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It's during the continuation War, I think.
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Possibly a silly question, but why was Russia always lagging behind the other European powers? They had far more natural resources and manpower than the others. I guess possibly it's because they had to station so many soldiers around their borders that they didn't have the budget to modernize at the same speed as the other powers; but that raises the question, why didn't they just treat the eastern 3/4ths of Russia as basically a giant colony, and pour everything into putting the western 1/4th of the empire?
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Essentially Serfdom.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
This is a difficult question. Since most of my answer is going to come from this text, I'll just link you to the relevant chapter of the e-book version of it. Trotsky doesn't have the whole answer, but he has most of it.
The Peculiarities of Russia's Development.
In the 20th Century, I expect it is largely due to a lack of industrialization, and then the revolution/civil war and some communist policies kept it back until WWII. After WWII it was a match to most of Europe, but they put too much of their economy into the military and political projects (i.e. the space race) and gradually the rest started coming apart somewhat. THough this is purely speculative it does seem logical.
Why did they lag behind at times before that I have no idea. Or even if they lagged behind by much most of the time.
they actually exceeded the US in some sciences
Russia was such a large empire that it was very difficult to manage all the resources and manpower and develop the country properly. Even the western 1/4 of the empire is half the total area of Europe. The social policies of the Tsarist era did not exactly promote development either.
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As others have already sleuthed, they're Finns.Which unit does these germans in wwII belong to? Doesn't look SS, but the skull on their helmet? They look young and lightdressed so its probably late in the war and in the summer/early autumn/late spring. The uniform seems very simple, so I guess its not any of the elite part of the german army.
The knife of one of the kids could be the typical hitlerjugend knife , but the colour on the handle doesn't match. The thing that caught me with the pic was the skull on the helmet. I thought it was only the totenkopf that wear something like that. Perhaps its just a training uniform?
Dunno if anyone here knows anything about it, but I post it anyway
Found them in a thread on Axis History for you too.
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=19999&highlight
It would seem to be an inofficial insignia of a recon unit.
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Were the Romanovs related by blood to the Rurik dynasty? That is to say, was Michael I legitimately in the line of succession to the throne?
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If Franz Ferdinand hadn't been assassinated, and he had become Emperor, what would his title have been? When he died, would Charles I still had become Emperor?
His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, Franz Ferdinand I, by the Grace of God Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, King of Bohemia, of Dalmatia, of Croatia, Slavonia, Galicia, Lodomeria, and Illyria; King of Jerusalem etc.; Archduke of Austria; Grand Duke of Tuscany and Cracow, Duke of Lorraine, of Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola and of the Bukovina; Grand Prince of Transylvania; Margrave of Moravia; Duke of Upper and Lower Silesia, of Modena, Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla, of Auschwitz, Zator and Teschen, Friuli, Ragusa, and Zara; Princely Count of Habsburg and Tyrol, of Kyburg, Gorizia and Gradisca; Prince of Trent and Brixen; Margrave of Upper and Lower Lusatia and in Istria; Count of Hohenems, Feldkirch, Bregenz, Sonnenberg, etc.; Lord of Trieste, of Cattaro, and in the Windic March; Grand Voivode of the Voivodship of Serbia etc.
Assuming, that is, his planned trialist reforms wouldn't have changed that in some way. Which they probably would have.
Since Franz Ferdinand's marriage was morganatic, AFAIK Karl would still have been next in line.LightSpectra said:
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That was a really detailed answer. I was just looking for "Emperor Franz Ferdinand I," though. 
Harvin87
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Worth saying . .. that one of the many top "tactical" reasons of Germany's defeat against the red army in the second world war ... was due the catastrophic conditions of the Russian road network... Russia was well behind in general development . . and on the other hand the raging T-34's well used the German Autobahns...
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Dachs...why did you give the name "Auschwitz"?
"Auschwitz" as a name wasn't adopted until after 1939, when tthe Germans occupied Ozweicim, and couldn't pronounce the name.
"Auschwitz" as a name wasn't adopted until after 1939, when tthe Germans occupied Ozweicim, and couldn't pronounce the name.
Road condition isn't a solely tactical application of friction, it has pretty important operational and strategic impacts on the efficacy of supply.
And what do you think the Austrian Germans called it back when they owned it?
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I'm not sure Auschwitz....I was under the impressian it was more of a Saxon interpretation.
Ah, nope, not according to "Heraldry of the World" and its listing of the Auschwitz Herzogtum or the magic of Google Books popping up with an 1880 reference in a book on Austria-Hungary to the "Duchy of Auschwitz".
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