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Viriato, what do you think about the possible affects on race relations in southern Africa? As far as I understand, what bothered the Rhodesians and made them wary of majority rule was the violent reprisals on Europeans in the Congo. If a Congolese leader, even a break-away one, could assure...

KATANGA I was going to start another thread for this, but this seems as good a place as any. I think a more interesting question would be the repercussions of Tshombe's Katanga being allowed to exist, especially south of the border. While Lumumba was a weak ideologue, Tshombe was all about...

Where's the updates, braaah?

What better way to come back from a long break from the forums to a bloody Kummeli reference of all things.

good stuff, following

Suuloinen=Mouth parasite

Desperate bump

I have to say I'm enjoying the new posts immensely. I do have just a few linguistic gripes to improve the text though: 1. The word for army is armeija. Armeijan is the possessive form of it. 2. Use of the word paska. Although it is a swear-word and used as such, it's not used quite like it...

Sooo, updates when?

- The Last Stand of Field Kitchen xxx I see someone's been reading about the Sausage War. Can't wait for the posts proper to start

I'm back and after some exhaustive and exhausting googling, I believe I've found what I'm talking about. It's an American McCormick TD-14 In addition to hauling artillery, they were used for pulling loads and sometimes helped in felling trees. Also, CanKiwi, go ahead and use the poster...

I'm afraid that's not it, it had a distinctly more tractor-like appearance, and as far as I recall, it was an unarmed, unarmoured civilian vehicle. I'll look for some info myself and post anything I find here.

On tractors I remember seeing a lot of pictures and film footage of tank-tracked utility vehicles used by the Finns in at least the Continuation War. However, I can't for the life of me remember their name, model number or even country of origin, but I do know they existed and were highly...

Finn here, we have a similar situation to the Croatian described earlier in the thread that we are allowed to own guns, but the process of getting a license is so convoluted and expensive that a lot of people don't bother. We also don't have gun carrying laws, either open or concealed, which...

Can you clarify? You have a former Imperial Japanese Naval Officer, in the wake of WW2 as the head of a foreign navy and of a country formerly occupied by the Japanese (even if run by the French). How do you justify this? Also on the use of M1 Garands, M1 carbines would be better, simply for...

Sooo, Finland stays a part of Russia?

1890s actually. Hawaii became a US territory in 1898.

I'm afraid you're wrong, my fellow countryman. The Viet Minh succeeded against the French with minimal Soviet aid. Most of their equipment during the French War was French, Japanese or funnily enough, American. They also had the support of large swathes of the people, and after 1945, the French...

That's hardcore academics for you. Even if the question brings up important points about real history, because it has that AH twist, it's automatically rubbish to them.

Loving the thread, get that update coming. Hey, a fellow China foreigner! I left Beijing years ago, but I still feel a lasting affection for the country. But now tell me, what's a lao wai doing in Xinjiang? I'm surprised they even let you there (although I guess the situation was a bit more...