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21h	comment	How did Greece avoid the Soviet sphere of influence? of course the Soviets were heavily involved, but through their proxies.
1d	comment	What were the crime rates In the American Old West? Don't forget that a lot of crime in the old west has since been glorified so it gets blown way out of proportion in reporting. Far more interesting to make a movie or novel about a farm if there's cattle rustlers, Indian attacks, bank robbers, and other vagrants providing a constant backdrop to the drudge of subsistence farming, scraping a meagre living out of the earth, hoping the rains will come in time and not lead to a mudslide destroying your barn like happened 3 out of the last 5 years.
1d	answered	Why were “holding out” outposts a feature of the European war in 1944-5 but not 1940-1?
1d	comment	What did contemporary countries in Europe call the Ottoman Empire? of course outside of diplomatic channels the names used were probably far less complimentary... things like "those bloody musselmen", "darn turks", etc. were no doubt rather more common in the streets, especially during the frequent wars involving the ottomans.
1d	comment	Did Germany produce plutonium using cyclotrons? indeed it would be, making it highly unlikely it even existed. But then again he had a Jewish name which may well have been enough to get many to discredit him on general principle. Unlikely in the extreme, but that's the kind of reasoning we're dealing with here. These guys are impossible to please as whatever evidence you present for them being false they'll claim you're wrong because of some triviality that might possibly, in a dream world, be feasible.
2d	comment	Did the U.S. and Soviet Union have a submarine battle in 1968? @YannisRizos "absolutely no reason" doesn't apply in international waters, which are by definition free to the transit of all vessels, military or civilian. Unless the sub was in someone's territorial waters (or maybe a declared and recognised ADIZ) it could go where it pleased and nobody can legally tell it it has no business there.
2d	comment	A memorial Georgia (U.S.) plaque 1) I've no evidence, it's based on my knowledge of the makeup of the US armed forces in those conflicts. 2) it'd just get downvoted by the usual suspects anyway.
2d	comment	Was Horst Tappert a member of the SS? @Anvar given the nature of German society in the 3rd Reich, you can safely assume that any men who was a teenager or adult from the mid 1930s to the mid 1940s spent time in either the HJ, SS, military, or other state agencies (SD, Gestapo, SA, etc.). Few exceptions would be those vital for the nation's industry or scientific establishment, and most of them would have had at least honorary rank in one of those agencies.
2d	comment	A memorial Georgia (U.S.) plaque my guess is they'd use conscription numbers for WW2, while for the other wars there was a large section of professional troops where it's hard to tell whether they're from your state or not. Do you count birth, last home as a civilian, or last US based posting before being sent overseas?
2d	comment	How true is the statement “Soviet troops got into Berlin riding American trucks, walking in American boots and using American trains”? and the percentage of logistical equipment rather than weapons systems increased over time until at the end of the war it was the vast majority of aid, allowing the entire Soviet industrial effort to focus on productions of weapons and munitions.
2d	comment	Did Germany produce plutonium using cyclotrons? of course they were talking about a U235 bomb, there COULD have been a separate program to create a Pu239 bomb (the principles are different enough two teams can work on them without one knowing about the other) that those guys knew nothing about (though why you'd keep the scientific teams separate rather than just the engineering teams, beats me). Which is what the conspiracy theorists like Klabsch would claim.
Jun 14	comment	Did Germany produce plutonium using cyclotrons? and note that the BBC article states that the guy himself indicates he has no evidence, yet is certain it happened... He's come to that conclusion based on rumours and conjecture, no actual documents (in fact he seems to consider the lack of documents evidence for the validity of his claim).
Jun 14	revised	Did Germany produce plutonium using cyclotrons? corrected typographical errors
Jun 14	comment	Did Germany produce plutonium using cyclotrons? @Joe Germany is known to have conducted nuclear weapons research during WW2, maybe the "tested a nuclear weapon" is a mistranslation, or the dates are wrong. The fact that he mentions a "tactical nuclear weapon" pretty much confirms that, as the term didn't exist at the time and the GDR post-WW2 are also known to have had a nuclear weapons program and to probably have tested at least weapons components (but AFAIK never conducted a full scale test, though they might of course have been involved in Soviet test programs).
Jun 14	comment	Did the U.S. and Soviet Union have a submarine battle in 1968? typical Anixx comment. They Holy Communist and the Evil Capitalist.
Jun 14	comment	Did the U.S. and Soviet Union have a submarine battle in 1968? if the Soviets had any evidence a US ship was involved in the sinking of one of their ships they'd have made a major stink, fact they didn't is enough to show they didn't have any such evidence. They would obviously think it (they were that paranoid), but no more. See what happened to the Kursk decades later, there they openly blamed the west without any evidence whatsoever and were made to look massively foolish.
Jun 14	comment	How high was the morale of non-Soviet Warsaw Pact states' armies and governments in the '80s? in fact it's just a rewording of his exact prior question which was closed...
Jun 14	comment	How true is the statement “Soviet troops got into Berlin riding American trucks, walking in American boots and using American trains”? answered in large part here: history.stackexchange.com/questions/8687/… might even be considered a duplicate.
Jun 14	answered	Did Germany produce plutonium using cyclotrons?
Jun 13	comment	How much time would have been required to launch a nuclear counterstrike? And one that can't be answered without knowing when, where, and what conditions we have to take into account. And even then would likely need information classed Top Secret or higher to get more than a semi-educated guess. You can't even say it would be intended to happen within the flight time of the incoming strike, as that flight time would depend on the weapons used in the strike. An SLBM strike would give only 5-7 minutes between launch and impact, an ICBM strike 20 minutes or so, a bomber strike hours.