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  • Kind of in German? Because the last “word”-part in the word determines what it really is and the separate parts of the word stay with the same meaning most of the time, so the end result is often connected to the meanings of the word parts it is made up of.

    As example:

    Fahr = driving-related
    Fahrt = the drive
    Plan = map, plan
    Bus = … bus

    Fahrplan = timetable for trains, busses etc
    Planfahrt = drive that is according to some plan (instead of outside of the planned timetable)
    Busfahrplan = timetable for busses



  • The Wizard of the Emerald City and it’s series from Alexander Melentyevich Volkov. The first story was a nearly 100 % ripoff of The Wizard of Oz and later books also contain some ideas from the original stories from Baum, but Volkov also created a lot on his own in the sequels. And I love the world he created. I especially like that villains were portrayed in a manner that made sense. While there also were some archetypical “I’m capital E Evil” the character of Urfin was fascinating to me as a child, as it was one of the first instances of a multidimensional charactersi experienced as child. He was an overly ambitious but smart person in a fairy tale village where everybody else was content with their simple life. And that discrepancy was the start of his road to villainhood.













  • Both sides were the aggressors in general and each side had moments where they were the more active part leading to confrontations.

    I don’t think the cold war can be described as one single conflict with a clear aggressor, which is the whole point why it is called a cold war.

    I’m not knowledgeable enough if there are statistics about which side was more in the wrong or did more aggressor stuff.

    But for me, knowing that the USA did the Iran and CIA stuff while the USSR did Afghanistan and KGB stuff is enough for me to decide both were elitist assholes that didn’t care for normal humans but just wanted to increase their own power.