply thugs? Did they attempt to reign in abuses?
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How credible are the accusations that Solidarity leader and future president Lech Wałesa was a mole for the Polish secret police in the 80’s?
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How did Catholics reconcile Christianity's opposition to incest with the fact many of their Kings and Queens were products of it?
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How has the historical perspective of “nature” in China changed over the millennia and between dynasties? Did they see it as something to live in harmony with or something that needed to be tamed?
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How true is it that most crime fiction in Communist countries was either non existent or extremely derivative from Western crime fiction? This was due to the fact that most of the countries were supposed to be "socialist utopias" where crime wasn't an issue.
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What were the reactions of the Catholic Church and those in the Vatican during the (mostly catholic) Ustashe’s reign of terror, ethnic cleansing, and forced in conversion in the former Yugoslavia?
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How soon after the popularization of tobacco from colonies like Jamestown do we see it in isolated countries like Japan?
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