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Seeing such tactics unfold in real time surprisingly does not have the same effect as reading about them in a history book. Perhaps it's the sense of disbelief
by LordShredda 3y ago
Seeing such tactics unfold in real time surprisingly does not have the same effect as reading about them in a history book. Perhaps it's the sense of disbelief at how much one can be devoted, or tunnel-visioned, to a cause?
Hannibal's suicide might seem inspiring and patriotic, but the CIA/soviet pilots' suicide pills are cult-like. The Romans forcing their language and culture on captured land seems smart, but Mussolini's Italy doing such are called fascist.
- sudosysgen 3y agoThe big difference between Romans and Italians under Mussolini is that Romans were much less ethnonationalist, and would eventually accept the people who learnt their language as their own, even allowing them to become powerful politicians. But indeed, there are fascists elements in Rome, and that's no coincidence - the Fasces from which fascism takes its name, a bundle of sticks around an ax, was a symbol of the authority of the Roman state.