What made Russia so adversarial towards the West? They seemed to be friendly with other Europeans up to WWI. I know gommies were a mistake, but Putin still decided to antagonize the west even after they went away.

Not that I dislike Putin, wimpy western leaders could learn a few things from him. I just don't understand what happened to make Russia the """bad guy""" again, even though they aren't the world power they were during the USSR days.

Bonus question: would the world would be a better place if someone time traveled and killed Marx before he wrote his thesis, or was a US-Russia conflict inevitable once Russia industrialized and became a world power?

Is there a single place on earth with more culture, history, art, aesthetic and overall refinement per square meter than Italy?

Well?

>avoid England for 40 years after being defeated near Jarrow
>avoid France after battle of Leuven
>muh varangian guard
>consisted of Saxons later on
>also got defeated
>muh Normans
>50% french admixture, no remains of norse culture by the time they conquered England

vikings are a meme

Which 20th century dictator is the most fascinating to you?

hello, is there someone who would know a good book that makes a good anthropological cross-analysis of the mythologies of various cultures ? ( From the Norse to the Egyptian )

How well do you know early Christianity /his/? I just finished my finals for this semester and here are two of the questions I had for a 300 level final.

1. The three major heresies of the third and fourth centuries CE concerned the nature of Christ and the three persons of the Trinity. Explain fully the backgrounds of the following movements and how the Church coped with these challenges:
a. Monarchianism (all variants)
b. Arianism
c. Apollonarianism

2. In the year 580 CE the monk and scholar Cassiodorus composed his final volume, a book on spelling, for his monastic charges. How has the Christian world of Cassiodorus and Pope Gregory I changed since the time of Augustine? Explain fully with specific examples.


Lets see what you got /his/.

I need to build a map collection, faggotboys. Help me.

anyone know anything about the Sellersville radium plants from the early 1900's? otherwise known as the Radium Company of America? Sellersville is in southeast Pennsylvania. Trying to learn more about it. It's supposedly a big cover-up in this tiny town near me. Couldn't think of where else to post this.

ITT: we post stupid memes that dumb westerners believe

"Russians are much better off after the USSR fell"

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Poll-Most-Russians-Prefer-Return-of-Soviet-Union-and-Socialism-20160420-0051.html

>there are AMERICANS who don't like FDR
Explain this to me please.
I mean, unless you were autistic Naziboo, why the fuck would you hate him?
He made America superpower, he won WW2, he defeated major economic crisis. The life in 50's, often idolized here, was practically made by Roosevelt.