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[Rome's rightful successor]

apparently, Stalin kept this letter in his desk for the rest of his life.

Stalin kept a lot of his juicer letters for memory sake.

Here's his daughter with Beria on September 25, 1931.

 

[Angry Canadian]

Spoiler: A few photos of Hitler

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Spoiler: A few photos of Hitler

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Wholesome keanu reeves big chungus 100

 

[AnOminous]

Chilean military general Augusto Pinochet in some sunglasses, 1973.

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Something you've gotta give dictators is they can sure rock the shades.

Spoiler: more dictators rocking the shades

And then. . .umm. . .well. . .

Even Belgium had left the Allies to be "neutral" and forbid french soldiers from helping defend their borders on good ground. The two powers were alone and France was not in particularly good shape. Britain was good shape for a post-depression country and it was Chamberlain's government that oversaw that.

It serves those miserable fat Belgian bastards right the Germans could give two shits about their "neutrality" and treated them as a walkover to get into France. Idiots.

Here's his daughter with Beria on September 25, 1931.

Probably the only female child who was ever safe in that pervert's presence. And even so you can tell she has some inkling of whose lap she's sitting on. Horrifying motherfucker. At least he died screaming like a bitch.

 

[Slap47]

“Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that Bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.”

-Dwight D Eisenhower, 1944

The failure letter.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Probably the only female child who was ever safe in that pervert's presence. And even so you can tell she has some inkling of whose lap she's sitting on. Horrifying motherfucker. At least he died screaming like a bitch.

and even then it was only garented because of the guidance of her father.

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“Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that Bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.”

-Dwight D Eisenhower, 1945

The failure letter.

Eisenhower seemed to be a much more of a self respecting gentleman and leader then many of the miliarist and politicians of his time and especially today.

 

[TowinKarz]

Seattle, 1971 - a joke sign by the airport makes light of the city's economic tailspin.

The decision to withdraw Federal Government funding for Boeing's 2707 aircraft: a commercial supersonic transport meant to rival the Concorde, had triggered massive layoffs that year. 60,000 Boeing employees were now out of work and many were relocating elsewhere to find jobs.

The company had banked heavily on being the global leader in SST production by the mid-70's and had spent a fortune in developing an ambitious prototype with a higher mach speed, variable geometry (swing) wings, and more seating. But when supersonic commercial aircraft encountered unexpected public backlash over noise and pollution concerns, killing the SST market, Boeing's decision to go all-in on what seemed like the future instead became the most costly misstep in it's history.

Only orders for the 747 kept them from folding completely.

Note: Seattle's basketball team picked up the name "Supersonics" from the craze around SSTs, as that was all the rage at the time.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Not a pic but a cool painting I've found of the Titanic.

 

[Carnavoyeur]

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Not a pic but a cool painting I've found of the Titanic.

Titanic has been a lifelong obsession for me. Everything about it, from the ship itself, the sinking, the rescue effort, the shitshow afterwards to the conspiracy theories is completely fascinating to me. The PC game Titanic: Adventure Out of Time (WEAH TO?) remains one of the most tense and unsettling gaming experiences for me. I think it came out around the time of the movie, and then not long after that there was a Titanic exhibition my parents took me to on a ship docked downtown--it might have been on the USS Midway, but I can't remember and a quick search doesn't turn up anything from the 90s except for stuff about the movie--that totally sealed my obsession. They gave out "boarding passes" with passenger names and information, and at the end of the exhibition there was a list of the people who survived, so you could see if "you" survived or didn't. I had gotten Violet Jessop, who survived the sinking of Titanic as well as HMHS Brittanic and RMS Olympic.


Titanic at night.

 

[Registration]

Some dude leaves with his home in the back of a truck before the Itaipu Dam was built and the area was underwater.

Zeppelin Hindenburg in Rio de Janeiro, 1936

 

[SneedEyeMitch]

@Jamila
You should visit Belfast sometime, if you like the Titanic.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Herge with Tintin and Snowy

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Tove Jansson with her Moomin Characters

 

[GenociderSyo]

The moments after 3 Aermacchi MB-339 fighter jets from the Italian Air Force collided into each other during the Ramstein air show at the Ramstein Air Base in Ramstein-Miesenbach West Germany (now Germany), Lt. Col. Ivo Nutarelli, Lt. Col. Mario Naldini, and Cpt. Giorgio Alessio were all killed during the collision, 70 people were killed and 500 were injured when one of the jets crashed into the ground on August 28, 1988.

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The second photo doesn't even look real but having seen documentaries on it i know it is.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Charles Schulz drawing Charlie Brown

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Yuri Gagarin and his Matra Djet​

Protesters burn a flag outside the Russian government building in Moscow, March 31, 1999. Hundreds of Muscovites protested further air strikes against Yugoslavia by marching through the city's streets and singing hymns for their "Slav brothers" in Serbia​

German prisoner of war returning to his home town of Frankfurt to discover his house bombed and his family no longer there - 1946​

West German school children pause to talk with two East German border guards beside an opening in the Berlin Wall during the collapse of communism in East Germany, November 1989.​

Tsarists and Communists working together in the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis​

Romanian anticommunist fighter (December 1989)​

Russian Duma, 1990. Member of Parliament, V. A. Marychev, discusses legal regulations.​

 

[Pocket Dragoon]

Balloofest '86

Balloonfest '86 was a 1986 event in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, in which the local chapter of United Way set a world record by releasing almost one-and-a-half million balloons.[2] The event was intended to be a harmless fundraising publicity stunt, but the balloons drifted back over the city, Lake Erie, and landed in the surrounding area, causing problems for traffic and a nearby airport. The event also interfered with a United States Coast Guard search for two boaters who were later found drowned.[1] In consequence, the organizers and the city faced lawsuits seeking millions of dollars in damages,[1] and cost overruns put the event at a net loss.[3]

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Kim Jong Un a couple of years ago compare to how he is now

Thumbs up

I think he has lost some weight, good for him.

 

[Pocket Dragoon]

@Jamila

Gargling with any and all antiseptics was a big one. People still held onto a sort of miasma theory back then and you see a lot of stories of people wearing sachets of herbs.

While it obvs doesn't work for flu (although it still feels good with a chronic cough), gargling with peroxide & salt water has kept everyone in my family from ever needing antibiotics for strep throat.

Another old timey one that works for mouth/gum infections & toothaches is a boiled toothbrush dipped in pure pine oil (not fucking pine sol). Just don't swallow any; pine-oil/turpentine (not fucking paint remover either) is used in livestock for gut worms, but highly dilute; it's rough on the kidneys without a lot of water.