That's a strawman AND misinformation in one sentence.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle_cell_disease
The idea was that they died at lower rates, not that they were immune. Which was true (the dying at lower rates). Outside of sugar plantations, (mistreated!) African slaves had a...
Was he involved with it at all, or is that a decision somebody else made?
This is the same Rommel that thought Nazism meant you could have Jewish governors.
Ski troops were particularly effective in areas of Finland with discontinuous front. This allowed them to surround and destroy road-bound Soviet columns deep in the woods.
Moscow was more dense, to put it mildly. Tossed into the frontal meatgrinder? Marginally more effective and mobile, but...
When I search this topic (why sugar cane farming was so deadly), I only get hints and anecdotes. Could someone point me to a solid article analyzing mortality in sugar cane plantations (during and after slavery)?
India never leaves the British empire, and the British Empire never breaks up. The British Empire becomes a superpower, and is in truth an Indian empire because India becomes the strongest and most influential part.
Off-topic, but this is literally Rwandan government propaganda for the purpose of integrating Tutsis and Hutus and externalizing their problems to the Belgians. It's sort of a noble lie to heal the country.
Despite there being some mobility between the two ethnic groups, they really were...
I'm not seeing the Farewell dossier, Chernobyl, oil or the arms race here.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farewell_Dossier
When the price of oil crashed in 1986 the soviet economy was hit hard. Combined with the (continuing unbalancing from the) arms race, western monkeywrenching, and the...