Today:
Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians' Sunday Digest (formerly the Day of Reflection). Nobody can read all the questions and answers that are posted here, so in this thread we invite you to share anything you'd like to highlight from the last week - an interesting discussion, an informative answer, an insightful question that was overlooked, or anything else.
It may have been a "long rambling answer" but /u/shlin28 painted an excellent portrait of a shifting and fractured world in understanding how did Christians react to losing so many followers?
/u/The_Alaskan distilled the key aspects of collective farm life in the post-Stalin period. I'll also second his fascinating playing card answer.
/u/The_Alaskan gave an excellent answer on [Why are soldiers depicted with playing cards belted to their helmets?] (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3z85en/why_are_soldiers_depicted_with_playing_cards/) I'll also take this opportunity to shamelessly plug my own [unanswered question on Hellenistic leagues] (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3yofbw/during_the_hellenistic_period_what_was_the/)
u/nate077 answer on what happened to the jews of minsk?
u/ParkSungJun outstanding answer on Was Hjalmar Schacht as good as he is said to be?
Weekly Rundown:
/u/mbarry829 on "In WW1, how was the unit composition decided?"
/u/celebreth on "Enlistment in the Roman military was 25 years. Was there some way to get out of this in extraordinary circumstances? Such as sole surviving heir to their family's estate." and "How well were gladiators treated in antiquity?"
/u/vertexoflife on "Is it true that privacy is a modern invention?"
/u/CantabKBH wrote an in-depth comment on the Nazi occupation of Denmark