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Railing Kill posted:
Not particularly quietly, at least one very famous actor who played Stalin during the latter's lifetime hammed it up quite convincingly. Naturally, Stalin preferred another actor, one who did not play his role with an accent at all.
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Two of the USSR's Premiers, Stalin and Krustchev, weren't Russian. Stalin was Georgian and Krustchev was Ukrainian. Both were lampooned for their accents in Russia. Presumably they were lampoon very, very quietly. 
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Acoustic coupling modems are hilarious, and yet most of the internet stack really hasn't changed at all since they were around
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Alkydere posted:As someone who plays War Thunder...no, I get enough of this naturally already. Needlessly huge honking gun. The Soviets put a gun with almost identical ballistics into a medium tank in 1943, but with a much smaller breech. And then, an even smaller gun with identical ballistics, just because. bulletsponge13 posted:Maybe it is just the nerd circles I run in, but everyone jumps to the commonality with elements of American design while ignoring the fact that Hugo loving Schmiesser (might have spelled that wrong) had been captured and was working at the arsenal where it was designed and the design has his fingerprints all over it. It was a genius of a bunch of good ideas, hammered into a good design for it's time and purpose- I'm not saying it isn't- but the myths surrounding it are loom pretty large. Schmeisser wasn't allowed to touch anything top secret. Soviet documents from the design bureau complain that he's completely useless and all he does is spread dissent among other German engineers there while whining about wanting more money.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I've never heard this before. From what I have read, he did get his dangle into all sorts of poo poo that he didn't officially touch, including the development of the AK. Not saying your wrong, or that I am absolutely right- the truth is somewhere between, but I always want to see sources that counter to my own knowledge, so if you could drop some links, I would appreciate it. http://topwar.ru/uploads/posts/2014-08/thumbs/1408818912_poslednyayahar.jpg It's in Russian, naturally. It lists the projects he worked on from 1946 to 1951, namely: - box magazine for the PPSh - magazine for the Mosin - draft of an 8 mm submachinegun "Due to Schmeisser's narrow speciality, he is only used in occasional work and nothing he does is secret... Due to a lack of technical education, he cannot perform any work. He contributed nothing of value during his stay. His psychology is capitalist. He has a decaying effect on the other German specialists."
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FreudianSlippers posted:That bear's cousin was Czar of Russia through Queen Victoria(who is the ancestor of all modern European bears) and the two were apparently very hard to tell apart. There is even a picture of them together where the bear is in the czar's regalia and the czar naked and tearing apart a salmon with his teeth. Lies, the ancestor of all modern bears was invented by the nazis
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Getting a little nick on the edge of your blade isn't really critical damage for a sword. You can still cut up dudes just as well with it after.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Tiberius!? Tell me more about these sexperts.
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Alhazred posted:In the battle of Aqaba in 1917 Lawrence of Arabia accidentally shot his own camel in the head while riding into battle. The Soviet cavalry manual contained many useful tips on how not to do this.
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Siivola posted:Do share. You can read the shooting related part of the manual here (in English) http://sovietguns.blogspot.ca/2014/03/shooting-from-horseback.html
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Cyrano4747 wrote a lot about this in the military history threads, but basically if you axed everyone who was in the NSDAP you would have no one left to run the country, so a lot of rather significant transgressions were looked over.
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ThyssenKrupp. Hope you didn't take an elevator recently.
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Sweevo posted:QI isn't a history show, or a science show. Their primary goal is to be entertaining. Their fact-checking is atrocious and they'll blindly repeat urban myths and obviously made-up "facts" if they're funny. Any excuse to deduct points from Alan Davies.
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Less warred in recent past and more wrecked their poo poo on the continent in two weeks, then started landing (very successfully) on islands.
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Shooting yourself to get off the front lines was a relatively common problem in both world wars and was punishable as desertion if it was found out you did it on purpose.
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System Metternich posted:A grocery list written by none other than Michelangelo himself. He doodled some drawings of the stuff he needed next to the written items, probably because his servants were illiterate. Seems like a good idea, except there's no way to tell what's in all those jugs from a drawing.
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Pushkin, a great Russian poet, hid in a closet in his childhood to observe the visit of a poet he admired. He expected the poet to say something profound, but the poet just asked where the bathroom was. Never meet your heroes.
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Osama Dozen-Dongs posted:Successor states usually carry over their previous privileges and responsibilities. Russia eventually paid off a lot (or all?) of its Soviet era debts. Unless they've specifically proclaimed to break it, it should be in force. I highly doubt they'd do anything else than tell Bruges to get hosed and announce they're breaking the agreement, though. It's not like there'd be any consequences. Yeah, Russia explicitly took on all Soviet debts, freeing all other former Soviet republics from them.
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Loxbourne posted:If you ever want to see old American men have a huge internet slapfight, find a model railroading forum or FB community and ask about graffiti. The screaming will be heard for miles around. American scale model forums seem to be populated by people with th thinnest skins and shortest fuses that I've ever interacted with. Specifically the railroad ones also get bent out of shape about bike lanes as well.
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Similarly, Russian 107 mm model 1877 guns were dusted off and used in the defense of Moscow in 1941. Turns out getting slapped with a big ol' HE shell sucks, even if the model isn't very cutting edge.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:That's a tank alignment chart, not an assault gun alignment chart. I think you will find that it is actually a tank destroyer 
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:In Dmitry Loza's memoires, iirc, he talks about having to post guards on the lend-lease Shermans overnight in friendly territory because passing infantry units were keen on looting the leather from the interior to repair their boots. The .50 cal on the early Shermans was installed directly above the only turret hatch, meaning that if you needed to bail out it got in everyone's way. The Soviets removed them as well in battle but liked to keep them installed when driving around, especially in the late stages of the war when rapid offensives quickly outran fighter cover. ChubbyChecker posted:how much did that bolted front armor weaken the shermans' protection The vertical cast bit in the front was significantly weaker than the upper front plate anyway, the bolts holding it on weren't a major detriment compared to that.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Any more good stories of dysfunctional Nazi 'efficiency'? British analysis of captured Panzer IV tanks came to the conclusion that German ball bearing manufacturers had a powerful lobby, since the tank was chock-full of ball bearings in areas where it made no sense to have so many. Since the Germans never mastered assembly line tank manufacturing, all their welding and fitting was done by hand. This meant that there were more often than not gaps between plates when all was finished. The solution was to hammer a shim in and then weld over it again. This was a very time consuming process that resulted in weak welds.
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Kevin DuBrow posted:About serial numbers on German tanks, is serial number analysis still a matter of concern in warfare, and what measures have been taken to counter it? Soviet factories used a different serial number range for every month of production, for instance.
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vyelkin posted:Efficiency is what the Soviets did, where they did the math to figure out that an average tank only lasted twelve hours in combat so they gave their tanks transmissions that broke after thirteen hours. That's not a thing that happened. The Soviet tank industry worked to increase reliability throughout the war. For instance, the lifespan of the T-34's engine doubled between 1941 and 1945. The reliability target was 7000 km or 600 hours of operation between refurbishment, a standard not reached by any tank during the war or even for many years after.
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Phy posted:I read a book the other week that mentioned Heydrich, and that's how I found out that the evil vampire in the cyoa/rpg book I had when I was 10 was named after the head of the gestapo and the architect of the final solution The US also copied the German 75 mm gun muzzle brake for their 76 mm guns, although they shaved a couple of kilos off it and made it easier to produce. The USSR copied the Ferdinand's muzzle brake for the IS-2, but only built something like 150 of them before switching to a domestic design. Some of their stuff was alright, just not the stuff internet nerds obsess over.
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Do you want to post a historically fun fact about this plan to take over Europe?
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