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Explanation: On the Western Front in WW1, unofficial truces were sometimes honored between the warring sides for holidays, especially religious holidays, though the brass tried to crack down on it (often successfully).
On the Eastern Front in WW1, unofficial truces were sometimes honored between the warring sides because fucking wolves developed a taste for human flesh from starvation from all the war scaring off their usual prey. These included officer-approved truces, because being attacked by wolves was something both sides agreed was a poor way to go in a shooting war.
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I feel the same. I learn something new almost every day thanks to PugJesus. Learning about history through memes is fun!
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Good memes, but keep in mind they're occasionally pure American propaganda.
Such as?
I don't keep track, but I remember a few posts about Yugoslavia being good examples.
Post history is public. If you want to make a statement like that without providing a simple example, you're clearly trolling and stirring up bullshit.
The well-known American ally of [checks notes]
... Socialist Yugoslavia
What do historical relations have to do with you parroting propaganda?
Also, check your notes again, Yugoslavia was never formally allied with the USA... And while you're at it, remind me how many of the unaligned countries were invaded by the USA?
... considering that I generally praise Yugoslavia on here, it would be pretty fucking questionable to claim that I'm parroting "American propaganda" in doing so.
... yeah, that's kind of the point I was making. Accusing praising Yugoslavia of being pro-US propaganda is pretty fucking absurd in light of the fact that Yugoslavia was pretty prominently non-US aligned.
So absurd that I didn't even think of that... I was talking about American propaganda regarding the breakup of Yugoslavia.
... what, exactly, are you saying is American propaganda? Genocide?
This is how I cement my understanding that this is the Russians v Germans, not China v Japan (or other Asian countries). They would have used the wolf attacks to gain an advantage. /S, mildly