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ladysunbite · 9 months ago

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It was amusing to have a travelling companion, riding through such bleak lands. For all his brash and vainglorious ways, Olgierd von Everec was the generous benefactor of the rare von Rogh's and swore to bring her the witcher's head. A certain gut feeling made the sun-eyed believe that the mercenary meant it. The reasons were secondary. "Very well. The road home is rather long and I would also prefer to spent it in comfort." To put it bluntly, Orianna suspected the reason why the charming ataman made his promise and loathed to confess it. Olgierd was like a mirror of herself in her youth; he craved chaos and danced through the merriment of mayhem with grace. A certain part of Orianna missed those days where she could just...forget herself. Like a recovered addict longs for a scent of fisstech.

"I know where we can get a fresh, healthy body. If you are courageous enough to conduct the ritual in Novigrad... practically under king Radovid's nose?" the cold, noble demeanor slipped from the cultured vampiress' face for a glimpse. The smile she gave Olgierd was equally bright and savage...

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They rode through the capital, following the route seemingly drawn by a madman. One would think that after a long, exasperating wait at the gates, aided by the pouring rain, which could not was away the rancid scent of many fires and the odour of burning flesh, the hedonistic vampiress would stop dead at the first establishment, clean and quite enough to accommodate them and do not kill the travellers for their horses. Yet they went to the southern part of the city, with its briny canals and worksmiths shops. Orianna halted her steed at the three-store house with the crimson curtains adorning the upper floor, smelled the air, pursed her lips and led the horse away. The same thing happened at the 5 similar houses in the richest and the poorest quarters alike. At last they arrived at the building, nor too luxurious, nor too meagre, similarly decorated with the blood-red curtains on all it's two floors. The laughter and squeals shamelessly floated through the open windows, and dissolved into the night air. Several dim lamps spilled blood-like light upon the cobblestones and wild roses hanged from the balconies in abundance. It was not necessary to name what kind of a house it was, especially since they saw all almost all 12 novigradian by now, led on the strange goose-chase.

"Something never changes...she could never deny a bit of garish," the low mutter was disapproving, once one would think she would be happy the end of their quest was reached. The horses clearly were. "Olgierd, before we enter I must ask you not to leave my side. Unless I explicitly order...ask you to." The horses were given to the groom, who smoothly appeared from the shadows. Upon closer inspection it turned out to be a young and rather pretty girl. Instead of being wary, as any lass would be with the full night creeping in, that one bowed to Orianna and grinned at Olgierd with a brazen cheer. That strange creature might be the only carefree soul they met in the whole Novigrad, the whole city eaten alive by truncated fear and suspense. "No matter what - let's say - flowers might tempt you. Especially if some will seem extremely delightful." The thug at the door was less accommodating, and eyed the charming ataman's weapons with a wary scowl. Until the sun-eyed produced a hairpin, that glittered gold in the firelight, and pinched her finger enough to draw blood. Unusually clumsy. The thug eyed the ornament greedily and agreed to take it to the Madame a bit too hastily. Yet one more miracle followed and the man returned, almost running, and breaking his spine in two, ushered "m'lady and m'lord" in with all the respectful flattery and fear he could master. They were left alone in a an empty, richly furnished chamber, with the same abundance of red, velvet and some strong herbs that made once head's spin. One corner contained the bed, but instead of being a place of rest and involuntary reminded of a ravenous mouth. Orianna lowered herself into a cushioned chair with a sigh. The chair was much more clean than their own cloth, worn out by the roads, yet it didn't save the piece of furniture from a contemptuous, dark glance from the sun-eyed.

"Did not you mention that your body parts can't grow anew, but rather it is necessary to bring...mmm...an original back? Is it different with the eyes?" such a tempting topic made the majority of spite evaporate from Orianna's voice. Hopefully, her own eyes did not betray the enthusiasm she truly felt. Magic was foreign to vampires, but such possibility as contacting the other world...the mere hope paid up with vengeance.

#lullaby of woe (ladysunbite rp answers)#fallesto

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reddest-flower · 4 months ago

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They [the Makhnovists] raised the slogan of Soviets without Parties, or more concretely Soviets without Bolsheviks. But it was the Bolshevik Party that strengthened the Soviets to first repel the Kornilov coup, and then overthrow the provisional (bourgeois) government, gathering all power in the hands of the Soviets. From February to October, no other party could defend the establishment of Soviet power by overthrowing the bourgeois government, even at the level of slogans. Lenin and the Bolsheviks insisted on “all power to the Soviets!”, putting forth this slogan where the Mensheviks and Social-Revolutionaries (Srs) dared not, even while other parties were in their majority in the Soviets. It was the Bolshevik Communist Party that brought the Soviets to power. If it hadn’t been for the October Revolution, the option for Russia would have been a tyrannical bourgeois power in which the Soviets were completely liquidated-and probably a white General of the Kornilov type would have been at the head of that regime.

During this period, the imperialist West also adopted and used the slogan “Soviets without Bolsheviks”. The counter-revolutionary Ataman Grigoryev also said that “the Soviets are fighting for their real power against the commissars” (!) (Arshinov, 1998). Because Soviets without Bolsheviks would be like a lion without teeth, would be destroyed in a few months, and the White Army generals would enter Moscow on horseback. Thus, in the context of the civil war, the slogan “Soviets without Bolsheviks” was synonymous with abandoning Soviet power.

These were the outlines of the order declared by Makhno’s Land Army. But behind this “libertarian” rhetoric, Makhno also did not shy away from building similar institutions to those Soviet ones he had banned under his own Black Flag. The Red Army was forbidden, but he had his Black Army. The Bolshevik Party was forbidden, but in areas ruled by Makhno, power was invested in his anarchist organisation. Although he might not have declared a party and did not appear as the leader of such before the masses, the organised political power of the Makhnovist anarchist movement was the only political movement in all “free” Soviets. The Cheka was forbidden, but Makhno had set up his own secret service under the label of “counter-intelligence”. Makhno’s Intelligence Department also did everything that the Cheka did (prosecution, imprisonment, trial, executions).

The Makhno Movement and Bolshevism, abstrakt, 2020

#makhno #ukraine #ussr

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seriously-mike · 4 months ago

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How The World Was Made Boringly Efficient

I have already reposted several posts about history under the tag #history was written by the Victorians, about the misconceptions that entered the public consciousness during the early modern era (mostly the Victorian age, indeed) and refuse to leave. That and, I promised a post about the modern perception of government and public services that just can't line up with fantasy worlds and, even, the ideas of some historians.

It hit me when in @milkywayan's post about medieval food, the typical idea of which is heavily tainted by Victorian ideas that, unsurprisingly, came from then-contemporary poverty food. And I really don't want to sound like Ted Kaczynski, but: blame the industrial society for that. And capitalism.

There will be a lot of things in this post that I copied from an unfinished draft of mine tentatively titled "Writing Fantasy in the Information Age" - mostly because back then I focused on the modern times entirely too much and a lot of the issues come from earlier eras. This is a general disclaimer for the tangents that will appear further on.

For the King and... That's It

The medieval (and earlier) concept of government was heavily personal, and with a lot of independence involved. I do remember, for example, scenes from the Asterix comics where the Roman governors did as they pleased and as long as their duties towards Rome were fulfilled (for example, paying the set taxes and pocketing much more for personal gain) they were left unbothered. The same can be said about patriotism, or more precisely the loyalty to the ruler, because the concepts of patriotism and nation as we understand it are Enlightenment-era ideas. And when I'm saying it was personal, it was personal. For example, the entire clusterfuck that was 17th century Poland started with the overly inflated ambitions of Swedish Prince Sigismund Vasa, a fanatical Catholic (oh shit) elected the king of Poland. His fanaticism caused us no end of trouble and wasted opportunities - for example, in order to hold the Swedish throne after his father Johan III died, he had to be forced to sign religious liberties for the local Protestants and never really gave up ideas of Catholic reconquista of Sweden, leading the regent, Sigismund's uncle Karl IX to oust him and take the throne, which led to over half a century of violent dynastic shin-kicking as both sides tried to take over the other without much success. Mostly because Sigismund refused to allow his son, prince Władysław, to change his faith for political reasons - neither to secure the Swedish throne nor, after we thoroughly kicked a lot of Muscovite ass, the throne of Russia. Just fucking imagine: we forced the Russian tsar Vassily Shuysky to pay homage to king Sigismund and accept prince Władysław as the new tsar only for the king to go "lol, nope" and scuttle the whole plan. All that despite two centuries and a half of wide-ranging religious tolerance introduced by king Casimir the Great and reinforced by various acts throughout the reign of the Jagiellonian dynasty.

And since we're at the 17th century clusterfuck, there's the issue of Cossack ataman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, who caused us a lot of trouble because nobody gave a shit about his personal feud with noble Daniel Czapliński. Basically, Czapliński stole part of Khmelnytsky's land, Khmelnytsky filed complaints to everyone higher and higher up culminating in an audience with the king, and achieved fuck-all. Much like a lot of people trying to get any help from the Polish government ever since. Worse yet, he was given a lot of shit for being that old-school Ruthenian Orthodox Cossack with a stupid haircut, mostly from the local prince Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, who was as much of a Polish Catholic poser as he could be. So, unfortunately, Khmelnytsky made some hasty and truly weird alliances, started a war and lost it, much like a lot of neglected Cossack leaders before and after him. Neglected, you ask? Well, I told you it was personal: the local nobles weren't willing to accept the Cossack leaders as people of equal standing, for various reasons, and treated them like uppity peasants.

And as for filing complaints to the King, we don't have the greatest track record about that either - for example, @bizarrepotpourri cited an example from the 15th century chronicle of Jan Długosz, regarding robber knights in southern Poland, that apparently never saw a resolution, as the stories of supposed punishment have multiple contradicting versions that don't line up with any records and sound like a smear campaign orchestrated by a rival noble family that was unsuccessfully tempted into treason by the Hungarians.

So, don't be surprised by all the free-for-all fuckery that goes on in A Song of Ice and Fire, for example. GRRM, while being laughably inept in some fields and rude and unreasonable about others, nailed the ambitions and liberties medieval nobles had, the way kings had to rely on the nobles by bribing and threatening them when necessary, and not really giving a shit as long as the internal conflicts didn't threaten the Royal house. Also, back to the elevator pitch for this post, and the quote by historian David Sturdy, don't expect the peasants to feel much loyalty to the land or country - they obey their local noble, and the king just in case, but apart from that they'll focus on defending their heimat - mostly their village and some lands around it, and if dragged into a bigger conflict by their liege (whether on the orders of the king or because of some dick-measuring contest against the neighboring noble), they'll be fairly confused about the whole thing. Forget the enthusiastic cries of "For Temeria!" from The Witcher 3 and other nonsense like that. They're more likely to raise torches and pitchforks against unjust taxes and services forced on them.

Guards! Guards! ...Guards?

While the concept of a Guild of Thieves as some kind of organized crime in the fantasy city of your choice is farfetched, don't expect any serious police force either. The city guard was usually tasked with manning the city gates and towers, also for fire watch duties, and, as I read in a book fragment helpfully photographed by @jurian-is-cinnamon-roll, the enforcement of some decency laws fell directly on the local executioner - for example, a too deep cleavage could get you a whipping. The judiciary role was fulfilled mostly by the city's government (unless some Serious Shit happened, as that required the appeal to the next instance higher up) and, unsurprisingly, the guards were often used as the Group In Charge's personal enforcers as well, meaning they were widely disliked and corrupt as fuck. So, getting caught by the onlookers and dragged to the nearest guard in the name of public safety was as or even more likely than being seized by the conveniently close patrol.

Another very important issue related to the city guards is that there was no municipal lighting to speak of - as in, no street lights, meaning that after sunset, the whole city was pitch-ass dark and you had to bring your own lamps and/or hire servants (called link-boys) to do it for you. And even then, with understaffed and corrupt city guard, you risked getting robbed by gangs of thugs.

Out of the cities, it was even worse: with the traffic few and far between, because not really that many goods had to be shipped long way away, there was nobody to come to your aid on the long stretches of roads, particularly through uninhabited terrain like all the vast woodlands or bare, rocky areas. Typical robbers weren't the Merry Men of Sherwood, but brutal thugs if not outright homicidal maniacs. Sometimes even minor nobles, particularly in German states, supplemented the income from their fiefs by ambushing trade caravans, at least until they became too much of a nuisance and had, for a lack of a better word, a posse sent after them. Then, there were pirates - while a lot of the current pop culture focuses on the late 17th-early 18th "Golden Age of Piracy" on the Atlantic, there are also the earlier North Sea pirates preying on the Hanseatic ships in the 14th century and Barbary Pirates operating on the Mediterranean Sea for over a millenium - from the 8th to the 19th century.

Million Ways to Die in the Medieval Times, A Lot of Them Embarrassing

I once said jokingly that “in Bismarck’s time, they made a lot of babies in the countryside because they wore out quickly”, a reference to many infant and child deaths that unsurprisingly skewed the statistics and led to the “barely anyone lived past 30 in the Middle Ages” myth. Sure, there’s five centuries between Middle Ages and the Iron Chancellor, but as opposed to other things mentioned before, we had to wait for the important changes in the field of medicine all the way to late 20th century. Here's a page from a 17th century document listing the number of deaths in London, 1632 AD.

So, what was I saying about "making a lot of babies because they wore out quickly"? Over two thousand dead babies that year in London alone, not counting stillborn ones. Almost 1800 cases of tuberculosis, an illness pretty much unheard of in the modern world because we vaccinated the ever-coughing shit out of it. Over a thousand cases of fever, over half a thousand cases of pox and almost as many deaths by the notoriously neglected British teeth (read: abscesses, infections, inflammations, etcetera). In a city of about 250 thousand inhabitants.

Of course, any medical help was entirely private, small-scale and fully paid for by the patient - be it actual physicians, resident or itinerant barbers, herbalists or whoever had any medical knowledge or at least conviction of it. There was also a lot of mad science and outright quackery going on, not to mention treason - I do recall a case where the court physician of a Pomeranian duke was executed because somehow, strangely, the duchess' every pregnancy ended in stillbirth - until it was found out that he conspired with the neighboring state (I can't remember whether it was Denmark or one of the German states that had their distinct identities back then) to prevent the duke from siring a legitimate heir.

There were also no hospitals to speak of - what was called a "hospital" was, in fact, an almshouse - part asylum, part housing for the poor and elderly who had to express their gratitude by praying daily for the almshouse's founder good health and fortune. This also means that monks running those places didn't necessarily have any medical knowledge to speak of.

And since we're at embarrassing deaths, let's go back to the previous sections that regarded justice and law enforcement. You're probably thinking that in the Middle Ages, the lawmakers were going out of their way to have people hanged for just about anything and, well... that's bullshit. Not quite Victorian bullshit, as the stereotypical harsh law dubbed the "Bloody Code" was introduced during the reign of king George III - you know, the crazy one - although it has been entirely the doing of the British parliamentarians taking it out on the poor, as they're wont to do even now. While earlier penal codes like the Holy Roman Empire's Constitutio Criminalis Carolina did warrant the death penalty for grand theft, they also defined fairly high value of the stolen items - if I remember correctly, one golden ducat. The Bloody Code, however, aimed at a value about twenty times lower, and that would be 12 pence, or one shilling. Even with over two centuries of gradual depreciation of coin, that value was bubkes, and so the juries often undervalued the stolen goods, as not to hang everyone dragged before the court. For example, a sheep that was worth six shillings could be valued at ten pence, just so the thief could be hauled off to Australia instead and get pressed to work there. And while I know that other Tumblr users know the subject better than me, I learned long ago that being hanged was indeed embarrassing, certainly much more than having your head chopped off in public.

But, a lot of punishments weren't meant to be an embarrassing death or even maiming - if you ever saw the device known as the stocks, that one was meant mostly for embarrassment. Not only you had to be locked in them for several days, but also everyone around knew you and could give you a couple of harsh words or rotten produce. So your reputation was most probably dragged through the worst kind of shit by that, and if you kept going at it, you could be chased out of the area with the promise of a very embarrassing death if you returned, or just skip that and die a very embarrassing death. There were also other creative devices that made your life hard and made you look stupid, but I think I should leave that for some other time.

Mostly Rural and All-Natural

Now, let's focus on the post that started it all: the food. The Victorian age is well past the time when the majority of people started moving to cities, meaning that a lot of stuff had price tags and not many people could actually grow their own food. The Middle Ages, well, they were mostly rural and all-natural, like the title of this section says. This meant that, as the post about the food mentioned, people not only had a well-rounded diet that included eggs, milk and cheese, but also a large variety of vegetables and herbs, plus a lot of stuff found or caught in the wild - now, while venison and boar were the meat of kings and you would be royally fucked up for poaching those, nobody was particularly bothered about hares, for example. Also, when it came to clothing, homespun wool and linen were common materials and they could be dyed using various plants growing in the wild. The little display I linked should give you an idea of what was possible - and what, unsurprisingly, people refuse to acknowledge due to historical misconceptions.

This, of course, doesn't cover a lot of sumptuary laws that were common through history (and moreso in the Far East, particularly Japan). For example, the Ancient Romans had strict regulations as to who was allowed to wear silk clothing and clothing that was dyed purple, and multiple sumptuary laws in medieval Europe regulated the permission to wear certain furs, most importantly ermine that is now archetypical of royalty, and the amount of precious metals. So don't be surprised at the story I mentioned in the post about medieval executioners: I'm guessing that sumptuary laws were the reason why the infamously flamboyant clothes of a corrupt guildmaster were off-limits to the executioner who would be permitted to take them otherwise.

And Then What?

Okay, let's finish this. What's the deal with "boringly efficient" of the title? Well, for starters: the urbanization, industrialization and flight to cities that led to the simplification and unification of clothing, food etc. through large-scale production. That moved the burden of making clothes or growing food from single families to large enterprises, but also changed the whole structure of people's diets due to logistics. Our vegetables aren't the medieval vegetables, our dairy is not the medieval dairy and most importantly, our meat isn't the medieval meat, for better (no parasites like tapeworms) or worse (being pumped full of veterinary medicine, water and salts, for example). We also have access to incomparably more fabrics and dyes due to the progress of chemistry and textile industry. But still, those things are produced elsewhere, by someone else, and most of us just have to buy the same standard stuff from the store instead of creating bespoke outfits or at least hiring someone skilled to do it. Boring, right?

While luxury imports were well known since the ancient times, the formation of trading companies that at one point could rival governments and noble houses in their power did increase the range and volume of imports, and colonization of far-off regions also added a thing or two to that. And with the increase of volume, the prices tend to drop, so a lot of extraordinary stuff like all the exotic spices, now being grown in large-scale plantations, became boring. I mean, I can have cinnamon any day now - a lot of medieval nobles would die of bloody flux at the sight of such impertinent flamboyance.

Then, there's politics and sociology running forward full-blast ever since the late 18th century. The Enlightenment redefined a lot of fundamentals, like the concept of a nation divorced (or sometimes widowed) from the reigning monarch and his lineage. The necessity to include first the bourgeoisie and later even the peasants' representation in the government also required surveillance and maintaining order among them instead of just, well, keeping them around and sending the troops to beat the shit out of them if they became unruly. Hence the development of modern police forces, intelligence agencies and, on the other hand, social services to make sure the poor aren't wallowing in desperation and lawlessness (mostly). So most of the time, everything is peaceful and boring. Of course, there's still exploitation going on, but fortunately nowhere near the scale that caused large-scale uprisings in the medieval times (unless some government spectacularly fucks up and causes nationwide riots, which happened even in post-WW2 Europe) - mostly because of the necessity of representation I mentioned above.

Also, governments need people alive and working to pay taxes and, sometimes, wage wars. So they can't just ignore epidemics, dishonest food companies causing mass food poisoning by cutting costs, etcetera. Hence the rapid progress of medicine and incomparably more chill approach to law and its enforcement (mostly). Hard to believe the Medieval times were way crazier, right?

#history #History was written by the Victorians #Mike's Musings #TLDR #long reads #long post #LONGPOST IS LOOONG

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alwayzraven · 1 year ago

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Heya, long-time lurker, first-time poster! 😊

I just wanted to thank you so much for your amazing, gorgeous gifs and the detailed AyBer episode recaps, which were highly needed when the show was causing me a lot of heartache!

Two things:

1. I genuinely am starting to think these kids are never going to leave Ataman College and that this entire season might be their final semester in high school before they should go to university. Which maybe is why Onur left the show completely!

2. Can we please please please for the love of God, talk about how Berk’s voice softens after yelling at Aybike to tell him what’s wrong? Like the second time when he asked her, his tone literally changed because he cannot be angry with for that long!

Ahh, it killed me! Somebody help me! 😭

Hiiii !! Thank you for your sweet msg 🥺❤️

I really hope they are not going to spend the whole season in Ataman school, that would SUCK 😭 Since the start of the season, they keep mentioning that they are almost done with high school and they need to prepare for uni entrance exam, so I ma hoping we're gonna be done with high school by mid season. I can't take another season of this show 😩

I also noticed that! When she screamed, he screamed back but then his voice softened really quickly 🥺 I am still not over that scene! They have the best break up scenes 😭

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itsjustbasketball · 6 months ago

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The Times They Are A- Changin'

Any basketball fan in the Uber Arena last night, without any allegiance to Real Madrid or unbridled by any previous animosity toward a team or a coach, would have cheered for Panathinaikos. Such was the power of collective joy... It was a beautiful celebration of the game.

Real Madrid showed flashes of its brilliance early on. But Panathinaikos was able to ride the Real Madrid wave, and surfed up to the shore in the second half gloriously. When Real Madrid started missing the shots they were supposed to make, the feel of the game changed, and the light at the end of the tunnel was apparent for all to see. PAO did not take their eyes off it even for a second... The Nunn dunk at the end of the game was a brilliant piece of improv, channeling all the energy and feeling in the arena in a genius stroke....

Watching PAO dismantle a completely different team in a surprisingly similar manner helps with perspective. And inevitably gets one thinking about coaching. Sometimes it is difficult to assess causality on the court, and dismantle what your team didn't do from what the opposition did. And in the heat of the game, like searching for your keys under a street light, one tries to make sense of the game just by looking at the players. And PAO players were brilliant. Lessort was a joy to watch, and I still cannot get over the possession where Grant denied Tavares the ball out of sheer will power under the paint. Sloukas had a game worthy of his name. But these kind of games are for a coach to win or lose. And Ergin Ataman won both games convincingly. Although some FB fans will need some time to process it, this is a big moment for Turkish basketball. And we were happy to be there to witness it.

They have to scratch the third place game. It is a most futile, meaningless endeavor that seems to serve no particular purpose. Players don't want to play it, fans don't want to watch it. What it was good for was some photo ops with couple of Euroleague greats from back when, that the brother was delighted with (İbrahim Kutluay has such an uncanny ability to fake a happy smile, it is scary). Watched the game, we did. It was such a painful experience overall though we were somewhat relieved when it did not go to OT, go figure.

Happy to see Scottie bounce back. We love Scottie, his heart is always in it -9 or 24. And Nick was joyful to watch. Was it his last game in a FB jersey? Looks like it, that will be a big hole to fill, and I am not talking about the stats, things started to fall into place this season as he grew into the leadership role the team desperately needed. He delivered whatever was asked of him, and what he saw to be lacking... Hope he stays, and don't get me started on the salaries, just don't. But hey, how far can you go with Calathes as your tough guy. There is a reason I have been having Charles Oakley flashbacks the last couple of days.

It looks like Poirier is coming to town, I am pretty happy about it, he felt out of place in that playful Madrid roster. Hope he brings some of that angst he was feeling in the final with him. We all desperately need it.

#basketball #euroleague #final four #fenerbahce basketball #panathinaikos

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northernolddragon · 2 years ago

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maybe the creators wanted to do the same thing with Syanna as with Olgierd. at the beginning our ataman is a son of a bitch but over time we get to know his story, we feel sorry for him and we save him. syanna is a revenge-seeking fallen princess who thinks her sister has betrayed her (this is the most important point in all of this) when Geralt travels with her through the land of fairy tales, he learns her story and it turns out that there is a small misunderstanding between the sisters, so the player should want to reconcile them. and it's a big smelly shit. all the blame is put on Dettlaff who was just a tool (let's put a knife in prison the victim bled out because of it) that's why I don't like this ending very much. it's really a shame that cdpr promotes such a thing. the moral of this is that you can commit the worst crime, set beast on people and if you have connections you can get away with it.

There should be ending where both sisters się and dettlaff alive. Weird that Geralt didnt ask the unseen elder just to stop Dettlaff.

Oh, I didn't think about those parallels. Interesting thoughts, dear anonymous! Syanna, to some extent, evokes sympathy, one can really sympathize with her, remembering her revelations to Geralt in the Land of Fairy Tales. In the same magical world, there is also a reference to Blaviken, just a mention, why, sometimes, you think that Syanna is the same Renfri. It becomes a pity for her after the story, which is so reminiscent of the story of the robber from Blaviken. Only this does not negate her cruelty to Dettlaff. Her calculation, about his naivety and feelings for her. Her reprisal against the knights guilty of 'persecution'. And unfulfilled revenge on my sister.

Olgierd had a slightly different situation, since Mr. Mirror deceived him, taking advantage of his despair. Or rather, he didn’t even deceive, he skillfully manipulated at the moment when Olgerd was most susceptible to influence. He later tried to return the opportunity to break the contract - as we know, he did not succeed. The terms of the contract had to be respected. Syanna, on the other hand, acted of her own free will and did not at all regret what she had done. Instead of Gaunter, she had the Black Sun. And she believed that since they had made a monster out of her, they should not be disappointed. Although I think she might have veered off that path, like Regis, who curbed the bloodlust. With Geralt, a conversation started about the possibilities of choice. She chose the worst. Which is extremely sad.

I guess the Unseen Elder didn't intervene, as he has little interest in the outside world. He only helped in one of the endings to summon Dettlaff (he killed Geralt twice because I asked more questions than I needed xd) . This being is indifferent to humanity. And she would intervene if something really serious happened, threatening the code of vampires and their rules. Recall the story of Khagmar. If I remember correctly, Regis mentioned, that the Unseen Elder were involved in the execution of the judgment. Having unlimited possibilities and power, they remain completely neutral until the moment of resonance in the world of relative. Probably, what Dettlaff didn't fit into this category. It seems to me that for such an ancient being, Dettlaff's emotions were a childish prank.

The best outcome would be, that the end of the storyline was accompanied, of course, by the reunion of the sisters, a celebration in honor of this event and the help of Geralt along with Regis, and the living and invisible Dettlaff. I don't blame the developers for recreating the realities of life, where having a title and a connection with a high-ranking rank can escape punishment worthy of punishment (not necessarily death), otherwise an innocent creature, who was taken advantage of will be in a bad position and with a complete list accusations. The same injustice, that often prevails. Made endings without 'happily ever after'. Because Toussaint is still not such a fairy tale.

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turqlands · 2 years ago

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Olmasaydı, Keşke... Ambara Hırsız, Gitmeseydi !

Nasip PAMUK ✍🏻

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theophan-o · 1 year ago

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The brave Cossack Ataman and his faithful horse.

Who would try to draw them like that? I'm going to one day (after improving myself in drawing horses).

From my old collection of press cuttings/photographs from the Polish Press (1997–1999). It is a fan account. I don’t benefit from it. Copyright belongs to the Photographer.

#jurko bohun #damar #ogniem i mieczem #with fire and sword #trylogia #henryk sienkiewicz #jerzy hoffman #polish literature #polish film #trylogiarchive #trylogia sensem życia

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aoawarfare · 1 year ago

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The Struggle for Kazakh Autonomy in 1919

Last time we were with the Alash Orda, they were in Siberia, fighting alongside the White Siberian forces against the Bolsheviks. Supporters of Admiral Kolchak launched a coup and named him Supreme Commander of all White Forces. Kolchak dismantled all non-white sanctioned governments including the Alash Orda. This may not have been such a problem if the Alash Orda hadn’t burnt its bridge with the Bolsheviks. Oops.

It’s now 1919 and Kolchak is planning a new offensive.

The Unraveling of Kolchak

When Kolchak took over, his staff was optimistic that they would easily defeat the Bolsheviks, and at first it looked like they were right? Kolchak launched his spring offensive in March 1919 and despite not properly coordinating his offensive with Denikin’s forces in the south, he enjoyed considerable success.

Admiral Kolchak

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His battle plan was to launch an assault along his entire front with forces concentrated on the center through Ufa toward the middle of the Volga with a direct route to the Moscow. His forces considered of three armies: Gajda’s Siberian army of 45,000 men plus the Siberian Flotilla, General Khanzhin’s Western Army of 42,000 men, and the Dutov’s Orenburg and Urals forces consisting of 20,000 Cossacks.

He was facing the 2nd, 5th, 1st, and 4th armies consisting of 120,000 men plus the Volga-Kama military flotilla. Additionally, the Red Armies were able to receive reinforcements and supplies easier and faster than the White Armies.

Kolchak’s opening offensive pushed the Red armies to the Volga and Orenburg, but ran into supply and communication issues with the spring thaw. Additionally, their forces were spread across a 180,000 square mile territory that they now had to manage. The Red Armies received reinforcements in April and launched a new offensive in May. General Mikhail Frunze took advance of the White overreach and attacked the Western army, pushing it back to Ufa and exposing the Siberian Army’s flank. Frunze pushed his advantage and by Kolchak’s forces had been pushed beyond their point of departure by July.

The intrigue going on within Kolchak’s staff is beyond this podcast, but these defeats were made worse by a revolving door of generals and staff members plus mass desertion within the ranks. Kolchak reorganized his army in mid-summer and tried to engulf the Red army in a pincer move, but it failed because of poor coordination. This defeat was the final nail in the coffin for the allies who convinced Kolchak to be a lost cause. Despite this, Kolchak launched another failed offense in September.

By November Kolchak lost his headquarters in Omsk and was completely cut off from the Urals and Orenburg (where most of the Alash Orda were). Hundreds of men and generals fled, some heading towards the Caspian and then Persia and others fleeing towards Semirech’e and then Xinjiang. Those who remained with Kolchak undertook the Great Siberian Ice March heading towards Chita to unite with the Far Eastern (White) Army led by Ataman Semenov, who was known to be a tyrant and brute but supported by the Japanese. Those who disapproved of Semenov went into Manchuria. They used the Trans-Siberian Railroad as a guide, but were sometimes denied the use of the railroad by the Czechoslovak Legion. Again, this march is beyond this podcast, but as one can imagine, it was a nightmare for anyone who took part as they had to deal with Siberian winter, lack of supplies, and Red forces and various insurgents snapping at their heels. And they also had to cross the frozen Lake Baikal in sub-zero temperatures. Not fun.

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Kolchak, himself, stepped down from command on January 4th, 1920, giving command of South Russia to General Denikin and command of the Far East to Ataman Semenov. He was promised safe passage to the British military mission in Irkutsk, but was betrayed to the Bolsheviks by the Czech Legion. He was executed by a Cheka (precursor to the KGB) firing squad on the morning of Feb 7th, 1920, and dumped into the frozen Angara River.

Up a Creek Without a Paddle

Where did this leave the Alash Orda? Well, they were up a creek without a paddle.

The Alash Orda rejected the Bolshevik overtures in 1918 because they refused to recognize Alash Autonomy and here they were, not even a year later, supporting an ally that just dissolved their own government. There were different opinions on what to do next. Some, like Baitursynov, traveled to Moscow to meet with Lenin and joined the Kirghiz Military-Revolutionary Committee with Stalin writing:

“I did not and do not consider him a revolutionary-communist or a sympathizer; nevertheless, his presence in the Revolutionary committee is necessary” - Dina A. Amanzholova, Kazakh Autonomy and Russia: the History of the Alash Movement, pg. 90

Others, like Bukeikhanov, stuck with the White Army, writing in February 1919 expressing a desire:

"of the Kirghiz, together with the valiant Siberian troops, to wage battle with the Bolsheviks, from whom the Kirghiz population suffered greatly in Semirech’e Oblast being completely destroyed by them.” He argued that the Kazakhs were “completely reliable, hardy material for the army, unsusceptible to the Bolshevik infection” - Dina A. Amanzholova, Kazakh Autonomy and Russia: the History of the Alash Movement, pg. 68

He went ahead and formed cavalry units of Kazakh soldiers, similar to the Cossacks, who answered to Russian and Kazakh cadres. These soldiers would take part in all of Kolchak’s offenses in the Urals and were even praised for their efforts, one White officer writing:

“Dressed in our uniforms, with an orderly line of .375-caliber rifles thrown over their shoulder, in proper files they move, as if on parade, and give the impression of a genuine dashing cavalry.” - Dina A. Amanzholova, Kazakh Autonomy and Russia: the History of the Alash Movement, pg. 70

They were involved with some of the few victories the White Army experience during the summer such as the taking of the small Cherkasskoe garrison in August, but they could not stem the Red tide.

Instead, Kazakh forces in the Urals reached out the Red First Army in November, offering their services against the White Army. The Bolsheviks sensed an opportunity since the soldiers themselves “had no desire to bear the material and personal sacrifices, either for White Generals or for the Alash Orda leaders from the Kirghiz.” - Dina A. Amanzholova, Kazakh Autonomy and Russia: the History of the Alash Movement, pg. 50

From November 1919 onward, the Alash Orda army units in the Urals pursued a policy that “consisted on the one hand of formal agreements on paper with the Cossacks and on the other in showing them as much passive resistance as was feasible” - (Dina A. Amanzholova, Kazakh Autonomy and Russia: the History of the Alash Movement, pg. 51). They offered to supply information and to support offensives against the White army. They wrote:

“The rapid destruction of the Urals front, in addition to liberating the Kirghiz from the violence of the Cossacks, has the vital significance that it opens up access to oil fields and therefore oil products, for which there is acute need in Soviet Russia. The liquidation of the Urals front, in addition, liberates the Astrakhan group, currently surrounded by the foe of all sides.” - Dina A. Amanzholova, Kazakh Autonomy and Russia: the History of the Alash Movement, pg. 53

The Red army, wanting to avoid violence at all costs, but wanted to neutralize all threatens in the region-even indigenous ones-demanded the:

“complete and total surrender of all weapons and other military property ought to be categorically demanded and, in the event of the surrender, must be immediately directed to the Dzhurun station for subsequent headquarters turnover.” - Dina A. Amanzholova, Kazakh Autonomy and Russia: the History of the Alash Movement, pg. 52

The Soviets wanted the Alash Orda to march their forces to the city of Uil and surrender there. The Alash refused since that march would leave their forces exposed to White retaliation. They wrote back:

“…the Urals front is not yet liquidated, and dozens of Kirghiz volosts still remain in the region of deployment of the Cossack troops. The Cossacks, embittered by our coming out on the side of Soviet power, have already begun to butcher our peaceful population. In addition to the southern volosts remaining within the confines of the deployment of Cossack units, as we have today received reliable information, individual Cossack detachments are lurking in the rear among us, perpetrating indescribable violence…We would consider it a crime to leave the population to the mercy of fate at such a moment and to set out with military units to Uil. We began and will continue the struggle against the Cossacks right on up until our oblast is finally cleansed of them. Upon finishing this operation, we can travel anywhere at all. We earnestly ask you to take all subsequent measures toward the most rapid liquidation of the Urals front…We likewise ask that the trophies acquired exclusively by the labors of our units be placed at the disposal of the Kirghiz revolutionary committee of Orenburg as items necessary for the Red Units formed.” - Dina A. Amanzholova, Kazakh Autonomy and Russia: the History of the Alash Movement, pg. 63

Frunze left the negotiations to the First Army, but provided a general program on how the surrender should be handled.

“In view of the intention expressed by the Western Sections of the Kirghiz government “Alash Orda” to surrender to the mercy and will of the Soviet government with all stocks of weapons and military supplies I order:

First. The Revolutionary council of the first or fourth army is to take on the leadership of the negotiations, depending on the location of detachments of Alash-Orda and their delegates Second. In the basis of the negotiations are to be laid (1) the Decree of the Council of People’s Commissars on the Urals Cossacks of 7 December (2) Order of the Turkestan Front to the Urals Cossacks of 9 December and the Order of the Turkestan Front to the Orenberg Cossacks. Third. Negotiations are not to be dragged out, having appointed the shortest period possible for the surrender. Fourth. The dzhigits, upon disarmament, are to be deployed in the nearest army rear, subjects to political processing, and subsequently used in the capacity of reinforcements for troops active in the region of the Kirghiz Steppes initially only in detachments of auxiliary designation Fifth. Members of the government and command team are to be deployed in Ural’sk or Orenburg environs to isolate communication with the Kirghiz Steppe Sixth. The Right is to be given to elect a delegation composed of no more than five people for a journey to staff headquarters, and subsequently to Moscow. Seventh. Observance of the precise fulfillment of all of our terms of surrender” - Dina A. Amanzholova, Kazakh Autonomy and Russia: the History of the Alash Movement, pg. 55

Frunze reported to Lenin on the same day, “the military significance of Alash-Orda is insignificant, but politically and economically their surrender is important, securing for us the entire steppe region to the shores of the Caspian” - (Dina A. Amanzholova, Kazakh Autonomy and Russia: the History of the Alash Movement, pg. 55)

The Alash Orda rejected these demands, writing back:

“We believe that friends should meet one another with a salute, and not with the somber image…of the weak one bowing his head before the strong one. True democrats cannot and should not allow and permit themselves to humiliate others. If you nourish distrust toward us, we will prove to you the sincerity of our declaration in our actions, participating together with you in active struggle with common enemies-the Cossacks. For our population, the quickest possible expulsion of the Cossacks from the Kirghiz territories is of unquestionable and pressing interest, because every extra day that they stay here causes the population incalculable harm…After a brief welcome, your leaders will pass through the front of our troops, exchanging greetings with them, and we will pass through yours; after this unification from each side, two rank-and-file soldiers will move towards one another and greet and embrace one another, after which we can bring the units closer together and put them into whatever formation will be convenient, say a brief welcome, after which the troops will go wherever necessary…it would be appropriate to organize more ceremonially to make an impression on the morale of the population and of the fighters themselves. We await your help as soon as possible.” - Dina A. Amanzholova, Kazakh Autonomy and Russia: the History of the Alash Movement, pg. 56

Frunze wasn’t having any of it. He wrote back to the First Army:

“First. It is permitted, in conformity with the situation, not to insist on the immediate directing of all members of the Alash Orda government and of the command to Orenburg, having taken these several of the most authoritative persons only for communications and as hostages. Second. It is permitted to use immediately armed units of Alash Orda, having transformed them at your discretion and having secured hostages in the event of treachery. Third. Use the existing situation for the quickest possible fulfillment of this task of taking control of the oil fields region and cutting off paths of retreat to the East of the foe’s Ural Army units. Fourth. Impose as a duty on the former Kirghiz government the immediate formation in the region of Uil foodstuffs bases of transport necessary for the movement of units” - Dina A. Amanzholova, Kazakh Autonomy and Russia: the History of the Alash Movement, pg. 59

Back in Semipalatinsk, the Alash Orda faced pressure from local non-Alash allied organizations and movements to ally with the Bolshevik to remain relevant. Frunze added to that pressure by taking Semipalatinsk on December 1st after the local organizations led a local uprising.

On December 21st, the Alash Orda published an official decree:

“In view of the fact that the rights of the peoples of Russia are most fully ensured by Soviet power, that the well-known declaration of the rights of peoples issued by the Council for People’s Commissars has been implemented with respect to many of the peoples of Soviet Russia and has been confirmed once again during the entry of Soviet troops onto the territory of Siberia in the Declaration of the chairmen of the Central Committee, the Council of People’s Commissars, the Oblast committee of Alash Orda resolves:

(1) to support Soviet power with all means and efforts, bearing freedom, equality, brotherhood, and light into all the unfortunate dark corners of many-language Russia, to welcome the appearance on Alash territory (the Kirghiz autonomy) of Soviet troops, as liberators from the tyranny of the reaction monarchistic dictatorship." - Dina A. Amanzholova, Kazakh Autonomy and Russia: the History of the Alash Movement, pg. 74

By end of December the Bolsheviks informed the Alash Orda that their proposal was unacceptable rejected and that:

“We do not know and do not recognize any Alash Orda government whatsoever and cannot enter into treaty agreements with them as such…the government is to be dissolved. The decree on amnesty remains in full force.” - Dina A. Amanzholova, Kazakh Autonomy and Russia: the History of the Alash Movement, pg. 60

The Alash Orda held on hope that by demonstrating their value as military allies, they could remain political equals. So, on December 27th, the Alash Orda launched an attack against Kyzyl-Kuga, capturing it and the Iletsk Corps staff HQ. The Cossacks tried to liberate Kyzyl-Kuga but were repulsed. The Alash Orda took prisoner the entire corps staff HQ, 500 Cossacks and officers, one artillery piece, fifteen machine guns, and many rifles. The First Army sent a reconnaissance detachment to Kyzyl-Kuga on December 29th. The Alash Orda sent word of their victory to the Bolsheviks on January 5th, 1920, claiming that “In such a manner, having participated actively in the struggle with the enemies of Soviet power in fact.” They argued that a merger of forces was natural “for in one krai, there cannot be two masters” (Dina A. Amanzholova, Kazakh Autonomy and Russia: the History of the Alash Movement, pg. 62)

The problem was the Bolsheviks didn’t know what to do with the Alash Orda. On the one hand they were local intelligentsia who could be put to good use in furthering the Bolshevik cause but on the other hand they were a nationalistic political movement that created its own government, rebuffed the Bolsheviks, and allied themselves with the White. In January, the Alash Orda and Bolsheviks met and agreed that until an All-Kirghiz Council could be convened to determine the future of the Kazakh people, the government of the Steppe would fall to the Revolutionary-Military Committee, which contains members of the Alash Orda such as Baitursynov and the military units would merge with the Third Tatar Strelets Regiment. On January 21st this agreement was issued in a formal declaration:

“…only one resolution is possible. Until the All-Kirghiz Congress, to be convened this June and being the only body that can elect a lawful Soviet government of all of Kirghizia, the Kirghiz oblasts shall be administered by a Military Revolutionary Committee appointed by the Council of People’s Commissars of the RSFSR. For this reason, a merger of Alash Orda with the Revolutionary Committee is possible only when the Council of Peoples’ Commissars includes certain Alash Orda members in the composition of the Military-Revolutionary Committee of Kirghizia.” - Dina A. Amanzholova, Kazakh Autonomy and Russia: the History of the Alash Movement, pg. 65

And yet the Military-Revolutionary Committee decided not to appoint Alash Orda members to the committee because of their bourgeois backgrounds and distrust and dislike from other soviet Kazakhs. Instead, a commission was created to deal with property and trophies and by the spring and summer of 1920, the property, arms, and units of the Alash Orda were transferred into the disposition of the Kirghiz Military-revolutionary committee and army.

In February 1920, they arrested several Alash Orda members, sparking outrage from 800,000 people of the Kazakh oblast, the Kirghiz Revolutionary Committee, and the chair of the Bashkir Military-Revolutionary Committee, Z. Validov, who went all the way to Stalin and Lenin, begging them to issue a clear decree on the fates of the Alash Orda.

On March 9th, 1920, the Kirghiz Military-Revolutionary Committee issued the following statement:

“1. Alash Orda calling itself a government, and the zemstvo institutions subordinated to it, shall be liquidated as not being prescribed by the Constitution of the RSFSR. All laws, instructions, and orders issued by it during its existence shall be considered invalid. All property and currency, arms, military munitions and equipment shall be subject to transfer to the corresponding commissariats and departments of the krai, oblast, and uezd revolutionary committees by ownership.

All employees shall fall under disposition of the corresponding commissariats and mobilized by their specialization and shall be maintained on special account of the commissariat of internal affairs.

2. The Spiritual Administration existing in Ural’sk Oblast (the Commission for the administration of spiritual affairs attached to the Western section of Alash Orda) with all subordinated spiritual bodies shall be eliminated, the files and property transferred to the jurisdiction of the suitable uezd and volost soviets. Moreover, spiritual authorities selected by their respective societies shall be prohibited from fulfilling religious needs of the citizens” - Dina A. Amanzholova, Kazakh Autonomy and Russia: the History of the Alash Movement, pg. 78

By the end of March, former members of the Alash Orda were no longer persecuted, but, except for a handful such as Baitursynov, could not participate in government work. Frunze defeated the White Army in March and rehabilitated the Kazakhs and Cossacks who once fought for the Whites. In late spring of 1920, the restrictions against the former Alash Orda members were lifted and some were allowed to work in different government bodies.

The Alash Orda started 1919 allied with a monarchist movement that refused to acknowledge their right to autonomous government. They started 1920 with their government disbanded and all power in the hands of the Bolshevik government. And yet, they held out hope that they could work with the Bolsheviks to enact their reforms.

References

Central Asia: a New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present by Adeeb Khalid

Kazakh Autonomy and Russia: the History of the Alash Movement by Dina A. Amanzholova

The “Russian” Civil Wars: 1916-1916 by Jonathan D. Smele

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"You had your two wishes of me today. One is left,"

#fallesto #lullaby of woe (ladysunbite rp answers)#// out of the 3 of them i am mostly worried about the house at this point :D

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You got a sexy songs playlist? If yes would you care to share?

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