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  1. AHC: Ireland an American State(s)?

    Beware! Nation-state history!

  2. CH: Continental Europe One Country

    Another problem: what's Russia? I quite often moan about how the English word encompasses two separate words in Russian (Rus'/Rossija) with distinct meanings; but the definition of both these things is mutable. Rossija in particular went back and forth went armies and governments. And it might...

  3. CH: Continental Europe One Country

    Yep: I'm not saying that marriages and births didn't direct the course of history - obvious they did - but they didn't direct it anywhere they liked and something so gigantic (both in itself and as a change) as a united continent doesn't depend on one bloke's fertility. I like to use my own...

  4. Why isEnglish a Germanic language?

    The joke was that I was speaking in Broad Scots.

  5. Worst army in 1940

    *judiciously saves the said*

  6. How Could the American Revolution have Turned "French"

    Remember, there was a very large literature in England portraying Scots as foreigners, and as agents of Jacobite-style tyranny for the Hanover regime (long before Scott, the English were confusing Highlander and Lowlander). So if we know that the American revolutionaries were starting out with...

  7. How Could the American Revolution have Turned "French"

    Scotland. The Hessians weren't actually deployed at the time; it meant Scots, especially Gaels. This was explicit in earlier drafts, says Devine. New perspectives, eh? :D

  8. CH: Stalin's a Good Guy

    That's the thing, though: it entails changing Stalin into a profoundly different kind of person at some point. The real trick - as EdT has shown with Cromwell, Mosley, and Winston Churchill - is to get basically the same person to occupy a profoundly different place in our cultural memory. So...

  9. CH: Stalin's a Good Guy

    No Stalin regime and the USSR obligingly does everything exactly the same? Nah. (To say nothing of a rather distorted diaspora-driven version of the collectivisation famine. Thousands of peasants were fleeing the famine. They were fleeing to cities in Ukraine and other parts of the USSR.)

  10. Why isEnglish a Germanic language?

    Och, jings. We are aware that not only have the Anglo-Saxons left us plenty of culture, but that they and the Britons, there is strong evidence, at times inhabited the same polities and mixed pretty freely? Enough of this absurd nationalist historiography. The Saxons arrived in the southeast...

  11. Why isEnglish a Germanic language?

    Actually the Britons had about the same opinion of the Gaels. ;)

  12. Why isEnglish a Germanic language?

    That's niver the suith o it. :p An thare's Frisian as wiel.

  13. AHC: An Even Worse WWI Outcome

    Guys, there were already Irish regiments, and Britain raised new battalions in existing regiments on the standard pattern, that was our military system. Like all our battalions, Irish ones were led by a group of men chosen for their ability to conjugate Latin verbs and play the bally game, but...

  14. Why isEnglish a Germanic language?

    My understanding of the latest consensus is that the northern Germanic migration (Angles, Saxons, and Jutes were at the centre but the exporting area was bigger than we thought and reached as far as Sweden, IIRC) started as small groups of mercenary foederati on European lines, but became a...

  15. Hitler's Post-war Plans

    It's not a 'Slavic holocaust' if by Holocaust we mean, as people seem to, gas chambers. It's what Calbear explains: an expansion of the Nazi policies already in effect, which had killed at least 20% of Belarussians in three-four years, so so much for a hundred. You don't need to tabulate...

  16. AH Challenge:After the 91 Coup,Have the other SSR's maintain the USSR without Russia.

    I don't think the idea of the OP is particularly plausible. But as it relates to Russian imperial history history I don't agree at all. Eighteenth-century Russian not only put up with elites that were non-Russian to one degree or another (the Baltic German and Polish cases are especially...

  17. AH Challenge:After the 91 Coup,Have the other SSR's maintain the USSR without Russia.

    Come again? I speak a bit of Russian and if I look at, say, this it's meaningless and I can immediately tell it's not Russian. In many SSRs largely Russophone urban communities appeared where the intermixture of people from different SSRs and the needs of professional of military-industrial...

  18. Hitler's Post-war Plans

    And we know what was achieved in Poland: a few traitors who declared that they belonged to fictitious Aryan peoples and were turned on by their communities; and mass kidnapping of children. Such an improvement. And so how are all the background checks and sessions with the Aryan...

  19. AH Challenge:After the 91 Coup,Have the other SSR's maintain the USSR without Russia.

    Speaking as an enthusiast and promoter of small languages, 'letting them learn' doesn't cover half of it. The Soviets were creating nations. There was very little native literature and literacy in Central Asia's newly-established languages, so they sent Tatar Bolsheviks their to establish it -...

  20. Hitler's Post-war Plans

    You're grossly misunderstanding the question. I mean what are the Nazis actually going to do? We know what's going to happen: the remains of the cities, and huge other areas, are going to be denied food. Millions of Ukrainians will be removed from Ukraine as slaves, as was already happening...
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