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May
6
revised What were the Nazi racial views on Hungarians and the Japanese?
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May
6
revised What were the Nazi racial views on Hungarians and the Japanese?
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May
5
comment How did China go from “inventing” to reverse-engineering?
There was more than millennium without the both.
May
3
comment What was the role of the Soviet Navy during WWII?
@jwenting source?
May
3
comment What was the role of the Soviet Navy during WWII?
@Barry the Black Sea figure of 508 includes transports.
May
2
comment What aspects of Soviet life were not controlled by Stalin?
Are you seeking to learn about some kind of opposition to Stalin and Communist ideology?
May
2
comment Why did the USSR give Crimea to Ukraine?
@jwenting what fraction of the Crimea's population were Tatars before the war?
May
2
comment Why did the USSR give Crimea to Ukraine?
How the deportation of the Tatars affected it being an economic disaster zone?
May
2
comment Why did the Germans fall behind the Americans in the development of the atomic bomb after an initial lead?
do you mean heavy water rather than hard water?
May
1
comment Why were people from the Asian Steppes able to militarily dominate Europeans on a repeated basis?
I highly doubt that there was a period when Germanic peoples lived in Asia. The proto-Germanic Urheimat was in Scandinavia and modern-day Denmark. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/…
May
1
comment Is there any evidence that the catholic church reduced innovation during the middle ages?
@ihtkwot of course it was not a Church's innovation. The Church itself originates as a corporation under Empire's corporate law.
Apr
27
revised Was Hitler's genocide of the Jews “different” from other mass killings?
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Apr
27
comment Was Hitler's genocide of the Jews “different” from other mass killings?
@J. Katzwinkel indeed, there were differences. Surely this answer can be expanded. For example, in Iraq's case the life to life was not generally violated (the atrocities were preceded by a massive announcement/warning campaign to make the Kurds to leave the prohibited areas so that the abiding Kurds were not mostly affected).
Apr
27
reviewed Reject suggested edit on Is speaking Russian a privileged lingual habit in Ukraine nowadays?
Apr
27
comment Is speaking Russian a privileged lingual habit in Ukraine nowadays?
@Persian Cat so they wrote in forbidden language on Soviet rubles?
Apr
27
comment Is speaking Russian a privileged lingual habit in Ukraine nowadays?
"it was forbidden to talk, write, learn, teach, play or publish in Ukrainian in the Ukraine" - any source for this claim?
Apr
26
comment Why did Germany attack Neutral Belgium in the first world war?
Such request is called "ultimatum".
Apr
26
comment Was Hitler's genocide of the Jews “different” from other mass killings?
@Sardathrion from Stalin's correspondence it is clear that the famine was undesirable for him and he questioned the subordinates for the causes. The famine did not affect only Ukrainians.
Apr
26
comment Was Hitler's genocide of the Jews “different” from other mass killings?
@Sardathrion there was no deliberate in the alleged killing of Ukrainians, neither it was targeting any ethnic group. Regarding Mongols in Chine, I think it could be included, but I have little information about this event (I considered inclusion of Mongols' killings in Russia though).
Apr
26
comment Was Hitler's genocide of the Jews “different” from other mass killings?
@Nathan Cooper I understand the question as "what makes the Holocaust unique" so I think besides numbers other things may be considered (international cooperation, ethical justification etc).