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Bloody April

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Quasi-hiatus. Romanov stuff can be found at imperialphoenix.tumblr.com
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A Finnish soldier wounded by a Soviet sniper smiles for a photograph during the Finnish-Soviet Continuation War. Karelia, 1942.

#continuation war
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hjmarseille

Lothar Von Richthofen shortly after March 13th, 1918 when he Crashed his Fokker Dr I 454/17 and received severe jaw & facial injuries. Because of this wound he was not at the front when Manfred died.

The funny thing about Lothar was that he was shot down 3 times during the war, all on the 13th! Weirdly enough when he died in 1922 it was not on the 13 but the 4th of July…

Source: amazon.com
#Lothar von Richthofen
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vivelareine

Some of the accusations made against Marie Antoinette in the Act of Accusation for her trial, drawn up by Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville:

  • That she drained the French treasury in order to ‘satisfy inordinate pleasures and to pay the agents of her criminal intrigues,’ and that she sent millions to her brothers in Austria.
  • That she organized the ‘orgy of October 1st, 1789,’ and encouraged the soldiers to trample the national cockade and engage in ‘counter-revolutionary excesses.’
  • That she, along with Louis XVI, ordered both counter-revolutionary and anti-monarchy pamphlets to be distributed throughout France in order to instigate foreign powers to go to war with France.
  • That she organized a famine in October 1789 in order to weaken the revolution.
  • That she opened and locked the door of the Tuileries through which she, the king and the royal family passed through during the flight to Montmedy.
  • That she conspired with the marquis de Lafayette to forbid anyone without permission to leave or enter the palace, in order to prevent people from knowing about 'midnight orgies’ against liberty. That she, along with her secret midnight councils, planned and ordered the Champs de Mars massacre.
  • That it was her advice (and that of her Austrian council) which persuaded Louis XVI to use his veto, particularly on the laws regarding priests and emigres.
  • That she plotted 'with her perfidious agents’ the violence on August 10th, 1792, plied the Swiss Guards with drink to keep them 'in a state of drunkenness,’ and personally bit gun cartridges to 'excite those in her interest’ the night of August 9th.
  • That she 'prostituted herself’ with her son, Louis Charles.
#Marie-Antoinette#French Revolution
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Finnish tanks and troop movements during the winter war 1939-40. 

Russian Heavy Artillery firing onto Finnish lines   

#winter war
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