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  1. Sedentary non-agricultural civilization in Europe?

    80 percent of Novgorodians were sedentary farmers (and most of the rest were craftspeople and merchants). The Republic exported a lot of furs, but actual full-time hunters were a small minority of its population.
  2. Ukraine demographics if taken by CPs

    Ukrainian demographers have tried to answer a very similar question. Their best guess is that Ukraine would have had 87 million residents by 1991 without wars and government terror (that is, without WWI as well).
  3. How come Hitler/the Nazis didn't dislike the Magyars for being "Asiatic"?

    Another inconsistent point in the Nazi 'racial science': the Nazis tried to exterminate the Poles and the Ukrainians, but were allied with Slovakia, even though all three peoples are very similar in language, appearance etc. They also approved of their Croatian allies genociding the Serbs...
  4. WI Wallies Stalingrad

    Thanks for reminding me of it, I agree that growing population totals can mask significant decreases in specific groups, and I should have taken this into account. However, most military-age men of 1942 were actually born pre-WWI, and annual births in the early 20th century (until 1915) were as...
  5. WI Wallies Stalingrad

    How did Britain afford 744,000 combat deaths in WWI, then? It suffered twice the WWII losses with a somewhat lower population, and still maintained a huge army in the trenches (over 80 divisions!), navy crews which were as numerous as in WWII, and an industrial workforce of a similar size (while...
  6. Which language, other than Hebrew, could be revived from a position with zero native speakers?

    Secondary and higher education was offered primarily in Latin (at least in Austrian Galicia) till 1848 and 1817, respectively. Of course, it was before the era of mass education, and Latin was replaced by vernaculars precisely to make education more accessible. However, even when Latin was the...
  7. What if Russia invaded Ukraine?

    Where and when? I'm genuinely interested, since I live in Ukraine, have followed the war's events closely (including by reading Russian reports), have met both our soldiers and refugees from the war zone, but I have never heard of anything like that. Quite a few war crimes have been committed by...
  8. Meiji delegations

    Because the Western powers were not a hivemind. Quite the contrary, they were at each other's throats often enough. If, say, Germany refused to help the Japanese modernization effort, France (defeated by the Germans in 1870-71) would be only too happy to make more money than it did OTL by...
  9. Why aren't other victims of the Holocaust as discussed as Jewish victims?

    Probably because 'Slav' is often used as another way of saying 'Soviet' or even 'Russian.'
  10. If the Central Powers Win WWI, How Likely is WWII to Eventually Occur?

    They were loyal to the Skoropadsky regime, which they saw as their protector from the Russian Bolsheviks and Ukrainian Socialists. Had Skoropadsky tried to send them to fight fellow Russian officers of the White Movement, they would have likely rebelled. Also, when Skoropadsky attempted...
  11. Greater Ukraine

    If they will, and if Vasyl will manage to fund and feed his army without robbing Ukrainian peasants, the Greater Ukraine will have a fighting chance, yes. Still, it will be a very fragile entity in its early years. I'm all for Ukraine wanks, I just like them to be plausible, and I believe that...
  12. Greater Ukraine

    Yes, if King Vasyl created a functioning state over 1918 and did not get overthrown for that state's policies like Skoropadsky did, his mobilization effort would have likely been somewhat more successful than Petliura's feeble attempts OTL (but would it have been sufficient to repel the Reds?)...
  13. Greater Ukraine

    Petliura had massive support in late 1918 OTL, he supported all peasant demands throughout his time in power, and still, he couldn't keep people in his army: the Ukrainian army numbered 140,000 men in December 1918, most of them local anti-Hetmanate guerrillas (according to Abbott and Pinak's...
  14. Greater Ukraine

    The thing is, all Ukrainian regimes (except the West Ukrainian People's Republic) lacked true mass support and at the same time, faced well-armed, well-organized (especially on the local level) and politically active (but largely unpatriotic) population. The Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of...
  15. Greater Ukraine

    Austria-Hungary had no gold to spare by 1918, and neutrals, while rich in gold due to their trade with both warring coalitions, would probably be wary of lending to a newly independent nation which had just gone through a coup and was not recognized by the Entente (BTW, Sweden was relatively...
  16. Greater Ukraine

    All Central Powers had fiat currencies since 1914, so why would they lend some of their fairly limited gold reserves to Ukraine to allow it to have a gold-backed currency? Yes, it could have been done, since Ukraine's gold requirements were fairly low and probably could have been covered with...
  17. Greater Ukraine

    The Central Powers needed Ukrainian grain. How would King Vasyl persuade Ukrainian peasants to sell grain to the state, given that the state had nothing to offer in exchange apart from new paper money?
  18. Greater Ukraine

    Oh, most people were indifferent about the idea of government, they just didn't want to pay anything to maintain that government (or its German/Austrian allies). You are obviously right that Skoropadsky's reactionary agrarian policies were an even greater problem than taxation, but even if he...
  19. Greater Ukraine

    You probably meant 1918, not 1917, didn't you? Skoropadsky was hated by most Ukrainians, and not only due to German/Austrian exactions and reprisals, but also because most people did not want to have a functional government. Any functional government needs taxes, but in Ukraine of 1918-20...
  20. Greater Ukraine

    Well, the Poles, the Finns, and even the Estonians did it in OTL - because Soviet Russia was actually quite weak during the Civil War, and it almost always retreated when it met a well-organized army on that army's home ground. It's just that Ukraine was even weaker, because most Ukrainians...
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