Historical confession

CONFESS

I used to think the Vietnam War and the Pacific Front in WW2 were part of the same war (WW2).

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I used to think the minoans were greeks.

they were though. wwii never ended in vietnam. it went straight from japanese to french to americans

I used to think that Spain was a Mestizo colony in Europe.

I once thought that the soviets beat germany all on their own (i was an edgy socialist agnositc like 2 years ago, but have now seen that I was a retard 2 years back)

i once thought the holocaust happened

I’ve fantasized about making Anne Frank pregnant since I was 11 years old.

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>Russia was/is a powerful country
>Mexico is nothing but sparsely populated desert, like texas but with fewer people
>Napoleon = French Hitler
>Germany was the good guys in WW1, they just got upset after losing the war and that made them bad
>Italy is nothing but ruins of old Roman cities, nobody lives there anymore (except the Pope)
>The Holy Roman Empire was simply the new name given to the Roman empire after they converted to Christianity
>The middle-east has no cars or technology, they all ride camels and there is no electricity allowed
>Japan did nothing wrong in WW2, they just joined the wrong team by mistake

I thought every single human being fought in world war 1 and 2

I once thought the holocaust wasn't a hoax

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>smoloko.com

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d jewz stole our nuklear secrets

it was the WORLD war so that would make sense to a kid

I just found out Jimmy Carter is still alive.

I used to think america were the good guys. :^(

When I was a kid, I thought that winning a war would mean killing all of the country population.

Also, I used to think that the cold war was called the cold war because it was fought during winter/northern climate.

I used to think that Hitler was an immoral man.

>Smoloko

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I used to believe the entire civil rights narrative. The schizophrenic belief that they were peaceful and dindu nuffin but also violently rioted because they were oppressed.

I thought Greek people still worshiped Zeus and Greek Orthodox Church worshiped Greek gods

That's what I thought as a kid

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this

I used to think that WW2 had a winner and the 2010s were not a verbatim continuation of 1950s culture

You are nearing 30, its getting a bit wierd

I used to think g*rmans were humans.

I thought the Zimmerman note was written during WW2
[spoiler]And tried to correct someone on Veeky Forums about this[/spoiler]

>Russia was/is a powerful country
Yes, and?

It's not. Russia's power projection is pitiful.

Then you're either misinformed or deluded

Russia has a smaller navy than France. FRANCE.

So it's misinformed and possibly stupid then

>I thought that winning a war would mean killing all of the country population.
...don't tease me.

I used to think America lost the Vietnam War.
I also used to think Nixon started that war.

The US did lose the war.
>But we weren't there when South Vietnam finally fell!
>So what if the country became communist, w-w-we prevented the rest of Asia becoming communist!

I used to think that the US did nothing wrong in the Cold War and that communist regimes always were the bloodiest and most repressive ones.

>Mexico is nothing but sparsely populated desert, like texas but with fewer people
Goddamn americans and their Speedy Gonzales show stereotypes

Except for Laos and Cambodia.

this. same thing in Korea

Oh yeah , remember the American equivalents of the cultural revolution and the killing fields? Good times

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>tfw was always well educated and very bookish as a child
I was reading Dante in like the 6th grade. Sorry faggots, I don't deal with normies who "socialized" as kids.

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No, there were 5 years of peace before Kim Il Sung invaded the south.

Americans supported many repressive regimes in Latin America, Iran and east Asia.

I used to mix up Bush and Adolf Hitler.

Yes, none of which even came close to the lowest crimes the Marxist Leninist committed. The commies all had it coming , even most modern day far leftists try to distance themselves from orthodox Marxism as much as possible.

I'm not going to say that the Chilean coup in 1973, the CIA support of the Shah in Iran, and the bombimg of Cambodia were good things but I can somewhat sympathize with the reasons for them just looking at what these types of people did when they were in power.

Ofcourse Pol Pot was a retard but you have to take into effect that both Russia and China weren't industrialized and did so at an enourmous pace thanks to those plans. The US and Russia already weren't matched in the first place because the US had a 100 year headstart while Russia was still living in feudalism and for China it was even worse.

i thought Iceland was majority inuit like Greenland because of björk until I was like 19

>both Russia and China weren't industrialize
>Therefore mass incarceration , genocide, and executions were totally justified
On what planet? This isnt even talking about the war crimes committed by the Northern Vietnamese , violence in multiple different African Nations, FARC, and the Sandanistas.

Yeah no, the liberal side of the Cold War was far better in terms of human rights violations than the far left.

You say Russia is weak?
They have T-I-G-E-R-S

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>Germany was the good guys in WW1, they just got upset after losing the war and that made them bad
Am I reading that right? You thought they lost the Franco Prussian war and we're just mad in WW2? Or were you thinking that the treaty of versailles lead to a militant and fascist incarnation of Pan-Germanism?

>talking about the war crimes committed by the Northern Vietnamese
The Americans did equally if not worse things all across Vietnam.

The far left certainly weren't saints and their crimes against humanity aren't justified in any way but neither were the Americans and they were as willing to commit war crimes in order to stop communism.

>The Americans did equally if not worse things all across Vietnam.
Absolutely not, the US did not encourage the execution of civilians. They kidnapped and murdered tens of thousands of civilians. Vietcong and the Northern Vietnamese in general far outweighed what the Americans did. Keep in mind that this is their version of the My Lai Massacre
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_at_Huế

>navy
The fuck is this the 18th century? The only naval units that matter are nuclear submarines and Russia has more of them than everyone else combined.

What do you mean about that second part?

>literally the largest arsenal of nuclear ICBMs in the world

The Vietcong and the North didn't fireborn the native population into oblivion or used chemicals to deforest regions which only had some aftereffects. Not that the Vietcong was any better, but the US didn't nuffin

S-P-A-C-E
T-I-G-E-R-S

>The Vietcong and the North didn't fireborn the native population into oblivion
No they just intentionally shot /imprisoned them meanwhile the US at least tried to target the Viet Cong only and actually punished soldiers who stepped out of line?

I'm guessing you've been watching too many movies on the subject. The US did not firebomb civilians in Vietnam - that was in WW2 in Tokyo. The biggest crimes the Americans did in Vietnam was illegally bomb Cambodia helping leading the rise of Khmer Rouge , agent orange, and leaving behind hunreds of thousands of active explosives just like the Vietcong did

Neither side was pretty, but the Northern Vietnamese were very deliberate in targeting civilians whereas the US was just more or less negligent

>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rolling_Thunder

The US ofcourse were a proffesional army so they would punish soldiers who step out of the line, in comparison the Vietcong was a militia. And I agree, the US wasn't targeting civilians but often civilians would come into the crossfire.

NVA were not a militia and they also committed war crimes against civilians. Rolling Thunder did not intentionally target civilians either.

No matter what way Vietnam goes, the liberal and capitalist democracies we're nowhere near as violent as their rivals in the cold war.

I thought that when Americans occupied Iraq in 2003 it meant that they annexed it, and that Iraq is part of the USA now. Afghanistan too.

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