Je me souviens de pas mal d’auteurs Soviétiques imbitables sur les operations militaires, genre” la 3e division du 2e Corps avance sur [patelin de 1000 habitants] permettant à la 2e division du 3e Corps d’avancer sur [patelin de 700 habitants]” et ça sur des pages et des pages.

* collection massive

Historien seulement le dimanche: De 1967 à 1969, Historia avait publié une collectionmassice sur la 2GM (96 volumes, thématique et chrinologique). Auteurs très divers de chaque volume: journaliste, historien. militaire,… Qualité variable mais c’eat une bonne piste.

Attention: les fosses communes de cette image sont celles des victimes des mains des deux camps (cf source: www.rtve.es/noticias/fos...). L'image a été reprise sans contexte et présentée comme "les fosses communes du Franquisme", mais c'est faux. En revanche, oui, 3x plus de victimes du Franquisme.

Actually if you want to create a podcast/blog with an overarching theme spanning several eras, “the many falls of Rome” would work very well (1 fall/season). It may be stronger than @mikeduncan.bsky.social ‘s “Revolutions” theme and comparable to @digiantiquarian.bsky.social ‘s Worldly Wonders theme

The thread comments also had a lot of people pushing for 1204. There were a few comments also putting it before 476.

When I made the meme above and posted it on Reddit (shorturl.at/9pmSf), I had so many proposals for "Fall of Rome" in comment that I wanted to do a matrix of them on two axis:
- "Ridiculous claim"/"Could hold up in court" axis
- Boring/Fun axis

Romania lives is IMO in the Ridiculous/Fun quadrant😃.

"Oh, you thought Rome fell in 1453/1461? Cute 😏".

My current tactics is to look appropriately jaded when anyone proposes a date and then assert that the Western Roman Empire finally fell with Wales in 1283 after the battle of Orewin Bridge.

By the way if you search for « Alien » on my blog you’ll find two early Alien games you probably never heard off. One is super minor, the other is by Avalon Hill but was retired almost immediately for copyright infringement reasons (I believe).

It’s coming in my blog before end of the week! I don’t share your assessment, but managed to contact the author and have pretty interesting context on how it came to be.