Sry, but we as a societey have lost the great works of art that were propaganda posters, please if any president is reading this, fuking bring them back!!!! (But don't make them with ai tho, pay a fuking artist what they deserve)
The movie, based on a book writen by Vasily Zaitsev about his experience as a soviet sniper in stalingrad. But the american-european adaptation heavily alters the facts of the book, and propagates many miths about the red army in ww2.
First the scene were the rifles are given out we see how they have to share a rifle for every two soldiers. The reality is that by 1942 this was simply not true and only happened in minor roles by NKDV militia. But no soldiers were going into frontline battle without a rifle. This is something the producers would know if they bothered to read the fuking book.
The movie is plagued with more myths and inacuracies, but another important one i want to point out is the "no retreat" scene, were the soldiers are forced to advance by foot in a suicidal atack against german mecanised units. Of course the ofensive fails and they start retreating, until the komisars start shooting at their own soldiers for "betraying orders". The reality is that this is another blatent lie, and any ww2 red army veteran who was there would have been disgusted at such a thought. Firstly soviet deep battle theory would never throw light infantry against a mechanised squad, unlike how its often depicted. But also the shooting at retreating friendly soldiers only happened in penal batalions used for pinning atacks or smaller operations, but not for trained soldiers.
I am not a big fan of stalin myself, but even i can see how idiotic this movie is in its framing of the battle and the soviet regime. Even thogh its an entretaining movie, propagating these kinda myths about the red army can be really harmful to mainstream historical knowlege. They should have talked to ww2 veterans and tried to paint an actual picture instead of just repeating propaganda.
Anyways, love from spain✌️🇪🇸❤️
I have been a time on this sub and have seen people not really liking him, could yall in the comments explain to me why this is?
Sure he did do some bad things like making the entire economy into the corn version of cookie clicker and the way that he dealt with the hungarian crisis. But didnt gdp and the state services both grow during his time? Houses were built, rails were laid, schools built and industrial production recovered. So why exactly is it that people in this sub see him in such a negative light? I woukd really like to know. Peace ✌️
-also kinda unrelated, but why do yall say the hungarian revolution was a cia plot. I know what i studied in high school, and being from a spain pherhaps i didnt get told your side of the story, but i cant recall there being any american involvement outside of diplomatic pressure. Was this a genuine rebelion against communism or more a pinochet style "revolution' that actualy is just the rich and the army?
In 1989 the eastern bloc starts to colapse as the berlin wall falls. In a radical turn of events, the gdr turns to the house of hapsburg as a last dich atempt to legitimise their state in the post-cold war era. The return of the king is seen with apathy from nearly everywere, bit the strange decision prevails. The country survives initial termoil and slowly starts shifting towards the west with caution. East germany preserves its independence until 1993, were west germany offers a compromise on reunification: the hapsburgs get a constitutional monarchy and the east gains autonomy inside the dual monarchy of Gastria-Germungary. Soon austria and hungary, seing the formation of this new european bloc joint too. The workd has been fixed forever and nothing will ever go wrong innthis very plausible abd realistic scenario.
What would happen? Would the socialists restore a breznev-like authoritarian state and atempt to reasert its territory? Or would it instead be more moderate and implement a more moderate socialism like seen in the first years of gorbachev? Would the economy improve? How woukd US and china reach? Could nato expand regardless? Would yeltsin and the oposition acept the loss?
As you can clearly see, the changes implemented here prevent germany from restarting ww2.
En valencia, rodeados por grandes edificios y barcos de crucero, hay cientos de personas que pasan hambre cada noche, durmiendo en temperaturas extremas. Tienen que caminar a una fuente lejana en un cementerio para conseguir agua potable, y no tienen ni electricidad ni servicios basicos como medicina. Hoy he hablado con un hombre que lleva dos años con un tumor, pero por razones legales nadie se lo ha tratado y ahora le quedan unos meses de vida. Hay personas con diabetes y otras enfermedades que no consiguen ver a un medico ni pueden tener nada para tratarlo. A la gente le sorprendería la cantidad de personas aqui que trabajan, y como no tienen proteccion sindical ni representacion de ningun tipo, trabajan todo el dia en condiciones miserables por una paga de chiste.
Por suerte hay grupos como el banco de alimentos, que junto con voluntarios, ayudan a distribuir alimentos y medicina, pero mucha de esta gente esta sufriendo y nadie parece verlo. No importa que opiniones tengas sobre la imigracion ni los diferentes partidos, nadie debería estar sufiendo de esta forma en un pais del tercer mundo.
Any advice to improve looks in general is apreciated, also im really short (5'5) so any advice on how to get taller or look taller would be helpfull. Love from spain ❤️✌️
I tried to reshape europe in a way were most powers would strive to preserve the post war order. Italy would have its promised land, together with an austrian protectorate to prevent anchlus. These changes would lower the popularity of fascism and even if musolini still rises to power he would be less inclined to align with germany due to austria.
Germany would have less strict restrictions on the military and the overall reparations would be more moderate + no war guilt clause. But even if hitler does rise to power, he would not find many states willing to cooperate. Also the entente would dictate a constitucional monarchy be established with king peter at its head to aphease the german right.
The ussr is expanded west, furfiling most of its territorial ambitions, and also because of stalin's socialism in one country it would not sign molotov-ribentrop.
Yugoslavia and hungary are expanded, removing the destabilising force of bulgaria and making hungary more willing to cooperate as trianon was less harsh.
The united baltic republic is created in estonia and latvia acting as a unified force against any posible soviet expansion, while lithuania is put in a union with poland giving it sea acces. These states would cooperate as buffers between the soviets and the west.
So did i fix the paris peace deals o do i owe my teacher 20€?
Edit- if you have any critiques of the map please do so, but explain exactly why my map is shit instead of just saying it is. Btw i think i agree the pece deal in turkey would not last as ataturk might not acept those teritorial losses and would go to war. How can i fix it while protecting the greek and kurd minorities withink turkey?
This scenario might seem unrealistic, but i tried to make a scenario as realistic as posible parting from the POD.
I, 17M, have been for the past few weeks dating this girl, 19F, I really liked. I'm a huge flag nerd and love the history, symbolism and politics that can be found in evry. That is why when I met a girl with similar interests I just knew I had to shoot my shot. Supeisingly things went well at first, we hanged out a few times untill I gathered the courage to alk her on a date.
We had similar interests and she was really knowlegable so we had plenty to talk about. One thing that stood out to me though is how she always tried to avoid politics, and seemed uncomfortable when i brought up any related topic. I didn't give it much importance back then but now I realised I should have read between the lines.
Regardless I kept enjoying vexillology in my free time and things kept going on as usual. I personaly think the spanish republican flag is kinda lame, and as a spanish anti-monarchist i felt like it was my duty to make a cool redesign. So one day I spent a few hours working on it and after some editing I came up with this design. First I tried experimenting with the republican tricolour until finding that blue really fit well, also blue can represent liberty and justice, but can be given other interpretations so I stuck with it. I ended up making it this shape to diferenciate it from independentist movements like the catalan separatists. Then I pasted a variant of the republican emblem and finished the flag (it is not to be confused with the spanish CoA, this one represents spain without the monarchs). Any questions or feedback please comment.
I was super happy on how it turned out and was really proud. So the next day I showed her my my design, but to my surprise she seemed unimpressed. She shook it off and we continued chating but I sensed some tension and wanted to discuss it with her. We subsecuently got into an hour long argument that ended up with us breaking up. I don't want to give any specific details as this is the internet and sometimes redit can be a bit judgemental, but what she seemed most angry about was my politicsl beliefs (specificaly on the republicanism and leftism). I must admit I also got a bit taken away by the heat of the moment and said some mean things.
Now I'm sad as fuck and just lost my GF, but at least I got a cool spanish flag redesign.
Note: babe if you are reading this I'm sorry please let's talk
Edit: Many have asked in the comments about her politics. I don't want to get too specific but i'll just say it was not some PP fake centrism shit, she was a fan of paquito. This flag is totaly free to use as long as you credit me somehow and don't pass it off as your own.
Edit 2: why do people keep confusing this altered version of the republican CoA with the monarchist one? No, the thing on top is not a crown, but a symbol used by the spanish republic and shared in other non - monarchist flags like paris. This design is a variation of the republican emblem seen in the flag of the second republic.
Hi reddit (oh hell naw 💔🥀🙏😭)
So I bought a few weeks ago this book for like 30 bucks in an old store, cause i wanted some old books for my colection.
One that caught my eye was a 1807 book called “Easy Introduction to Arts and Sciences”, 12th edition, and now I think a man who has been dead for two centuries is ruining my mental wellbeing.
Here’s the situation:
The book is in good conditions, being readable and totaly intact after more than 200 years.
It somehow ended up in Valencia, Spain, and my simple curiosity brought me down a rabit hole that has me going crazy.
Inside, I found a stamp saying "Juan Gay Biblioteca” with the word “Voluntad” in the center. I tried searching in the internet and found nothing, but i am planing on searching public archives to discover who "juan gay" is.
There are also random math calculations inside that look like someone started doing homework, but i guess that won't get me any closer to uncoveri g the mistery.
My current theories, in order of increasing delusion are:
It arrived via sea trade in the 19th century after regular use in a british school (mostly because it has not been afected by humidity and the "juan gay" stamp looks really old so it is probably from the 19th cemtury too).
Juan Gay was most probably a private collector I asume, but i am dying to find out who the guy is and why did he have a random english school book.
I started off thinking it was some funny history research, but now i'm seriously running out of both cofee and pacience because of googling this dead guy fir weeks and read the book like 7 times and english is not even my furst language.
If anyone can give me any help or ideas on how to solve this I would be soooo thankfull. Reddit does not allow me to post photos but i am happy to give anyone photos in private or by message
Edit 1:I think i found who juan gay was(actually was called Joan Gay so that made my life a hell lot more complicated, it took a while untill I figured that one out). He was a late 19th century composer. He lived in madrid but being a musician he probably traveled a lot and might have been into book collecting. By the late 19th or early 20th century this was already a very old book with some significance, so he probably collected it in his personal library. Thanks for all the help in the comments by the way, if anyone finds were the stamp is from that could help in finding what was the library and from there find its journey
Edit 2: Another option is that juan gay is "Juan Mariano Gay Blazquez". He was a landowner who lived in the early 19th century, he did not have any titles but he clearly had money. Pherhaps he is our guy as he was wealthy and probably involved in trade. He most likeley knew many languages (english amongst them) and french as there is a french book about botanics with the same seal. Thanks to that one guy in the comments for that one.