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Your favourite historical country? (lemmy.world)
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My favourite part of modern history is the cold war, my country of choice would be the U.S.S.R

My reasons are simple:

  • They sent the first man into space and sent Sputnik which sent the USA into a space chasing frenzy that made moon discovery possible.

  • Their flag, whilst simple like the PRC, is iconic in both memes but also infamy amongst Eastern European people as a sign of the historical power they wielded over half of Europe. I also just think it's look cool.

  • Some of their structure sort of lives on in the modern era such as the PRC's Politburo basically being a chinese version of the soviet one

  • I quite like a lot of the military hardware they made like the T 72 which is my favourite tank.

  • The soviets are responsible for Tetris!!!

What is your favourite historical country? It can be ancient, medieval, colonial era or cold war era etc.

Have a good day/night!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

The fact that the Paris Commune existed is just fucking awesome. It was just a confluence of luck that is statistically staggering.

The Haudenosaunee confederation was pretty fucking swell from a governance and justice perspective. And it's formation, while not ending war by any means, brought on a really stable period of mostly peace.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

The absolute banger of a National Anthem is why I always played as the U.S.S.R. in video games as a kid.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Free City of Danzig 1920-39

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Abyssinia is pretty cool, as is Zanzibar. 'I'm not gonna cook it but I'll order it from Zanzibar'.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The Zapatists, of course. Or if we go by past ones, the Makhnovshchina movement!

A mass movement to have liberation from authoritarianism AND capitalism? Count me in!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm fond of the Imperial County of Reuss, which was semi-independent in the Holy Roman Empire. The madlads named all their rulers "Heinrich", resulting such personages as Heinrich LXXII ("Heinrich the 72nd").

More recently there's the Saar Protectorate, which the French encouraged to become a fully independent country after WWII. But the inhabitants wanted nothing to do with it and rejoined West Germany.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Bohemia

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Not a historical country, per se, but I love traditional names for places.

Here's a little song about such a thing.