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They were occupied, but had a functioning collaborationist government. Two groups, the Serbian State Guard, and the Serbian Volunteer Corps, also acted as the puppet army serving Milan Nedic, but they were also the military branch of the ZBOR party (yes, Serbia even had a pro-fascist movement...

Speaking of the "red-headed stepchild of Europe", I was watching a video on YouTube called "Serbia's Secret War". From that video, I could list controversies that may or may not be known: 1) Despite suffering a lot from atrocities committed against its people during WWII, Serbia was actually...

Yeah, and those states that are sending their people to Russia would experience a brain drain. You seem to have a complete contempt for Orthodox Christian states.

Seriously!? That's your solution!? Get rid of the more anti-Catholic elements and subsume the moderates into the Catholic system!? Disgusting.

But that would mean most of the Orthodox Balkan states would in turn, be subordinated to Catholic powers indirectly. Hardly a small price to pay though, as it would mean oppression of Orthodox Christians at the hands of Catholics, just decades after being freed from Ottoman Turkish Muslim rule...

That would mean Russia loses whatever is left of their influence in the Balkans. Bulgaria was already lost, Greece is firmly in the Anglo-French bloc, and Romania is a pissed at the Russians because of Bessarabia. Throwing Serbia under the bus would also mean Montenegro would also be lost as...

What bubble? The fact that I’m a former Catholic who has borne a grudge against the institution itself for a variety of reasons, including the increasingly backward thinking that is prompted by the Catholic Church. Granted, their Orthodox counterparts might have the same thinking as well, but at...

But their interactions with Asia might end up becoming more negative. Northeastern Rus had a dreadful experience with Catholic Europe because of the Teutonic Order and its Crusader successors, and the whole episode involving Sigismund III Vasa’s foolhardy attempt to become a Catholic Tsar...

The Mongol occupation of various parts of the former Kievan/Kyivan Rus’, though brutal, did help save the Rus’ statelets from a far worse fate: Catholic tyranny. This was at the height of the Crusades and the fallout of the Fourth Crusade could still be felt today.

Tito did much more to damage Serbia’s territorial integrity than Hitler and Mussolini combined by cleaving off Kosovo and Vojvodina and turning them into autonomous provinces. Also, literally anything to do with the Chetnik movement in general.

Kerensky should have sued for peace with the Central Powers instead of pushing on with the war. That might make him unpopular, but at least it would deny the Bolsheviks a chance to launch their attempted coup.

Chinese. Which explains their whole "Muh 9 dash line!" crap, and the fact that any Chinese military unit stationed at Kalayaan Island could easily strike targets within Manila. My hometown would also be within striking range of Chinese military forces.

Another Philippines related controversial take: - The Philippines is doomed to be a colony of whichever nation wants it. China, Japan, Brunei (the Bolkiahs did rule parts of Luzon, including the city of Manila), Spain, Portugal, Britain, US, Netherlands. Main reason being is that the...

I posted this in the wrong thread by mistake. I'll move it. Deleted the post in question.

Wasn’t Admiral Yi arrested because of court intrigue that was caused by a Japanese double agent? His arrest led to Won Gyun literally fucking up the naval battles. But yeah, before the Japanese colonial period, Hangul was rarely used and the literary elite were writing in Chinese characters.

Another controversial take on history: Korea's modernization could only have happened by being colonized by another foreign power. Before Korea's independence from the Qing Dynasty in the aftermath of the First Sino-Japanese War, they were one of the most loyal tributary states of China, but the...

The US needed a literal Open Back Door access to trade with China. We do have two dates for Independence Day: June 12 (independence from Spain) and July 4 (independence from US) And of course, his dad was an officer during the American colonial period in the Philippines and might have been...

My controversial take on my part of history: the Philippines benefited from European colonialism, only in the fact that at least we wouldn’t have to be culturally tied to China, and at the very least we never became an extension of the entire Austronesian archipelago that embraced Islam. Of...