this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
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Fake History Porn

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Welcome to /c/[email protected] , where fake history is made. Find a historically significant photo, come up with a fake history title, post it, laugh.

The name is a reference to the fact that the pictures should be worth marveling at. This is NOT a place for hardcore pornography. Tasteful nudity is fine as long as it fits within the context of the post (please mark it as NSFW).

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I really like the myth that Ronnie destroyed the Soviet Union, like Lech Wałęsa And the freaking Pope didn't exist.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

I love that Republicans keep trying to get a statue of Reagan in Berlin but no one gives a shit about the “Mr. Gorbechov, Tear down this wall!” speech, which was in English and really aimed at U.S. viewers.

Germany always politely declined to put a statue up for some minor speech so Trump, in his tackiness, put a statue at the US Embassy. Angela Merkel responded by thanking George HW Bush for supporting reunification.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeltsin was the assassin that illegally dissolved the USSR though. What did the pope do to the USSR? Tell Gorbachev that god hates him?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

John Paul II, the Polish Pope, visited Poland in 1979. It was the first papal visited in the Soviet Union and ended up igniting a workers revolution for independence which inturn broke up the Soviet block.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Oh heck, didn't know the papal visit helped spark that! Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Edgelords gonna be edgy