What was his motive to put the USSR onto a new political path? And what did it mean for the Soviet Union?

As in, why was the British Empire able to become such a huge thing? I understand that they gained a huge naval advantage, but why? Britain is hardly a big country, and doesnt seem to have any other advantages by default, over other nations.

Also, on an only slightly related note, were British land forces better / good in any way? Or was it simply the naval superiority?

I was always taught growing up Catholic that church doctrine is constant and can never change, but where did this doctrine itself come from? Most other Christian churches I'm aware of allow more liberal development of doctrine, but for Catholics (and I suppose Orthodox), once something is dogmatically defined it is final. This idea doesn't seem to have come directly from Jesus either since it's not in the Gospels, so what is its origin?

Due to the separation of sexes and malnutrition there were no pregnancies or children at the camp. There was a popular question posted recently about a woman that performed abortions in concentration camps, but those could have happened before they arrived.

*Also, I mean childbirths where conception happened in the camp.

An antipode is the opposite of a certain point on a globe, such that if you tunneled straight down into the Earth from where you're sitting the point at which you emerged would be the anitpode. In this scenario you could start in country X, drill straight through the Earth, and come out into country X again.

I couldn't find anything so I figured this would be a good sub to ask. I'm currently reading A Synopsis of Byzantine History and really want to look at the images as I read it. Is there anywhere where I can find all of the images? Everything I've seen seems to have some of them but not all of them

Also do you know what one thing about the other, Lauri and Simo not the soviets and finns. Thank you

I'm looking for information about everything between the first settlements under Louis the German all the way to 1945

Just 200 years ago, whale oil was a huge industry, i imagine that thousands of whales died during the time, do we have any exact figures as to how many?

And are current whale numbers back to as they once were?

So I'm reading Antony Beevor's The Second World War (great read btw) and he absolutely rips into Freyburg, Creforce's commander. He basically states that he completely ignored ULTRA intercepts and was obsessed with an impossible seaborne invading whilst also not communicating with his subordinates.

Is this a fair assessment or is Beevor ignoring things? From the half chapter on Crete Beevor very heavily implies the island should have been easily held with the loss of most of the German paracorps if not for the incompetence of Freyburg.

I have read about white company, Which was led by an Englishman for part of its time, and included some English longbowmen, but was made up of multiple different nations.

Im starting to do research on fascist violence in the 1930s, but I have so far only found one book of interest "Violence under the swastika." Does anyone have a suggestion?

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Popular history suggests the wall served as a line marking the end of the Roman controlled world, the Limes Britannicus, beyond which the barbarians reign.

The wall is roughly 80 miles long, and surviving portions are not that tall. Walking on the wall I wondered if this functioned more as a symbolic boundary of empire, or if the wall provided an easy means to control trade/immigration.

How did Hadrian's Wall (or the Antonine Wall) influence the negotiation of the northern frontier in Roman Britain?

Edit: I should clarify that I'm referring to sub-Saharan Africans that were visiting the US.

As some of you may know, Romance of Three Kingdoms/Sangokushi is very popular in Japan and there are plenty of comics,video games,film..etc that are based on(or loosely based) on the novel. My question is how did it become such a staple of Japanese culture over other popular Chinese novels/myths/legends?

Growing up in Japan, I am aware that the series of video games Koei made were very popular in Japan during the 80-90's. I also remember that Yokoyama Mitsuteru's manga's were popular in the 70'-80's and I am also aware that Yoshikawa Eiji's novels(written during 1939-1943), were very influential too. I would like to know more about what happened between Eiji's novel to the manga/video adaptation in the 70-80s that made Romance of Three Kingdom so popular in Japan. I'd also like to know if there are other works written before Yoshikawa Eiji's adaptation that are influential and may have strong impact on the way Japanese people see ROTK now.

I apologize if I'm posting this in the wrong subreddit, but I am looking to learn more about ancient Rome.

I started reading a lot of books on Mongolian history and I really enjoyed what I learned. I'm looking to expand my study now to Rome. I suppose what I'm looking for is a general history of the empire, rise and fall. But I'm open to other suggestions as well.

Thank you and I look forward to reading your recommendations.

If you guys have any good further reading on the subject for me that would be great as well.

Edit: Sorry to be unclear in the question, but I'd specifically like to know of European examples.