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Trains carry tanks as well as goods. I wouldn't be surprised if Russia leaned on them not to get too cozy with China.
by magicsmoke 7y ago
Trains carry tanks as well as goods. I wouldn't be surprised if Russia leaned on them not to get too cozy with China.
- redis_mlc 7y agoCorrect. I believe in WW2 the Germans had a problem with different gauge in Russia, and horses were still used mainly, and of course got eaten! :)
- kposehn 7y agoYep! Though, the different gauge was actually not intentional by Stalin to make things harder on the Germans but actual a decision by the tzar (debunking that old myth)
- thaumasiotes 7y agoAccording to legend, when the king of Qin wanted to conquer Shu (which occupied an enviable defensive position behind two mountain ranges), he offered Shu's king a diplomatic gift, five large stone statues. Given the obvious impossibility of taking the statues across the mountains on foot, he also offered to construct a road from Qin into Shu at his own expense. The king of Shu accepted, the road was built, and the statues arrived. The armies of Qin followed shortly thereafter.
- magicsmoke 7y agoThe way I've heard this legend was that the king of Qin enticed the king of Shu to take the statues by making it appear they could defecate gold. At night, he would have servants drop gold around their hinds, and in the morning he would coincidentally take Shu ambassadors on a walk near the statues. That's how the news got to the Shu king about these miraculous gold-pooping cows.