Pyotr Stolypin Puns

Is there any historical consensus on this event?

In Victoria 2 it's not too terribly difficult to make Russia into a powerhouse with a fair bit of investment in education and pre-building factories for workers to be in everywhere, but I've been thinking about how many roadblocks there will be for Russia as there were historically. Interest groups definitely seem like they have biggest potential to be a wrench in modernization, with the many Slavophiles of the 19th century pushing back against all things Western.

The serfs will also be a major problem. I think it will probably be outrageously hard to integrate the serfs into a modern industrial economy. By the time of emancipation from serfdom in history in 1861, it looks like serfs were somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of the population, which is just an enormous amount of uneducated, unqualified workers to educate. I also wonder how the game will represent emancipation, or if there will be ways to make it more radical with more potential to change the economy. The emancipation didn't do too much to alter their lives really, with them having to make payments to their lords and hardly being given any land of their own, it was hardly a crowd favorable to become a modern industrial workforce. Who knows, perhaps working with Interest Groups well enough there will be a way to make the serfs better equipped to be the future of industry, maybe by enacting an earlier version of the reforms of Pyotr Stolypin from the pre-WWI period, trying to break the communal farms to create strong more efficient individual landowners, the "wager on the strong" and the rest can go work in the factories, strengthening the country further.

Anyway, just some rambling, probably not entirely coherent thoughts on Russia in Victoria 3. No matter what I'm sure it will be an interesting country to play. It has always been tied for my favorite in Victoria 2 along with Japan.

Had a very fun game playing Russia in HPM where I did what I call the "Sergei Witte Experience," or "Pyotr Stolypin Overdrive". Basically the goal was to turn Russia into a liberal industrial, military, and cultural megapower - all while keeping the Glorious Czar on the throne. See below the results, after defeating Germany and the UK in a completely unfair defensive Great War.

#1 GP, Absolute Monarchy. Yep, it's enlightened czarism time

Europe in 1905. Note that Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the Balkans, are all in my Sphere.

A rough timeline of my game and my method:

• Peace out the Caucuses Wars right away in a White Peace. Use the resulting militancy to become the Czar Liberator and free the Serfs in 1836. Russia will be a nation of Kulak yeoman farmers, not of peasants.
• Declare war on the dastardly Prussias to take Silesia. They know how to read in Silesia. They will be useful to me later.
• Russia must become an educated, modern state. Focus on Natl. Focus and Education techs, get Intellectuals to 2-2.5% in every state. Fund Education and Administration to the Maximum. Do whatever Taxes and Tariffs are necessary to run a surplus. They will be freed from the yoke of the taxman soon...
• I will need resources later: Sphere Norway, Sweden, Persia, Denmark, Manchuria, and Korea.
• Modernize my military with the Clausewitzian 4/1/5 stacks, always on alert in case of Prussia and/or Austria wanting Silesia back, and turn my attention east: Seize Western Manchuria from the Qing.
• Once I have all my intellectuals and my average literacy hits approx. 20-25% (around 1855), I begin to force this backwards nation into industrial modernity. Put the Pan-Slavicists in power. Leveraging the vast resources of Russia, I construct factories for key consumer goods (liquor, clothes, furniture, Paper,) and industrial products (Steel, Lumber, Cement, Machine Tools)
• To drive domestic demand for the industrial products, I begin covering the entirety of Russia in Railroads. Tariffs remain high to protect my factories from competition. Sergei Witte indeed!
• But even the glorious direction of the Czar will not be enough in perpetuity - I need a domestic bourgeoisie. Once I have a healthy number of factories ru

part 1: Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan left the republic in 1923 via referendum, the Cossacks and Russians have a grudge but the country was stable lately...well until he came. Rasputin fled Russia after he was prosecuted by both Kolchak and Kerensky for his mystic things that they thought they were a bit suspicious. Then Lazar Kaganovich started his own Alash clique. Communist Alash republic is in the east and Kornilov's junta is in the west

1. Lavr Kornilov

ideology: authoritarian democracy, conservative democracy (after unification)

description: Kornilov's Steppe governate is was mostly about equality because that would be the first problem, he always knows how to solve problems and he wants to keep Kazakhstan independent from Kerensky.

2. Pyotr Stolypin

ideology: Authoritarian democracy

description: Stolypin is Kornilov's enemy, unlike Kornilov he wants to integrate the steppes back to Russia and to save them from the British.

3. Gregory Rasputin

ideology: Despotism (theocracy)

description: Rasputin went in hiding in Kazakhstan and Kornilov does not mind him preaching the word of god there, in this timeline Rasputin is still a mad preacher but wasn't popular until 1919, he also creates the State of God where he extends his preaching and plans to reunify Russia under god similar to Alexy I.

4.Lazar Kaganovich

ideology: vanguard socialism

description: Kaganovich was sent to Kazakhstan to retrieve king Kirill to Russia by the Mladorossi, little did Kazembek know that Kaganovich started a revolution that split Kazakhstan instead of bringing the tsar.

5. Tsar Kirill I

ideology: Libertarian democracy, Nationalism (Kazembek's puppet)

description: Tsar Nikolai's brother Kirill was left in Kazakhstan being stuck in his house because Kornilov does not let him do anything fearing that he may mingle with politics and eventually become tsar.

6. Lev Kamenev

ideology: revisionist socialism

description: Kamenev was one of the big 3 with Lenin and Trotsky. He is the libertarian socialist and wants a free Russia.

part 2: Russian leaders I forgot

1. Konstantine rodzaevsky

ideology: Reactionary

location: Amur and Chita

description: Rodzaevsky and Vonsiatsky have mane tropes that nazis have, just that he belieives in Russian superiority, he mainly wants to take all of the Slavic nations just to become some Giant nazi Slavic union.

2. Anastasy Vonsiatsky

ideology: nationalism

location: Amur

description: unlike Rodzaevsky, he is a Ru

The First World War. World War I. The Seminal Tragedy. The Great War. The War to End All Wars.

In popular history narratives of the conflict with those names, it is not uncommon for writers or documentary-makers to utilise cliche metaphors or dramatic phrases to underscore the sheer scale, brutality, and impact of the fighting between 1914 - 1918. Indeed, it is perhaps the event which laid the foundations for the conflicts, revolutions, and transformations which characterised the “short 20th century”, to borrow a phrase from Eric Hobsbawm. It is no surprise then, that even before the Treaty of Versailles had been signed to formally end the war, people were asking a duo of questions which continues to generate debate to this day:

How did the war start? Why did it start?

Yet in attempting to answer those questions, postwar academics and politicians inevitably began to write with the mood of their times. In Weimar Germany, historians seeking to exonerate the previous German Empire for the blame that the Diktat von Versailles had supposedly attached to them were generously funded by the government and given unprecedented access to the archives; so long as their ‘findings’ showed that Germany was not to blame. In the fledgling Soviet Union, the revolutionary government made public any archival material which ‘revealed’ the bellicose and aggressive decisions taken by the Tsarist government which collapsed during the war. In attempting to answer how the war had started, these writers were all haunted by the question which their theses, source selection, and areas of focus directly implied: who started it?

Ever since Fritz Fischer’s seminal work in the 1960s, the historiography on the origins of World War I have evolved ever further still, with practices and areas of focus constantly shifting as more primary sources are brought to light. This Monday Methods post will therefore identify and explain those shifts both in terms of methodological approaches to the question(s) and key ‘battlegrounds’, so to speak, when it comes to writing about the beginning of the First World War. Firstly however, are two sections with the bare-bones facts and figures we must be aware of when studying a historiographical landscape as vast and varied as this one.

#Key Dates

To even begin to understand the origins of the First World War, it is essential that we have a firm grasp of the key sequence of events which unfolded during the July Crisis in

Today is the fourteenth of September! MOASS almost definitely confirmed for today, because as more and more apes direct register at ComputerShare, IBKR indicates they are overwhelmed by many messages and WealthSimple presumably falsely claims they're ordered to stop the whole direct registration process! Look what this day brought us over the past years, and just imagine what that day will bring us in 2021! <3

Events

81 – Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.

629 – Emperor Heraclius enters Constantinople in triumph after his victory over the Persian Empire.

786 – "Night of the three Caliphs": Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi. Birth of Harun's son al-Ma'mun.

919 – Battle of Islandbridge: High King Niall Glúndub is killed while leading an Irish coalition against the Vikings of Uí Ímair, led by King Sitric Cáech.

1180 – Genpei War: Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.

1226 – The first recorded instance of the Catholic practice of perpetual Eucharistic adoration formally begins in Avignon, France.

1402 – Battle of Homildon Hill results in an English victory over Scotland.

1607 – Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.

1682 – Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.

1723 – Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena lays down the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta.

1741 – George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.

1752 – The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).

1763 – Seneca warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Devil's Hole during Pontiac's War.

1782 – American Revolutionary War: Review of the French troops under General Rochambeau by General George Washington at Verplanck's Point, New York.

1791 – The Papal States lose Avignon to Revolutionary France.

1808 – Finnish War: Russians defeat the Swedes at the Battle of Oravais.

1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée enters Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city.

1814 – Battle of Baltimore: The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner.

1829 – The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War.

1846 – Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court.

1862 – Ame

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

Pilot on me!!

Christopher Walken

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Or would that be too forward thinking?

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

When I got home, they were still there.

I won't be doing that today!

Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

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There hasn't been a post all year!