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From Kolkata, around 1930. No, they're not painted horses.

Bumping this thread since its a favourite of mine, to inform the forum that Pedro Pascal (yes, that Pedro Pascal) is actually from a Chilean political family, being descended from a 19th century ex-president on his father's side and related to Allende on his mother's. If Allende had stayed in...

god im so washed rn

I think the song is used in W. but for a different ending

The Singapore Model: On Singapore's Little-Known Socialist Success July 17, 2017 by Matt Bruenig Here in America, "socialism" is still a boogieman for whatever the right doesn't like. Last year's Democratic primaries showed this once more, with the promising figure of Ted Milliband's loss -...

Tony Cliff and Ted Grant, 2 major British Trot leaders were born in Mandatory Palestine and South Africa respectively. Perhaps they may have had careers in their home countries. The now ex-president of Portugal Antonio Costa is the son of a popular Goan poet and freedom fighter, Orlando da...

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things id revive for a laugh: mithraism orphism manichaeism alchemy geocentrism (is this even dead) ritual combat saint-simonianism weird secular religions like the cult of reason and religion of humanity

I believe Stalin made a toast to the Conservative Party when meeting Churcnill

Yeah but from what a friend with good knowledge on the period tells me they existed more as an auxiliary to guard SPD/DDP/Zentrum events than a proper paramilitary

The problem is that Reichsbanner wasn't really a proper militia the way the SA or the Red Front were; from what I've read.

As we're all aware, Poland became independent after WW1, following more than 100 years of rule under (mostly) the Russians. Before WW1 began however, there was of course a well-known rebellion in 1905 concurrently with Russia, before which there was the January Uprising in 1863, the Greater...

Presidents of the Federal Republic of India 1925 - 1935: Chittaranjan Das (Indian National Congress) 1935 - 1938: Subhash Chandra Bose (Indian National Congress) 1935 def. Madan Mohan Malaviya (Nationalist faction) and Rajendra Prasad (Gandhian faction) Presidents of the Federal Socialist...