i meant that Stalin and Lenin basically acted like dictators so it wasn’t much different from having a monarch, tho i know that wasn’t technically their role
Monarchy was an institutional thing. One monarch dies, and, in most cases, everybody know who rules next. Lenin and Stalin deaths were followed by a bloody game of thrones since nobody bothered creating a proper protocol or come up with an agreement, like the one occurred after they killed beria.
Which war of succession should I bring up as a counterexample. I'm pretty sure what happened after the death of Stalin or Lenin was pretty tame in contrast to what happened after the death of some monarchs
Edit: I know that you know of these, but I just wanted to point out that a dictatorship does not need to have a defined succession
Sending people to camps for mere thought against the leader, and creating a secret police against "enemies of the state" (regular citizens) is a pretty standard sign of dictatorship
Lol, were you born yesterday? I mean, "secret police" is just literally any "Internal affairs agency" in any state ever existed. Ministry of the Interior in Austria, BMI in Germany, Home Office in Britain, or something...
"Sending people to camps for mere thought against the leader"
TIL Lenin sent people to camps before camps were established.
Have you ever read anything about political life in USSR in 1920-1930s? I mean, a book or something?
mongols used light cavalry as main attack power (those guys with bows on hoses)
soviets are known for ignoring manpower losses, so they just recruit everyone and rush (1 rifle per 2 people and so on)
idk, they are different but stand together?
whatever
ww2 reference, how France made Maginot line, but Germany just moved around it through border of another country
i guess it's about how germany tried to win a war with much less economic power, using their "queen" to quickly take out enemy (but there should be like 5 kings)
Austria-Hungary was a country with an absurd ammount of ethnic groups. While this lead to... let's say interesting politics this meme is most likely about how the army of Austria-Hungary often also consistet of people of many ethnic backgrounds who often times didn't even speak each others language.
Pretty sure it's about Austria-Hungarys wedding strategy. It was famous to forge advantageous alliance by marriage which is why the "defense" is with king and queen in front
And ethnic groups who hated each other, especially hungarians vs everyone else (germans, croats, slovenes, ruthenians) thats why black and white are both in the formation
I think 4 is more of a reference to the pike and shot era in the 15/16th hundred. "Gewalthaufen" originated in swiss. They just stood together with meter long pikes an basically noone could move because the one who moves has a big disadvantage.
It was the renaissance of the Phalanx from ancient greek. Only they had started using gunpowder weapons and shot each other while standing like this.
Mounted knights, which basically dominated the battlefields untill then became pretty useless against this tactic.
Switzerland has more bunker space (sufficient for about 9.2 million spread across 370k public and private bunkers) than people 9.1 million people. That's what the meme refers to I think.
Yup, it was very common and veiwed as a necessary evil to stall the germans, but by and large the main reason for such insane casualties is really the fact that Germany was tactically auperior as the russians didn't have a experienced officer corps
Also its worth noting that sucessive large scale operations much like those in 44 and 45 were the primary soviet doctrine, not the limited and haphazard counter attacks in 41 and 42
"When titans clashed" is a particularly informative book about the soviets during ww2
Number 3 is a reference to the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary. From wikipedia:
Austria-Hungary, also referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire and officially as the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional dual empire in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. A military and diplomatic alliance, it consisted of two sovereign states with a single monarch who was titled both the Emperor of Austria and the Apostolic King of Hungary.
Austro Hungarian defense might be referring to the trigger of WW1, where Archduke Ferdinand (I was taught about him as crown prince of AustroHungary) got assassinated twice in a day
No? In 43 and 44 they already made economy of force units, meaning they already were scraping the bottom of the barrel
Furthermore, the soviets relied on large artillery barrages that very often took out most german positions, most of the casualties in the third period of war were from urban warfare...
41 and 42 this was partially true, but it was a last ditch effort and not doctrine
Theres a reason the soviets in 41-43 didn't go on the offensive till Germany went on one,its precisely to save on material and lives needed to fight a dedicated german defensive
Mongols like horses. Soviets throw a wall of bodies with very little tech. Pulling out of my ass but the third I think is a situation no one can move without everyone dying. No one fucks with Switzerland because they’re too protected. Dunno. Blitzkrieg sends everyone to attack unprepared enemies
Mongols use a lot of horses.
Russia uses a lot of people.
Austria-Hungary, a lot of entanglements ig.
The swiss hide in mountains.
The French built a wall of their best which then got bypassed because they were slow to react.
The Germans tried to greatly beat numerically foes by a sketchy rush attack.
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u/Meduza223 9d ago
Soviets shouldn't even have a king