Liam, Noah was not Jewish.  I need to talk to the shlimazl rabbi that taught you.

The reason for the pale of settlement was that they hated Jews, but after Partitions of Poland ended up with a Jewish population, so they decided to contain them to the former territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Russian nobility also hated Ukrainians and Belarusians (broken Slavs refusing to be Russian), Chechens and Armenians (not even Slavs) and Russian peasants.  Not a loving bunch.

That entire war was a trainwreck....for Russia. Two sunken fleets, army units were smashed at Port Arthur.

Cossacks (at least in the Western portion of Imperial Russia) were just escaped Russian or Ukrainian peasants who picked up Turkic horse-riding skills and were granted their own villages by the government.....as long as they were willing to send men to the Army as specialized dragoons.

He's utterly shocked with how sparse things are, how it wasn't Shambala, etc.

Japan had sold reams of old Arisaka Type 38 to the Imperial Russian Army because so many Mosin-Nagant rifles were wrecked. That's why Winchester and Westinghouse built Mosin-Nagant rifles for the Czarist and Provisional governments in 1916-1918, a pair of contracts that the US government had to take up to keep both firms from collapsing. This is why we have surplus .30-06 Bannerman Mosins out there; some of the rifles were bought by the US gov't., the rest paid for by the US gov't. because they weren't shipping them to Bolshevik Russia (who wasn't going to pay for them), and the Bannerman military surplus company converted them to .30-06 and "sporterized" them in the mid-1920s.

"He's in Korea and he can't leave." Sounds like Hawkeye on "MASH" the sitcom (not "M*A*S*H" the movie).

All the aristocrats of the Russian Empire from 1886 to 1918 were anti-Semites. The Tzar and Tzarina were anti-Semites. Even the Cossacks who joined the Red Army were anti-Semites, though Trotsky's skill as a commander changed their minds.

The conclusion of the Conrad Von Hotzendorf story 

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Episode 153 - Conrad Von Hotzendorf Part 2: Mt Doom

The US keeps feeding soldiers into the death forest for no reason. Eventually win. 

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Episode 156 - Battle of Hurtgen Forest Part 2: Task Force Dick Ripple

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Sources for both episodes:

Titley, B. (1997). Dark Age: the political odyssey of Emperor Bokassa

O'Toole, T. (1982). "Made in France: the Second Central African Republic"

Kalck, P. (1971). Central African Republic: a failure in de-colonisation

Episode 167: The Napoleon Nerd Who Took Over a Country and Crowned Himself Emperor Part 1

Baron Roman Von Ungern-Sternberg is one of the most insane men to ever live. 

*clarification: Estonians aren't slavic people. However, Russian and Baltic German nobility saw them as slavs due to their peasant status. No, this makes no sense.

Sources for all related shows:

The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer 

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/02/ungern-sternberg-buddhist-isis/459327/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNUq7IUU300

Willard Sunderland (2014) The Baron’s Cloak, A History of the Russian Empire in War and Revolution


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Episode 177 - The Bloody White Baron Part 1: Wolf Rehab

Germany gets involved and throws its entire airborne corps into a woodchipper. 

*correction, England has won a World Cup.  In 1966.

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Episode 186 - The Greco-Italian War Part 2: The Battle of Crete

Part 3/4

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Episode 200 - The Polar Bear Expedition Part 3: Go Chop Down the Poop Tree

Joe, Francis, and Shocks talk about the weirdest military unit of all time.

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https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/potsdam-giants.html?safari=1

https://weaponsandwarfare.com/2021/07/28/potsdam-giants-by-name/

Darwin, Charles (1871). The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. John Murray. p. 112.

https://knoji.com/article/the-potsdam-guards-prussias-giant-soldiers/

https://random-times.com/2018/07/14/king-frederick-william-i-of-prussia-and-his-obsession/

Episode 204 - The Potsdam Giants

CW: Everything 

Part 2/3

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Iris Chang. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII

Timothy Brook. Documents on the Rape of Nanjing

David Askew. The International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone: An introduction. Sino-Japanese Studies Vol. 14

Joseph Chapel. Denying Genocide: The Evolution of the Denial of the Holocaust and the Nanking Massacre.

Robert P Gray (translation into english. Originally by the Nanjing University Department of History Professors Gao Xingzu, Wu Shimin, Hu Yungong, and Cha Ruizhen) Japanese Imperialism and the Massacre in Nanjing museums.cnd.org/njmassacre/njm-tran/

Herbert Bix. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Episode 206 - Nanking Part 2

The conclusion to the nanking series 

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Iris Chang. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII

Timothy Brook. Documents on the Rape of Nanjing

David Askew. The International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone: An introduction. Sino-Japanese Studies Vol. 14

Joseph Chapel. Denying Genocide: The Evolution of the Denial of the Holocaust and the Nanking Massacre.

Robert P Gray (translation into english. Originally by the Nanjing University Department of History Professors Gao Xingzu, Wu Shimin, Hu Yungong, and Cha Ruizhen) Japanese Imperialism and the Massacre in Nanjing museums.cnd.org/njmassacre/njm-tran/

Herbert Bix. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Episode 207 - Nanking Part 3

The founder of Scientology had a very stupid naval career 

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Russel Miller. Bare-Faced Messiah

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Cowen/warhero/intro.htm

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/primary-sources-l-ron-hubbard-leaves-the-navy

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/11/30/l-ron-hubbard/?safari=1

Episode 209 - The Hilarious Military Career of L Ron Hubbard

Folks, it's bad.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/09/19/garfield-assassination-white-house-doctors-lied/
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/health/25garf.html
https://medium.com/@simoncarryer/damn-near-killed-him-30042c796e29
https://nypost.com/2016/09/22/the-inept-doctor-who-killed-president-garfield/

Episode 126 - The Horrible Death of President James Garfield

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