A tribute to the late Chancellor Heinrich Himmler of the United Baltic Duchy. Once a chicken farmer, Himmler's reign marks a period of prosperity and increased mutually beneficial cooperation with Germany while keeping the Soviet Union in checks
Napoleon Bonaparte II to his men after surrendering at the Battle of the Marne in 1854. The peace terms allowed his soldiers to return to France and to civilian life, but his abdication and exile were required by the Anglo-Prussian Alliance that defeated France in the Five Years War. France would be carved up, with some territory going to Belgium and Prussia, Brittany becoming an independent puppet of Britain, the north of France being turned into a Kingdom of Normandy led by a restored Bourbon monarchy (and subject to the whims of the Prussians and British in economic affairs) and southern France forming into the Republic of Aquitaine.
Rahul Gandhi, to his voters in the Muslim state of Bangla, during the day of defiance, the day in which most of the Indian men in Dacca refused to be conscripted by the british, and instead, registered to be in the army of Indian liberation, to fight in the Anglo-Indian war.
Austria-Hungary was one of the few countries of western Eurasia to be Buddhist, based off close ties with the Tengrist Empire starting in the 1200's. It eventually became powerful enough to found colonies in the Caribbean. During the 1700's, this was spoken by a governor who believed in a now-discredited theory of Buddhism being more widespread in Antiquity.
- Joseph Stalin, to one of his Communist party comrades, after executing the entire crew of the movie vines of wrath.
General Secretary Walter Ulbricht in a speech to supporters during the 1962 German Elections. The speech advocated for what the press dubbed "The Western Wall" which meant various things to its various proponents with the only uniting feature with it facing the French Unitary Republic. Ulbricht however called for a legitimate wall, backed by fortifications stretching from the North Sea to the Swiss Confederacy. The Wall has had many detractors though. Free trade proponents say its obstruction of trade is unforgivable, economists decry its expensiveness both building and maintaining and some geopolitical analysts oppose isolating France, instead saying that interconnection with the democratic community could bring down the regime or force its democratization.
President Napoleon III of the Second French Republic, debating whether or not to declare himself Emperor in 1852. In the end, he decided not to and just stayed as President for Life.
Nikita Khrushchev remembers the USSR's simultaneous invasion of the Raj via Afghanistan, invasion of Japanese territory on the Asian continent, and attacking US bases in the North Pacific. Decisions which cost the USSR dearly, and dragged down their German allies with them.
Prime minister Pyotr Stolypin to the Russian Imperial Duma in 1942, at the beginning of his 3. tenure as prime minister. Having lead the modernization of Russia in the early 1900 century, Stolypin was dismised from his function by Tsar Nicholas II. with the support of the overwhelmingly millitarist Duma due to his opposition to involving Russia in WW1, he was first recalled following the catastrophic defeats against Central Powers, which lead to a communist uprising in Russia. Stolypin would provide the necessary leadership to the government forces, crushing the bolsheviks and restoring the Russian monarchy, though constitutional this time, while taking almost dictatorial powers for himself. Ruling untill 1932, he oversaw the resurgence of Russia, using clever diplomacy to divide the Central powers and retake central asia and parts of Caucases for Russia. In 1932, he was struck by serious illness, which allowed his rivals, and pro-democratic members of Duma to sideline him and then force him into retirement. Considered to be a finished man, Stolypin would retire for 10 years, waiting for the right moment to return. This would come in 1942, when, due to the mismanagment by previous governments, Russia found itself at war with Communist Germany, Imperial Japan and various fascist regimes in the Balkans and Asia minor. With the army nearing collapse and Russias allies having been spurned and antagonised by the previous government, Tsar Alexei II. recalled Stolypin. The 80 year old man then publicly chastised Duma for their incompetence, taking the most severe shots at those who previously removed him from power. In the end, the old politician would once again lead Russia to victory, dieing in 1948, mere days after returning to Moscow from the Luxembourg peace conference. His speach to the Duma remains one of the most popular speaches in history.
A quote from The Hussite Wars about the Hussite's struggle for recognition in the Reformation era HRE. This specific quote refers to the Polish Intervention when the Catholic ruler of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth invaded Bohemia, which had just been seized by Hussites after their victory at the Battle of White Mountain. While the Hussites were unable to stand up to the Poles they launched a effective guerilla campaign against them and managed to frame being a Hussite as being pro-Bohemian. This drew many more to the Hussite faith and even in surrounding areas threatened by Polish invasion. Today while there are only a few areas in Bohemia and its surroundings which are expressly majority Hussite, the Hussites who remain are a sizeable minority and have been used by the Bohemian state throughout the centuries as a way to further their geopolitical goals, whatever those may be
Common saying that went along with the Notsi Salute, it was named after supreme leader of the Swedish-German Commonwealth, Adolf Hortler, and was banned upon the end of the Second Great War.
Phrase offered to honor former Minnesota governor Harold Stassen on every April 13 by the current governor. Stassen was diagnosed with late-onset Schizophrenia in 1948 while in office. Despite his, he continued to serve in his position until 1960, and in doing so, helped break the taboo around mental illness in the United States. The phrase in question is a tongue-in-cheek reference to his final speech, wherein he proclaimed himself "God, the Emperor, God-Emperor!" In his typical fashion, in 1962, he reintroduced himself using a similar phrase, as well as penning it into his will.
The last words of John Lennon, noted British Left-Wing activist of the 1960s, spoken shortly before a bomb, planted by the People's Liberation Front of England, detonated during a special session of the English Liberation Front. Contemporary reports cited ideological squabbling and years of tension between the groups as the reasons behind the attack, which left a dozen dead and over a hundred wounded. The state newspapers satirized the conflict between the group, with particular effort of ex-members John Cleese and Graham Chapman.
Allegedly said by Empress Maria Theresa II. Habsburg-Lorraine in 1817. Having followed her father Joseph II. on the Imperial throne, after his modernization of succesion laws, Maria Theresa proved herself as strong a reformer as her father. This here refers to her relligious equality reforms following the Habsburg aquisition of Bosnia and Serbia in 1810's, which officially granted the relligious rights to all the Jews, Muslims and Christians of the empire. She would later on create the foundation for the national equality that would lay the groundwork for her sucessors work of creating the United Imperial States of Danube.
Mikhail Gorbochev in a 1995 speech during his self-imposrd exile to Germany after the Second Russian Civil War began in October 1993 during the constitutional crisis. After a messy incident in Moscow where Boris Yeltsin, president of the the Russian Federation accidently shot himself, hysteria broke down the crisis even further, spiraling the country further into crisis, until a monarchist coup was attempted on December 24, which launched the Second Russian Civil War, which only ended seven years later, with the Vladivostok Agreement.
After Patton (Commander General of the United States of New Sparta) slapped two soldiers for apparent insubordination, they were forced to apologize for their provocation. This tongue in cheek response (no pun intended) from solider #1 was deemed not sufficiently apologetic and so the solider was tried for cowardice and shot. Soldier #2's response was far more contrite.
The Confederate newspaper The Richmond Register regarding the chaotic events of the last week of 1998 - US President Alec Richardson died in a freak accident involving an elephant, a woodchipper and three marrionettes, and then his Vice President, Daniel Martov before he could actually take the oath of office as new president, was arrested by the Federal Directorate of Criminal Investigation for 17 counts of corruption, 3 counts of extortion and 1 count of attempted murder (of his wife). This meant the Speaker of the House should be President, but there was no Speaker because the last one had resigned and the majority New Whigs in the House was still electing a new one, which meant that President Pro Tempe of the Senate became president of the Union - Elizabeth Carroway.
A question on a standard test in the Canadian Republic's World History CORE curriculum. The question in and of itself is not that controversial, but it did come under some scrutiny for its vaugeness. Between the failure of the Articles and the Columbian Wars of Unification in the early 2000s there were no less than 57 wars between Boston and Rhode Island. In fact, Boston became a 'Peoples Republic' in 1824 after the execution of Prince Mayor Thomas Hartford and kept that name until their conquest by the Colombians in 2009. After some discussion the question was narrowed and became "What happened when the People's Republic of Boston declared war on the Kingdom of Rhode Island in 1923" with the expected answer being something to the effect of "not much"
