Zudgemud posted:

It sure wasn't the approach taken for the other Baltic countries which were occupied by the Soviet Union after the Molotov Ribbentrop pact. They were occupied and any leadership and intelligentsia etc were shipped off to Siberia, where of course many died because it's Siberia and the Soviet Union gave few shits about anyone sent there. However, the great majority of the population stayed and was repressed locally. A heavy handed occupation with the explicit long term intention to erase the countries as national entities sure, but it was not a kill everyone genocide.

Zudgemud posted:

They sure did, and very often in a very racist manner too, so any group that didn't neatly conform to white/european peasants got shafted extra hard. When they occupied Estonia after Molotov Ribbentrop they sent away 1/5th of all Estonians on trains to Siberia as they were part of "troublesome" social classes, occupations or organisation (soldiers, student leaders, politicians, journalists etc). In total 1/3 of the population was directly affected by repression (deportations, arrests, executions, asset seizures etc). I would still not consider that a kill everyone and deport the rest to Siberia motivation, because their goal was to occupy and forcefully convert the society to a totalitarian soviet state.

Zudgemud posted:

So you agree that when Finland was invaded the Soviet Union tried to kill everyone and failing that, send the rest to the Siberia?

Krankenstyle posted:

And from Finland (Joulupukki; these are definitely modern drawings made to look old but whatever):

Krankenstyle posted:

at least here in denmark, yule lasts until pascha

FreudianSlippers posted:

I saw a really old picture of a bunch of people on a ship about to emigrate from Iceland to Canada. Everyone looking very weathered and stern but all around them where a bunch of vaguely humanoid blurs. Presumably their kids.




Either that or ghosts fairies.


Possibly both because if horror films have taught me anything it's that 80% of ghosts are (were?) children.

Krankenstyle posted:

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Gonna guess all but maybe the first are from the Ottoman Empire.

Big Dick Cheney posted:

What are those tubes on his chest for? They look like cigar tubes but that's a lot of cigars.

Nessus posted:

Post some and you may win more renown than you know

Phlegmish posted:

lol

Mostly unrelated, but sometimes I think about the Norse Greenlandic settlers, and what it must have been like to be the last one of them alive.

Fish of hemp posted:

I feel a bit sorry for the man who lost his hat.

quote:

...so hideous in her ugliness that ... she would stand out from the rest of the company as a Monster, in the vilest cabaret in France, or the lowest gin-shop in England.

Buttchocks posted:

I really like this, especially John the Baptist getting skeeved out, but why is there a trebuchet in the background? I don't remember one of those in the gospels.

SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:

I think it went beyond suggesting Christ’s Jewishness, just the very idea of depicting kid Jesus and his family as regular people was appalling. I’m a little taken aback at Dickens’s criticism.