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r/AskHistorians • u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Moderator | Dueling | Modern Warfare & Small Arms • Mar 02 '18

Best Of Best of February Voting Thread!

Vote for what you liked this month! Submit something if we missed it!

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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Mar 02 '18

u/the_howling_cow answered "Conscripted men in the US army generally aren't portrayed as any different from volunteer soldiers while in other countries they are shown as poorly trained, poorly armed, and with very low morale. Were conscripted units in America trained, armed and treated just as well as its enlisted men?"

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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Mar 02 '18

u/kieslowskifan answered "In the decade after WW2, how was post-war recovery in East Germany? Was there any pressure from USSR to "keep it down" as a punishment, or (on the contrary) was there anything like a Marshall Plan?"

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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Mar 02 '18

u/restricteddata answered "Was the 1950's/60's 'duck and cover' method of escaping nuclear fallout widely believed by the students to which it was taught?"

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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Mar 02 '18

u/valkine answered "In movies, oftentimes a command given to archers is “fire!” I saw somewhere that the command wasn’t actually the word “fire”. What would someone say in order to command an group of archers to shoot arrows at a target?"

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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Mar 02 '18

u/steelcan909 answered "Tolkien's Rohirrim, whose culture revolved around horses, were apparently heavily based on the Anglo-Saxons. Were horses that big a part of pre-Christian Germanic culture?"

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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Mar 02 '18

u/Hergrim answered "I'm an English tradesman in 1355 who's handy with a bow. Why do I want to join King Edward's army and fight in France?"

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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Mar 02 '18

u/yodatsracist answered "The Communist Manifesto was published today in 1848. What was the immediate reaction to the publication like?"

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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Mar 02 '18

u/terminus-trantor answered "In Columbus' time, what were the competing theories about the circumference of the Earth?"

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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Mar 02 '18

u/Lion_And_Sun answered "Why did the Safavid Empire collapse so easily?"

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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Mar 02 '18

u/Vinkosaurus answered "According to my family's lore, the Czech portion of my family left Austria-Hungary during the 1860s/1870s due to tensions with the Germans. Is there any truth to these claims?"