Tell me something cool about your country's history

We had the shortest presidency in the world, only lasted 45 minutes

First democratically elected Marxist president ever in history.

Is that cool?

There's was a time when the USA was afraid of our navy

WE WUZ KANGZ

First Jewish Head of Goverment

Working as a corsair was so common amongst Maltese men under the Order's rule, that nowadays if you're Maltese you have a high chance of having one or more ancestors who were basically legal pirates.

We've had a much more brutal civil war than you did.
also Hawaii has asked for Russian protectorate but our tsar refused.
you probably know about Alaska and Fort Ross
and before the 1917-1923 things we were used to be friends
*"wish we could turn back time to the good ol' days" is playing*

Defeated Napolen and rape lots of Frenchwomen in front of the weeping French. Many of modern French got Russian genes.

gay sex was always ok

Juan de Urbieta was a Basque cavalry soldier who achieved great fame and notoriety for having taken King Francisco I of France prisoner at the Battle of Pavia, fought between Spaniards and Frenchmen on February 24, 1525.

And we disbanded the inquisition in 1834

It exists.

Weren't the Druze massacring Christians in the early 19th century?

r*ssian subhumans didn't defeat Napoleon the r*ssian Winter did

we made whiteoids know their place

winners are not judged. Germans in general are humiliated from the beginning of the last century, true autists, only disgraced the whole world

In the end of 10th century our ruler Vladimir Yasno Solnyshko (Vladimir the Shiny Sun) decided to switch religion of Rus from paganism to something else. There was a choice between Rome Catholic and Greek Orthodox Christianity, Judaism and Islam. We could become whatever you can even imagine: the Jews of Europe, the second Ottomans, another usual catholic European country.

actually he was defeated at leipzig by the joint russian-german army, but if you insist... :3

Aleksandar Makedonski conquered the world

Wages were so high in the first half of the past century that workers used to lend money and buy cars for their sons

BASED

During the conquest of america one of our soldiers got lost in the jungle and ended up joining a native american tribe were he became a general,started a family and tried to fought off the spanish

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... and he wasn't a slav from northern macedonia :3

Based and redpiled

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Macedonian priests invented the Cyrillic alphabet that most normal slavic countries use nowadays.

We had the third largest fleet in the world during WWII

Thank you very much for Cyrill and Mefodyj! :) the Latin alphabet is absolutely not comfy for Russian

We had the first black president outside of Africa.

Kiril and Metodij invented the Глaгoлицa, their students Kliment and Naum made the Киpилицa

Very useful thread, it helps to gain knowledge even about your own country. But now I feel shame a bit.

we managed to go from a republic to an empire through a coup d'état and repeat the exact same thing 50 years later by someone from the same family
yes its taken out of context but I've always found this funny

we also had a republic that lasted only 4 years with one president

I thought it was the Bulgarians

you think too much, which makes you say stupid things.

Uruguay is a nation of gamers?

Sweden and the US fought a war together in the early 1800's against north african pirates

Germany banned Christians from taking interest on loans but allowed jews to do so

Three cool things about my country:
1) First nation with settlements on all five continents
2) First international vaccination campaign / healthcare expedition in history, 1803
3) We invented concentration camps.

hmm

Woah, I always thought Brits did this during the South African wars.

we have been repeatedly destroyed and humiliated in wars but still exist today for some reason

That guy has a Mexican state named after him. He was captured by that tribe together with a priest, made a slave and ended up leading the tribe. The priest eventually escaped and joined Hernán Cortés. B&rp Gonzalo stayed in his Maya tribe and fought until his death.

I know, that's why we never talk about General Weyler and nobody googles "weyler reconcentración" :3

We used to skin dogs, turn them inside out and use this to smuggle brandy

lmao

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We gave intel and logistic support to the brittish troops during the Falklands war

one russian german dude wanted to make russia turan again, so he conquer some central asia villages, this is how modern mongolia started exist.

We were supposed to become a monarchy under German empire in 1918.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Lithuania_(1918)

After we get independence in 1918 we declared war officially to another country only once - it was Japan, in 1941. They did not accept the declaration. Hideki Tojo said :
"We do not accept Poles' challenges. Poles, fighting for their freedom, declared war on us under the pressure of Great Britain. "
Funny

We had inflation of 7649.6% in the 90's with the government of Alan García, one of the worst ex-presidents of this country.

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we had a country (Russian Democratic Republic) which existed only half a hour.

tbf our founding myth said we are cousins of mermaids

based

We collapsed as a superpower in the 18th century

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Before invasion, brits built railways in Sudan and our crown prince died while riding on their rails. His brother became a ruler and he indirectly caused the Brits to invade through a chain of events.

Egypt's rulers theoughout history came from 17-20 different nations.

Persians successfully invaded Ancient Egypt during 525 BC by using tons of cats on their armies so that egyptian archers would think twice about using their bows.

When we were with UK and without Eastern France, it was better.

nowadays we only fear the Bolivian navy

Im korean
In 1960s We were the poorest country in the world but now we arw rich. Thanks to smsung,hyundai,LG and KIA

>druze
Thanks for this new word.
>As a religious minority in every country they live in, they have frequently experienced persecution, except in Lebanon and Israel where Druze judges, parliamentarians, diplomats, and doctors occupy the highest echelons of society
Are they jews of the jews?

I just read about the Druze and holy fucking shit they really are like super Jews. They openly admit to prefer their own "kind" for every facet of society imaginable. They're secretive and a bit esoteric. It's basically a cult at this point it seems. Then again all religions are a cult, just a really big one.

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The Spanish had a mission in the Chesapeake Bay in the 16th century.

I agree. If we could share our power and truely work together, we'd be fucking unstoppable. But... communism happened.

In reality the Americans invented it in the civil war and he learned it.

Guerrero, my dads side comes from there.

If you watch the show Hell on Wheels (great show I recommend it) there's an episode about it. Enemy soldiers and dissedents were "imprisoned" but they basically all died.

How's your currency doing?

Really? What's his name?

based

Wut?

Out of the fuckton of territories within Spain that have been at some point in the past a kingdom or an independent state or both, Catalonia is one of the very few that has never neither been one nor the other.

The Duke of Finland once became the King of Sweden.

We were the first country to give women the right to vote and run for office in the Parliamentary elections.

The Hakkapeliittas were a feared cavalry unit in Germany during the Thirty Years War.

One of our presidents ruled for 25 years democratically.

We were once shamans and shieet. Even after Christianity many worshipped elves and ancestors alongside Christian saints.

One village has an unpaid debt to Vatican in the form of four squirrel skins, which has been in effect since the medieval times.

The British were bombing Finland during the Winter War, and got their asses kicked by the locals in some places, when they tried to burn villages.

Winter War and Continuation War are overrated in my opinion.

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TRI MORETA

When did Spain have a settlement in Australia?

Massacring communists (not a bad thing though) while people don't really know about that since we were funded by McAmerica™

Sad

tuk s'm za teb bratko

we wuz romanz and dacianz once

We invaded Canada once

Oh yeah, I remember some Romanians mentioning that when they told about their country's history. They also claimed that Vlad did nothing wrong.

During ww2, the United states stopped constructing battleships and destroyers in 1943, simply because there was no need to stockpile anymore. We were building 4 battleships a week.

The pope declared a crusade against us for ruling the Baltic Sea.

Okay, this is based

a descendant of Alexander the Great speaking the same language with a Bulgarian, how great is that
you people are literally the definition of pure autism

not my cunt, but there is a story about Venitian traders who sailed to the ottoman empire and stole a bunch of shit and then hid barrels of pork because they knew that the Muslims wouldn't search there.

Oceania.

We almost made it to Australia too though, but the colonization of the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu meant to be the staging point for reaching Australia was unsuccesful.

we held out against the Germans for 18 days in WW II while the Dutch surrendered after a measily 3 days.

We have gnomes living in our saunas, fuckers steal our beer and sausages all the time

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This. There are also stories about them skinning people alive (not joking, there actually are lots of stories about saunaelves killing people).

Vicente Guerrero