These are some of the podcasts I listen to... you can find them on itunes.
Podcasts are free... Mostly audio and of varying quality.
One of my favourites... Its hard, warts and all history he doesn't cover up the brutality and horror of the past.
Mike Duncan's The History of Rome
This podcast is the grandfather of History Podcasts and the bar by all other history podcasts are judged... Mike is one of the first and you can hear the evolution in the quality of sound and format as he goes along. Mike is charming and his history is well researched and delivered.
The British History Podcast and The History of Byzantium Podcast are the successors to The History of Rome Podcast.
I am also enjoying the following:
When diplomacy Fails Podcast
The China History Podcast
The History of WWII Podcast
and the Ancient World Podcast
Wow! thanks for the excellent suggestions!
I've been looking for some good history listening and watching.
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Happy International Women's Day!
Which is also the 96th anniversary of the February Revolution and the overthrow of the Romanovs.
For women's liberation through international proletarian socialist revolution!
Vive le Galt!
Heroes of Revolutionary Socialism
Alexandra Kollontai was a Russian communist revolutionary.
Here she is at age 6, isn't she cute?
Kollontai spent her entire life working for the cause of the emancipation of women through worker's revolution. She is famous today among left-wing commie types for: a) getting involved in a legendary dispute with Lenin about hawt sex; and b) forming the Worker's Opposition inside the Communist Party with her comrade Alexander Shliapnikov.
I don't know how she survived the Stalinist terror, (Shliapnikov was arrested a bunch of times and then executed for his political activities--I like to imagine that he kept the Worker's Opposition alive to the very end, but I don't know for a fact, either way, hats off) but she later served as Soviet ambassador to Sweden, I think, and other places.
I imagine that surviving Stalinism must have been something like surviving the Holocaust, and I refuse to judge Comrade Kollontai's later Stalinist sycophancy. She did important work in defense of the Soviet Union and I doff my cap.
[Raises left fist and sings The Internationale]
I, of course, am very interested in this article but the link seems weird. Let's try this.
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Yeah, I thought you might like the early evidence of oppression of the masses, CA. Thanks for the link fix. Saw this originally on a documentary. Never heard of it prior, although it was found 40 years ago. Possibly one of those things that only really made it do the west after the end of the Cold War. Or, I might just be clueless.
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For women's liberation through international proletarian socialist revolution!
Vive le Galt!
The chances that anyone is going to read this whole article are pretty slim, I realize, so I thought I'd highlight my favorite part:
"The Code also established the right of all children to parental support until age 18 and the right of each spouse to his or her own property. In implementing the Code’s measures, judges were biased in favor of women and children, on the grounds that establishing support for the child took priority over protecting the financial interests of the male defendant. In one case, a judge split child support three ways, because the mother had been sleeping with three different men."
Goblins do it in the factory barracks!
Cemetery in Varna, Bulgaria shows social elite stratification in fifth melenium BCE.
You know, it's probably just a case of a how a little information is dangerous, but everything I learn about history just makes me more and more believe in communism.
Cemetery in Varna, Bulgaria shows social elite stratification in fifth melenium BCE.You know, it's probably just a case of a how a little information is dangerous, but everything I learn about history just makes me more and more believe in communism.
The interesting thing is there never has been a true Communist state..... For Marxism to work you needed either England or Germany to have the revolution, you needed educated industrial workers not uneducated peasants.
England was too successful appeasing the lower classes and Germany zigged when it should of zagged.
But we should have that conversation in your fun time thread....
Like I said before I am a Fabian, the revolution is happening just slowly so nobody will notice until it has happened.
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the revolution is happening just slowly so nobody will notice until it has happened.
I'm about as anti-communist as you can get... and I couldn't agree with this more.
There actually has been a successful Marxist Society. They just aren't classified as it do to the fact that Marxism isn't considered a legitimate government. Communism is. Marxism isn't. WTF? Now lets see if I can dig up that countries information...
Intriguing... Orthos/Azaelas, none of my business particularly, but both those posts interest me a great deal for entirely different reasons. Would be good to know more, but this may not be the thread for it.
Meanwhile, There's an exhibition of Ice Age art at the British Museum at the moment
I can tell you that the nation I mentioned makes Switzerland or Sweden, whatever the neutral Nation is that is famous for its military, look undefended. And they use nothing but Surplus Russian, American, and German WWI/WWII equipment alongside Swords, Spears, Shields, and Bows. They have only ever had one war and that was to keep an Ex-USSR Nation from Annexing them. It lasted 12 Hours and they lost 1 man and had 15 injuries ranging from a blinded eye to a broken leg.
Source: The Collected History of a True Marxist Society.
It should also be noted that they actually supported the Bolshevik Rebellion.
Ok I broke my rule and talked politics in this thread....
Please refocus on history and somebody start a politics is cool thread.
That is the subtitle in english. As to the Country's name I am trying to find a translation from their Russian based Dialect. But to do that I have to figure out how to get the correct Russian Letters. And word has all but 5.
I am pointing out this countries aiding in historical events. Though it is kind of funny that they took in refugees from the Holocaust but where technically on no side and Hilter actually took action to avoid dealing with this nation because he wasn't sure how to handle their typical tactics of combined infantry assaults and the fact that Tanks would have a hard time in their terrain but no where near as difficult as Casino.
What the hell, I feel like wasting my intellect a little. We are told:
I can tell you that the nation I mentioned makes Switzerland or Sweden, whatever the neutral Nation is that is famous for its military, look undefended.
Switzerland is the neutral European nation most known for its military. (Also: Nazi gold.) But this obviously isn't them.
What Azaelas has given us is actually quite specific. We have a nation that is neutral, fought a very brief war with a former Soviet republic, was also neutral in WWII, and has mountainous terrain.
We can, of course, exclude any European nation that Hitler attacked or that allied with him. (This really narrows it down.) We can also exclude any nation involved in actively fighting him. Neutral powers in Europe in the 40s:
Switzerland
Sweden
Spain
Portugal
All of these countries have had wars far longer than twelve hours. None of these countries has had a war with a former Soviet republic. I excluded the European microstates because they owe their entire existence to their usefulness as tax dodges, but obviously none of them has gone to war with a former Soviet republic either.
Furthermore, it beggars belief that Azaelas both has enough English to write the posts he does and does not have enough to Google country names in his native language to find their English translations or, failing that, look them up in a bilingual dictionary.
I am an American. My native languages are English and Gaeiac. I know of this nation because I have dealt with people from there. And you have to realize those microstates aren't just there do to Tax Dodges and crap like that. Heck, a LOT of microstates have been around longer than America has been a country. (~200 Years).
Remember what they say about Assuming.
It borders what used to be the U.S.S.R. and is literally only a fraction larger than the Vatican City...
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IIRC, it's called Latveria.
I, too, have had dealings....with...the one called.....
Dooooooooooom......
You lost me...
Nope. That one I do recognize. I can tell you this one mostly just produces things for themselves... They have little to no trading. At least the last I have heard of their economy.
It borders what used to be the U.S.S.R. and is literally only a fraction larger than the Vatican City...
I'm afraid there are no microstates in any location either bordering or inside what used to be the USSR.
The smallest country within former soviet orbit would be Armenia, which is about 30,000 sq km, whereas the Vatican is less than 0,5 sq kms.
Even among non-recognized nation such as Abkhazia (which I believe is the smallest non-recognized nation in former soviet orbit, at about 8,000 sq kms), none fits the criteria of being a fraction larger than the Vatican.
Perhaps it is another European microstate?
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I am an American. My native languages are English and Gaeiac. I know of this nation because I have dealt with people from there. And you have to realize those microstates aren't just there do to Tax Dodges and crap like that. Heck, a LOT of microstates have been around longer than America has been a country. (~200 Years).
Remember what they say about Assuming.
You know of the nation so well that you can't name it. This is why we consider your anatomy chiefly of interest to scatologists. I'm sorry, but assuming you were not a native English speaker was an act of charity on my part. I shan't make that mistake again.
I would say you are talking about Transnistria but for the fact that it resembles barely any of your historical description. Hitler did not opt not to invade it. It was not neutral in WWII; it was part of Hitler's ally Romania. Hitler did not avoid invading it because its might scared him off. It was not neutral in the Cold War; it was part of the USSR. It did have a war with a former Soviet republic, but that war went on for considerably more than twelve days and resulted in hundreds dead.
Furthermore, Moldova was not trying to annex Transnistria. It already owned the land. Rather it was trying to suppress a separatist movement. Likewise Transnistria is more than fractionally larger than Vatican City, clocking in at more than four thousand square kilometers to the Vatican's 0.44.
I'll give it to you, Transnistria fits all your description if we ignore almost all of them and the chief substantive parts of the rest. Also up is down, black is white, and short is long by the same standards.
At the very least, you are exceptionally misinformed. Your bizarre refusal to name the nation suggests that you know as much and are hoping not to be sniffed out.
Or it could be I can't speak/read Russian nor can I find a translation for this Dialect. And the fact that people don't realize there are over 500 Autonomous Nations in the world. Only ~200 are recognized as being such by "The Powers That Be"*.
*The Powers That Be: The United Nations.
Do you know what this place physically looks like on a map?
I seen a map a while back. From what I remember it looked like a Waning Crescent Moon with small offshoots on the Outside part of the curve. IIRC What was explained to me was the terrain around it is rocky hills with the offshoots being farmland that they cultivated. With the main part being Farmlands & Gardens mixed in with houses and Artisan-style Shops.
EDIT: I told you wrong. The usable terrain, that is what they can use for farming and such, is only a little larger than the Vatican City. The total terrain they control is almost 3 times the size of the Vatican City. But most of it goes up a larger Rocky Hill on the inside of the Crescent.
So could you identify it if someone linked or posted a picture?
Also, is it impossible from the dialect to identify the western neighbor?
Yes, I probably could or could say it looks similar. It has been around 2-3 Years since I seen a picture.
The Dialect is used mainly by a Russian Sub-culture. Sort of how there is a Irish, Scottish, Gaulish/Gaulic, and Germanic Dialects of Gaelic.
Also this language is present in nearly all of the (Former) Soviet Nations in the European and Middle East areas of the U.S.S.R.'s territories. This nation was founded, IIRC, by Russian refugees that basically chose to leave Russia instead of fight like the Bolsheviks.
Cemetery in Varna, Bulgaria shows social elite stratification in fifth melenium BCE.You know, it's probably just a case of a how a little information is dangerous, but everything I learn about history just makes me more and more believe in communism.
My apologies, Comrade Dwarf, I thought my statement was amusing and somewhat self-deprecating, didn't mean to start a politics derail.
Otoh, though, me being me, most of my history posts are going to have a slight slant to them...
For example...Countess Constance Markievicz Anglo-Irish revolutionary, first woman elected (but refused to serve) in the British Parliament.
I only discovered her yesterday through the footnotes in an article by Alexandra Kollontai, but I asked an Irish comrade at our International Women's Day event in Boston, and he said she was pretty cool...
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"I do wish your lot had the decency to shoot me."
Vive le Galt!
Azaleas, can you put up a link or show the country's name in cyrillic? That's the Russian alphabet if you didn't know. A fair number here could transliterate that for you if they saw it.
Come on, Samnell, there really is no need for that kind of attitude.
Azaleas, do you remember if at least the nation was on the northern or southern part of the USSR's European border (from your description, I'm assuming the country has to be European)?
Was it a nation currently in existence, or more like an unrecognized territory (akin to Chechnya or Abkhazia)?
I, uh, hate to join a pigpile, but I am also skeptical of Citizen Fayth's claims.
In an effort to help, though:
Autonomous republics of the USSR
Autonomous oblasts of the USSR
Autonomous okrugs of the USSR
Come on, Samnell, there really is no need for that kind of attitude.
I quite agree, but I think I mean it in the opposite direction. It's probably encouraging Azaleas.
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I'd give him a lot more leeway, if this was the first time he'd claimed some kind of secret information that he couldn't substantiate or even name the source of.Come on, Samnell, there really is no need for that kind of attitude.I quite agree, but I think I mean it in the opposite direction. It's probably encouraging Azaleas.
Yeah, I recall the other thread too. I ought to have mentioned it for context.
I can't get my laptop to correctly display the Characters. All I get from typing the closest thing into any of the three translators I have throws up a bunch of Gibberish and those square boxes that show up when a character can't be displayed...
The nation is North of Germany I can say that much for certain. It probably would be closer to an Unrecognized Territory. I think it was once called an Autonomous Soviet City State. Finally AFAIK it is still around.
I should also note that the book I have is printed August 19, 1957. Who knows how it might have changed. Heck, it might have been annexed by another Soviet Separatist State.
Also if you are referring to the Kelt Discussion it was the IHS Database.
Do you mean Kaliningrad, perhaps ?
Not as far as I can see...
Okay I had an idea. Are you in physical possession of this book still?
Do you have a camera capable of snapping a picture then linking it to the thread?
Nope... I am a bit to rough on my Phone and too poor to replace it r have a Digital Camera...
To the north of Germany are Denmark, the North Sea, and the Baltic Sea.
Do you have access to a scanner?
I can't get my laptop to correctly display the Characters. All I get from typing the closest thing into any of the three translators I have throws up a bunch of Gibberish and those square boxes that show up when a character can't be displayed...
The nation is North of Germany I can say that much for certain. It probably would be closer to an Unrecognized Territory. I think it was once called an Autonomous Soviet City State. Finally AFAIK it is still around.
I should also note that the book I have is printed August 19, 1957. Who knows how it might have changed. Heck, it might have been annexed by another Soviet Separatist State.
Also if you are referring to the Kelt Discussion it was the IHS Database.
Well, if it was printed on 1957, then it would have had the USSR as it was at the time. The USSR at the time was composed of (in their respetive Soviet Socialist Republic versions):
-Armenia
-Azerbaijan
-Byelorussia
-Estonia
-Georgia
-Kazakhstan
-Kirghizstan
-Latvia
-Lithuania
-Moldavia
-Russia
-Tajikistan
-Turkmenistan
-Ukraine
-Uzbekistan
There were some other Soviets that had already ceases to exist by that time:
-Abkhazia (folded into Georgia)
-Transcaucassia (mix of Armenia, Abkhazia and Georgia. Dissolved back into those states later)
-Khorezm (was later split between Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan)
-Bukharan (same as Khorezm)
-Karelo-Finland (folded into Russia)
Of that list, including the ones which had disappeared, the smallest would be Abkhazia, which is several thousands of times larger than the Vatican and is on the Caucassus. Only Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Karelo-Finland were north of Germany, and all of those are larger. Kaliningrad would be the only relatively small territory in the area (still thousands of times bigger than the Vatican), but then again Kaliningrad was part of Russia proper.
If we go down one level, into the Autonomous Republics of the USSR, we find several more. Focusing specifically on the European side, we find:
-Adyghe
-Bashkir
-Chuvash
-Crimea
-Dagestan
-Kabardino-Balkar
-Kalmyk
-Karelia
-Komi
-Mari
-Mordovia
-The Mountain Territories
-North Osetia
-Tatar
-Udmurt
-Volgo-German State
Of those, North Osetia is the smallest, still 16,000 times bigger than the Vatican. If the further stick to the limitation of being north of Germany, only Karelia fits, and that was a pretty big territory (though the Finnish/Karelians are well known for stepping up to the Soviets).
On the Autonomous Oblast level, of those located in Europe we have (not including the aforementioned Autonomous Republics that used to be Autonomous Oblasts):
-Karachay-Cherkessia
-Chechenya
-Chechen-Ingushetia
-Cherkess
-Ingushetia
-Komi-Zyryan
-Polish Autonomous Districts (Marchlewszczyzna and Dzierżyńszczyzna)
From that list, the smallest would be Ingushetia, at about 3,000 sqkm, though it was not north of Germany. While the Polish Autonomous Districts seem like a closer candidate, as they were experimental and some times proposed to extend to specific villages, all the sources I can find speak of "at least a hundred villages" located in them, which seems to suggest a size substantially larger than the Vatican. They did, furthermore, manage to resist both the forced atheism and collectivism imposed by the Soviets, and were disbanded in the 30's, so that would discualify them as a "succesful Marxist society".
On the Autonomous Okrug level, none were in Europe (and couldn't have been featured in the book, as they only gained that status in the 70's).
And that's it. If it is not on the list, I believe you must be missing some detail somewhere, because nothing else fits with the criteria.
Man, I never thought I'd say it, but even I am getting bored with talking about (imaginary?) parts of the Soviet bloc.
George Harrison, Ronald Reagan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Helen Keller, Plagiarism and Memory
Don't know if it's really about history, but it was a good read.
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Man, I never thought I'd say it, but even I am getting bored with talking about (imaginary?) parts of the Soviet bloc.
George Harrison, Ronald Reagan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Helen Keller, Plagiarism and Memory
Don't know if it's really about history, but it was a good read.
You are just jealous because there was no Goblin Autonomous Oblast.
[Throws hissy fit]
Frickin' narrow-minded Stalinist bureaucrats!