WTFhistory

I was doing research on Napoleon when I found it again

My favorite picture of him

“Try to beat me THIS time, Russia!!!”

I just laughed out loud at this for 5 minutes

Winter is coming.

Empresses of Russia:

1) Catherine II (the great)

2) Marie Feodorovna 

3) Elizaveta Alexeevna

4) Alexandra Feodorovna

5) Marie Alexandrovna

6) Marie Feodorovna

7) Alexandra Feodorovna 

wrathofprawn:

how the fuck is this not taught in every single history class ever

pilots (◡‿◡✿) 

girl pilots (◕‿◕✿)

girl pilots killing nazis ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* \(◕ヮ◕✿)/ *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

But, remember, women never did anything in history.

This is laughably incorrect.

Fact 1: Although technologically obsolete as of WWII, the Polikarpov Po-2 “Kukuruznik” biplanes flown by the 588th Night Bomber Regiment were in no way ” the oldest, noisiest, crappest planes in the entire world.” The Po-2 was first flown in 1929 and remained in production until 1953 due to its low cost and extreme reliability. It is, in fact, the second most produced aircraft in history, and the most produced biplane in history. The night bombers flew brand new, specially modified Po-2s fitted with bomb racks and machine guns.

Fact 2: The Po-2 was extremely quiet; Germans nicknamed it the Nähmaschine (“sewing machine”) due to the muted rattling sound its tiny little 99-horsepower radial engine made. The night bombers would fly these quiet little planes just a few meters off the ground, then climb to higher altitude, cut the engine, and glide to the attack point so that the Germans would have no warning of an incoming attack other than wind whistling through the wing bracing-wires. It wasn’t because the engines were unreliable, it was a planned attack pattern.

Fact 3: Saying “their leader flew over 200 missions” is both inaccurate and damning with faint praise. Whereas most combat pilots fly only one or two sorties per day, all of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment pilots flew multiple missions every night, with the record being eighteen missions flown back-to-back-to-back-to-back in a single night. By the end of the war, most of the “Night Witches” had around a thousand combat sorties under their belts.

The Night Witches were THAT fucking badass, and it pisses me off when people get it all wrong because they’re too damn lazy to do their homework.

And this is one of the rare times the correction makes things more badass.

Wow, I now totally want to write the Temeraire-universe story of this regiment.

NIGHT WITCHES <3 <3 <3  

Love it when history posts update.

Just in case any of my followers were unaware.

sangbleu:

Catherine the Great’s sexually charged furniture, read more on www.sangbleu.com

http://sangbleu.com/2013/10/16/catherine-the-great’s-erotic-cabinet/

the Cold War is basically just the United States and the Soviet Union saying how big of a penis they have but when it comes down to it neither of them actually want to flash the other to show for fear the other actually does have a bigger penis

Holy shit, that’s spot on

I don’t post faulty penis analogies so of course it is

GUYS I JUST FOUND THIS IN MY FILES IM LAUGHING

Truer words have never been flowcharted.

Decorated Soviet Red Army soldier makes clear what he thinks of the Germans, date unknown.

Ok but that pig is REALLY cute.

June 30th 1908: Tunguska event On this day in 1908 just after 7.00am a very powerful explosion occurred in the skies above Siberia, in modern day Russia. The explosion was caused by the breakup and impact of a large meteorite. It was the largest impact event in Earth’s recorded history. The explosion was 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Around 80 million trees were knocked down by the shock wave from the impact. The cause of the event  puzzled scientists for many years, but it has recently been established that a meteorite was the cause.

Tsar Nicholas II in Balmoral castle, 1896, with (from left to right) Tsarina Alexandra Fedorovna, Grand Duchess Olga, Queen Victoria, and Edward, Prince of Wales 

Set against the backdrop of revolutionary turmoil, featuring an opportunistic mystic and hinging on an incurable bleeding disease, their tale had all the melodramatic elements of a sensational opera. (Indeed, it has inspired at least two.) The granddaughter of England’s Queen Victoria, Alix Victoria Helena Louise Beatrice—later known as Alexandra Feodorovna Romanov—rejected an arranged marriage to her first cousin, Prince Albert Victor, after falling in love with Nicholas, heir to the Russian throne, as a teenager in 1889. Equally smitten, her lover convinced his reluctant, ailing father to agree to the union, and the pair wed in November 1894, just several weeks after the czar’s death and Nicholas’ coronation.

Though forged amid great sadness, the marriage was a happy and passionate one, producing four daughters and a son, Alexei. From his father the young czarevitch inherited the claim to the Russian throne, but his mother bequeathed him a more burdensome legacy: the mutant gene for the clotting disorder hemophilia, of which both Alexandra and her grandmother Victoria were carriers. Terrified of losing Alexei, his parents became increasingly reliant on the controversial “mad monk” Grigori Rasputin, whose hypnosis treatments seemed to slow the boy’s hemorrhages. Rasputin’s political influence over the czar and czarina undermined the Russian public’s confidence in the Romanov dynasty and contributed to its overthrow during the February Revolution in 1917. Nicholas, Alexandra and their children were executed on July 16, 1918, on orders from Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. Indirectly, at least, the royal couple’s romance had opened a new and bloody chapter in Russia’s history.

You might also know them as Anastasia's parents.

on a scale of one to invade russia in the winter

how bad is your idea

 #friends don’t let friends invade russia

Leon... dude... coulda' checked in with the Weather Channel, I mean really..

Tsar Nicholas II planking, 1899

And you thought you were setting a new trend. TRY AGAIN.

my favourite thing about history is how everyone tries to invade russia but are somehow caught off guard by the russian winter 

in soviet russia country fight for you

Oh my God this is so true though, I can't even. Like the Mongols, the Swedes, the French, the Germans...

Napoleon couldn't even handle the Russian summer (though the Russians were using a retreat-and-destroy-the-land-as-they-go method). Bitch was out of there by mid-October. He came in with half a million bitches and came out with about ten thousand. Thats one in fifty men who lived. Ouch.

Don't fuck with Russia. Russia will beat you upside the head with a lead pipe called "winter".

their leader flew over 200 missions and was never captured.

how the fuck is this not taught in every single history class ever

That's what I'm here to remedy, yo.