Tag: wwii
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4,800 Nuclear Missiles On Alert With 5¼" Floppy Disks
John Oliver looks at our rotting ICBM infrastructure.
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Why Hitler Was Worse Than Stalin
“What would each leader have done, had they the unfettered means to do so?”
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Comparing the Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials
“The Nuremberg Trials were overseen by the Western European Allies, the United States, and the USSR. In Japan, the Tokyo Trials were unilaterally adjudicated by the United States. ”
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How Denying Black Soldiers FHA Loans Denied Black Families Post-War Prosperity
“America had a chance to fully bring the black community into the fold with every other ethnic group but instead we dropped the ball big time, leaving a lasting schism in our society.”
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The Japanese Katana and WWII
“Just like the fascist ideology, this sword attempts to imitate and utilise imagined glories from the past.”
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The Power Trap of Aryanism
“Being Aryan meant that everything that had gone wrong in the last generation or so wasn’t their fault.”
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How Baby Boomers Benefited from The Greatest Generation's Legacy, Then Tore it Down
Discussion on Reddit about the Boomer generation taking advantage of the social programs their parents created and then kicking the ladder away for everyone else: (a lot of generalizations) “Here’s my basic understanding of what went down: The generation that birthed the Baby Boomers suffered like hell. Depression, World War II; they shouldered that shit. […]