Comments by "TotalRookie_LV" (@TotalRookie_LV) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

  1. The inscription on the side made it absolutely epic, nice touch. I wonder how much 8 dollars could buy back then? Like what was the price of an average horse, a musket or a revolver, a pound of meat and bread?
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  2. "..to support Communist government..." Well, since Soviet actions in 1979 Afghanistan started with the assault on presidential palace and slaughter of the head of that government (killing almost everyone else in the palace too), no wonder it was called "an invasion".
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  3. LoL, once upon a time Germans had a real talent in turning neutral nations against them.
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  4. The WASTE of life it was indeed.
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  5. True, we only get some small insight from movies about river streamers and books like those about Tom Sawyer. I live over the Pond, we do have some paddle-wheel ships for tourists here in Europe, including one in my hometown, her name is "Misisipi" (with the wheel in aft, not sides). I guess it's not an actual steamer, just made to look like one, and her chimneys fold down, if there is a need to go under really low bridges... Hmm, now I'm not even sure if the paddle wheel is more than just a decoration.
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  6. So, the Gallipoli operation wasn't just poorly thought through, it had really ill faith before soldiers even left UK - first a barge and then this catastrophe.
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  7.  @bigblue6917  From now on I will have hard time not to chuckle when encountering "cappi di tutti cappi" (head of all heads)
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  8. A very "fresh" idea - just look at many, many three wheeled cars, small cars, motor carriages, mopeds, bicycles with engines etc that popped up in Europe and Japan after WWII.
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  9. I was only a small kid, but Andropovs times in USSR in my memory pretty much associate only with one thing - fear. It's not like in movies about WWII with Nazis patrolling streets, no, it just was in the air. Luckily he died really soon.
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  10. Maybe this even was one of the factors leading to WWII, since a number of youth, specifically young males, is a pretty good indicator of aggression in a society, and thus a good predictor of crime rate, revolutions and wars. This pandemic killed young healthy people who would be in early forties by late 1930s, thus there were fewer middle-aged people and disproportionately many young hot-heads born in 1920s.
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  11. Yeah, not all crusades went to Near East. I live in one of those countries conquered in several crusades, it's in Northern Europe, so climate here is akin to that in Canada.
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  12. A ship sunk by it's own shit.
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  13. "Children of the corn" Clans, extrajudicial "justice", arguments involving firearms... Wow, those people were seriously lagging behind western civilisation, sounds more like tribal territory of Pakistan, Northern Africa or some other not exactly the most developed region.
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  14.  @MrJest2  Well, my ancestors were freed from serfdom ("semi-slavery" as Wiki put it) in 1830s, and in the rest of Russian empire it was abolished only in 1860s, so I'm sort of familiar with the idea of regions not as developed as their neighbours, it's just I wasn't expecting this from US, especially given where it's capital is.
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  15. WoW, this was unexpected... Judging by the title, I thought it will be about turmoil here in Europe in the aftermath of WWI, in 1919 my country was still in civil war between three opposing factions.
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  16. No probe was ever sent specifically to Uranus? Well, I'm not saying it is because someone found probing Uranus to be inappropriate, actually it got to be something simple as being too expensive, besides Mars and Jupiter system, as well as Saturn's moons are much more interesting targets.
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  17. Wasn't Iowa class also involved in bombardment of Nicaragua in 1980s?
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