[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;48409133]What's the context?[/QUOTE]
[url]https://storify.com/tcdailyplanet/thousands-fill-mall-of-america-chanting-black-live[/url]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/Dfbot0R.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]1941 poster urging French people to make more babies[/QUOTE]
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ac/Medaillesdelafamilefrancaise.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]The French government implemented medal to reward women who had large families[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=godfatherk;48409583][t]http://i.imgur.com/Dfbot0R.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Proof that the Germans were engineering Uberbabies to attack France
[t]http://i.imgur.com/82BZ8Xl.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]1864 Propaganda poster[/QUOTE]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/57w4fd1.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE][1930's-40's] SS Recruiting Poster from Belgium[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]"Vote, or you shall lose!". Anti-communist posters of Boris Yeltsin's re-election campaign, Russia, 1996[/QUOTE]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/ig4oFHY.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/yfxJIWf.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/mI2CubV.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]With low support, Yeltsin resorted to some means to realize the turnaround: money, control of the mass media, use of "black arts" to disrupt the Communists' campaign and manipulation of the vote count.[1] Russia's [B]electoral law limited campaign spending to $3 million for each candidate[/B]. The Communist Party did not have the financial resources to overspend the limit. However, [B]estimates of the funds spent by the Yeltsin campaign range from $700 million to $2 billion.[/B] A huge amount of money was raised by oligarchs and other business interests. An even larger sum was made available indirectly by the West. Urged by the United States, the [B]International Monetary Fund granted a $10.2 billion loan to Russia in February and enabled the government to spend huge sums paying long-owed back wages and pensions[/B] to millions of Russians, with some overdue checks arriving shortly before the June election.[1][B]
By the first half of 1996, all of the major mass media, both electronic and print, were controlled either by oligarchs or the state. It waged an information war in favor of Yeltsin and against Zyuganov.[/B] It sent messages that if Zyuganov elected, Russia would be sent back to the days of Stalin's gulag, reinforced by long television documentaries about the Stalin era repressions. [B]The media also implied that if Communists take the presidency, a coup d'état by Yeltsin and a civil war would follow.[/B][1]
The tactics adopted by Chubais campaign team included cancellation of hotel reservations made by the Zyuganov campaign, issuing false invitations to Zyuganov press conferences with the wrong times, and the publication and distribution of fake extremist Communist programs.[1]
The first round of election began on 16 June 1996. Two days after the first round, Yeltsin appointed former general Alexander Lebed, who had finished third with 14.5% of vote, to the post of Secretary of Security Council of the Russian Federation and the President's National Security Advisor.[2] Lebed in turn endorsed Yeltsin in the runoff election.[B] Meanwhile, Yeltsin suffered from a serious heart attack and disappeared from public view. His condition was kept secret through 3 July second round election. During this period of time, Yeltsin's campaign team created a "virtual Yeltsin" shown in the media through staged interviews that never happened and pre-recorded radio addresses.[/B][/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE]At a meeting with opposition leaders in 2012, then-president Dmitri Medvedev was reported to have said, "There is hardly any doubt who won [that race]. It was not Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin."[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=godfatherk;48409703][t]http://i.imgur.com/82BZ8Xl.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
It's so bizarre to think that 'We will defeat equality' was actually a direct policy to be interpreted as positive by their voters. It's just so surreal to modern minds.
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In relation to the Yeltsin thing, I found [url=http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/virtual-doctors-treat-yeltsin-in-cyberspace/283653.html]this fascinating 1998 article[/url]. The whole text of this is so very different from modern writing, especially about the Internet.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/LNSfJ9n.jpg[/t]
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[QUOTE=Jamsponge;48410018]It's so bizarre to think that 'We will defeat equality' was actually a direct policy to be interpreted as positive by their voters. It's just so surreal to modern minds.
[editline]8th August 2015[/editline]
In relation to the Yeltsin thing, I found [url=http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/virtual-doctors-treat-yeltsin-in-cyberspace/283653.html]this fascinating 1998 article[/url]. The whole text of this is so very different from modern writing, especially about the Internet.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]A visitor from Spain suggested "Drink more vodka, Borya!" while a user in Vladivostok wanted to know "What's the point of making him well again?"[/QUOTE]
[editline]8th August 2015[/editline]
[t]https://i.imgur.com/s9fslQI.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=godfatherk;48409077][t]http://i.imgur.com/M61mneH.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Well when you deploy entire armored divisions into a jungle region you're gonna get that result.
[QUOTE=elitehakor;48409392][url]https://storify.com/tcdailyplanet/thousands-fill-mall-of-america-chanting-black-live[/url][/QUOTE]
Well you don't have a right to assemble on private property, and the MOA has every right to kick your dumb ass out for interrupting business.
[t]https://i.imgur.com/bsziM45.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]This seemingly peaceful motif shows a Russian woman that has to cross a passage as a human mine detector. This brutal practice was cynically called "Mine Search Machine 42" in the Wehrmacht. [/QUOTE]
[t]https://i.imgur.com/BktJCrc.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]That the Red Army was fielding women was highly fascination to German soldiers - which expressed itself in the many photos of captured female soldiers. This practice of the Soviets ran counter to the propaganted image of a "manly" war.[/QUOTE]
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[t]http://i.imgur.com/BxgZTWo.jpg?1[/t]
[QUOTE]A Wounded Russian Soldier drifts past a 152mm Howitzer battery firing during the Belorussian Offensive Operation, 1944[/QUOTE]
[editline]8th August 2015[/editline]
[t]https://i.imgur.com/mOl41Xd.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Selfie with a fallen US surveillance drone
crashes may be followed up with an air strike to keep tech out of rivals' hands.[/QUOTE]
It's strange to think that selfies and phone videos will be the future of wartime photography. If there is ever another global conflict, the most famous pictures probably won't be taken by professional photographers, but by amateurs in the right place at the right time with the right device in their pocket.
[QUOTE=godfatherk;48410197][t]https://i.imgur.com/s9fslQI.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
crikey thats a lot of rays
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f6/Smoke_break_el_serrano_1987.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE] ARDE Frente Sur Commandos take a smoke break after routing FSLN base at El Serrano. Southeast Nicaragua 1987.[/QUOTE]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/k4aOW7Y.jpg[/t]
speaking of the US pointlessly sowing chaos :(
[IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Mohammad_Mosaddeq%2C_Ahmadabad_1965.jpg[/IMG]
[quote]Mohammad Mosaddeq under house arrest in the twilight years of his life. The first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran from 1951-1953, he attracted islamists, secularists, students and the working poor to his vision of a constitutional and economically independent Iran before a CIA and MI6 orchestrated coup would depose him from office.[/quote]
[img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/NqvBizN.jpg[/img_thumb]
[quote]Religious services under the blasted flight deck of the USS Franklin (CV-13), for the 807 men killed from two bomb blasts while off the coast of Japan. The only American warship to suffer greater losses was the battleship Arizona at Pearl Harbor. March 1945 by R. Woodward, USNR. [/quote]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/cDKTEue.jpg[/img]
[quote]Military personnel in the Philippines celebrating Japanese surrendering[/quote]
[img_thumb]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Missouri-flyover.jpg[/img_thumb]
[quote]Dozens of naval aircraft fly in formation over the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay[/quote]
[img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/sGm7Jge.jpg[/img_thumb]
[quote]Japanese representatives departing the USS Missouri after signing the instrument of surrender.[/quote]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/7KX2R.jpg[/img]
[quote]Numerous spectators including war correspondents and personnel from other militaries filled the decks of the USS Missouri to witness the surrender[/quote]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/kABjRnq.jpg[/img]
[quote]The American flag, first to fly over Tokyo since the Japanese surrender, is raised over the Nippon News building in downtown Tokyo on September 5, 1945 by Lt. Bud Stapleton of Syracuse, N.Y. [/quote]
[img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/Y0MBqBn.jpg[/img_thumb]
[quote]"Japanese Navy personnel glumly listening to their commanders explain the situation following the surrender of Kurihara Naval base to American troops", Onomichi, Honshu, Japan, by Carl Mydans, 1945 [/quote]
[img]http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/10d1da313a02254f_large[/img]
[quote]US Marines standing atop a pile of officer swords that were surrendered to them at the end of the war[/quote]
You gotta wonder where those swords are now.
[QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;48413131]You gotta wonder where those swords are now.[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/zbvIdkJ.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;48413131]You gotta wonder where those swords are now.[/QUOTE]
The swords were supposed to be returned eventually, but many were unofficially taken by soldiers as trophies or keepsakes (bit of a culture gap - weapons weren't really considered heirlooms in Western culture, the way they were in Japan).
One of them ended up in the hands of my high-school history teacher. He claimed it belonged to [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shir%C5%8D_Ishii]this motherfucker[/url], but I'm not entirely sure he wasn't making that up to scare the shit out of us. He did that a lot - played the Imperial March during exams, had a wrought-iron "Arbeiten macht Frei" sign over the door, used an Aztec skull goblet as a pencil holder.
He also had enough real stuff that he might *not* have been making it up. An Imperial Russian battle flag, still with bullet holes from the revolution; a captured Nazi flag, complete with photographs of the soldiers who captured it using it as a barber's apron; display cases full of Civil War bullets or Iroquois arrowheads he'd found himself.
Those are all pretty damn cool, but
[QUOTE=gman003-main;48413185]a wrought-iron "Arbeiten macht Frei" sign over the door[/QUOTE]
what the fuck
[QUOTE=godfatherk;48409703]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/mI2CubV.jpg[/t]
[/QUOTE]
The Calgary Flames seems like an odd choice for propaganda, but alright Boris I guess you know what you're doing.
[QUOTE=godfatherk;48404736]*inflatey lung*[/QUOTE]
Ew that's disgusting, I don't want these in me anymore.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;48413185]The swords were supposed to be returned eventually, but many were unofficially taken by soldiers as trophies or keepsakes (bit of a culture gap - weapons weren't really considered heirlooms in Western culture, the way they were in Japan).
One of them ended up in the hands of my high-school history teacher. He claimed it belonged to [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shir%C5%8D_Ishii]this motherfucker[/url], but I'm not entirely sure he wasn't making that up to scare the shit out of us. He did that a lot - played the Imperial March during exams, had a wrought-iron "Arbeiten macht Frei" sign over the door, used an Aztec skull goblet as a pencil holder.
He also had enough real stuff that he might *not* have been making it up. An Imperial Russian battle flag, still with bullet holes from the revolution; a captured Nazi flag, complete with photographs of the soldiers who captured it using it as a barber's apron; display cases full of Civil War bullets or Iroquois arrowheads he'd found himself.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like a good History teacher. The best Teachers are the ones that are so passionate about their subject that it shows. I had a College history professor that lived with Amish people for a weekend and brought in a scythe they gave him. He also went to the local Klan camp to write a story on them. He told us he didn't follow up because they threatened him if he didn't write a good story. He had other things but he never brought it to lecture, because bringing weapons to campus is generally frowned upon.
the longer you study history the less you look up to wacky high school enthusiasts who brought toys to class and the more you begin to look up to your austere torturers
[QUOTE=godfatherk;48409077][t]http://i.imgur.com/M61mneH.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Damn, I know the Soviet Union and China weren't friends and they had a border conflict in 1967 but I didn't know they disliked eachother to this point
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[QUOTE=seba079;48413953]Those are all pretty damn cool, but
what the fuck[/QUOTE]
Having a 'Work makes you free' sign in a school makes sense obviously
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;48411369]It's strange to think that selfies and phone videos will be the future of wartime photography. If there is ever another global conflict, the most famous pictures probably won't be taken by professional photographers, but by amateurs in the right place at the right time with the right device in their pocket.[/QUOTE]
I think it means greater exposure to crazy bullshit and I think that's great.
[IMG]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/11/16/article-2508470-000157A000000258-467_634x427.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE]A member of the Italian red cross carries an Albanian girl, fleeing the country's [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_Rebellion_of_1997"]rebellion[/URL] in 1997[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=seba079;48413953]Those are all pretty damn cool, but
what the fuck[/QUOTE]
Yeah, he got in a bit of trouble for that one. Same with the Nazi flag, although it may have had something to do with hanging it next to the American flag. I think they made him take both down eventually.
Something he somehow [I]didn't[/I] get in trouble for:
During junior year, he set a photo album on a table out in the hallway after finishing the short lecture. He announced that we "could work on whatever classwork we needed to, but that there was an album of historical photos that showed the less sanitized side of history. Actually quite disturbing stuff. Now, I'm not allowed to show these to you, so I'm not showing them to you. But if you were to happen to go outside, and happened to look at it, well, I'm not going to stop you."
I went out to look, of course. It was basically what you'd expect - mostly WW2 stuff, lots of dead people and such. I didn't spend too long with it - it wasn't really that educational without context, and once I got the point that "holy fuck war fucking sucks", there wasn't much more to be gained.
Plus there was a line forming.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/UuX27q8.jpg[/t]
A Yugoslav partisan created this in 1945 when the Soviet Union was advancing on Berlin, and the German regime was basically fucked.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/tyEEsHx.jpg[/t]
This is a North Korean propaganda piece that is named "All the people of the world praising Kim Il Sung."
Delta flight 1889, an Airbus 320, ate shit after having dealt with some hail whilst flying.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/5nhVtTH.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/eNr4fcC.jpg[/IMG]
[vid]http://webm.host/a4ccf/vid.webm[/vid]
found this in my webm folder
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