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PIGFOOF t1_j76pp28 wrote

Reply to Weekly History Questions Thread. by AutoModerator

Countless books talk about Stalin's preparation for war by having Generals Zhukov and Pavlov battle each other in a war game in early 1941, but fail to show how this game was conducted. Was it on a board, like chess? Was it on a large map with pins? How was it conducted?

Edit: it was General Pavlov not Meretskov (I think).

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xfjqvyks t1_j76gphw wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Caribbean breadfruit traced back to Capt. Bligh's 1791-93 journey by Culturedecanted

My favourite part is that the reason the crew was pissed in the 1st place, is because they were being taken away from the beautiful Tahitian locals, who were much less sexually conservative, and would have sex in exchange for iron. To the point that ships were said to become structurally unstable because crew members were digging nails and fixings out of the ships frame to have iron to barter with. Sailing away from this rum soaked, beauty filled paradise to go and toil in squalid conditions and eat hardtack, turned the whole crew of the Bounty into a giant powder keg lol

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