Maybe the medals on the second picture could provide a hint?
War stories from YOUR ancient relatives
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Maybe the medals on the second picture could provide a hint?
Gen.Mannerheim
Grand Moff
Well I believe that you thought it might have been Austria-Hungary or Russia, but I'm positive Austria-Hungary is out.
I think the Russian Empire or Romania are the two most logical options.
Ajidica
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For whatever reason, I'm getting a very strong Russia vibe from the pictures.
Haven't spent much time with period uniforms though so I'm not exactly an Authority on the subject.
That has to do with exactly what?
They were.... Until all legitimate methods of redressing grievances were ignored. The Confederates never made an attempt to address grievances short of war.
The South shot first. Before the South chose to start shooting, war was avoidable.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
About three years too early there, pal.That's because the Bolsheviks got rid of the last good guys in...the fall of 1918.
trexeric
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Wow, I caused an argument about a war that happened 150 years ago with an old family legend that no one knows the slightest bit about except that he was a traitor. I also was told his last name yesterday: Seal
Good thing I didn't tell any of you guys about other family legends, like the good old story of the evil uncle or the tale of great-grandpa and the flood of 1936... but those have nothing to do with war and would thus not fit in here.
Good thing I didn't tell any of you guys about other family legends, like the good old story of the evil uncle or the tale of great-grandpa and the flood of 1936... but those have nothing to do with war and would thus not fit in here.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
If you hang around CFC long enough, you'll learn that anything can be about the American Civil War. You just have to want it.
Gen.Mannerheim
Grand Moff
So I guess that the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution (which the Lincoln Administration completely ignored), the Crittenden Compromise (which the Lincoln Administration torpedoed and hard-line Republicans killed in committee), the Peace Conference of 1861, and the Confederate Peace Delegation (which the Administration refused to meet with at all) don't count as trying to address their grievances?
The deep south states only voted on secession after the failure of the Crittenden Compromise. Administration and congressional Republican actions strongly suggest that either people in high offices actually wanted war or believed that war was unavoidable. I have always kinda believed that Lincoln took the secession of South Carolina (and the later states) as a personal insult as they basically left because of his election. While I think that this is a really understandable human emotion, it "hardened the pharaoh's heart" if you will making compromise from his end impossible. Congressional Republicans just used the crisis to push in policies that the Democrats had prevented them (and the Whigs) from passing in the past.
This argument is so old it doesn't even merit debate.
This quote should be the motto of CFC!
Domen
Misico dux Vandalorum
Why? Serving in the Austro-Hungarian army was fun:
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Oblt. von Nogay: I will show you, bastards! Medals?! - you want awards?! I will award you in such a way that you will remember me until the end of your lifes. Chef to me! Did you deploy the company according to my instructions?
Company chef: Yes, Sir Oberleutnant.
Oblt. von Nogay: Let's find out. Austrians, come out!
Company chef: Austrians - come out!
Oblt. von Nogay: It turns out that our company has no Austrians at all!
Company chef: I would like to report that we are all Austrians.
Oblt. von Nogay: Everyone? Interesting. So why nobody came out?
Company chef: Because Sir Oberleutnant ordered to deploy the company according to nationalities. From the right to the left there are: Czechs, Slovaks, Slovenes, Bosnians, Croats, Poles...
Oblt. von Nogay: In other words only a herd of Slavic animals incapable of self-contained lifes. And where are Germans?
Company chef: Sir Oberleutnant deigned to interrupt me so I have not managed to mention that Germans and Hungarians are on the left wing.
Oblt. von Nogay: So there are some?! Bravo! We must celebrate this. Order your men to sing a national anthem. You did not understand? National anthem!
Company chef: Company, attention! Anthem!
Oblt. von Nogay: Sing !!!
Soldier A: Gott erhalte, Gott beschütze !!!
Oblt. von Nogay: A castrato? So we have also a castrato in this brothel?!
Company chef: Company, sing!
Soldier B: Unsern Kaiser, unser Land!
Company chef: I report that this is due to incognizance of the German language. They are aware of the national anthem, but they don't know it.
Oblt. von Nogay: They are aware but they don't know... ? So I will teach you the anthem, so you are going to sing it in a dream, with tears in your eyes, you will sing it! You politically suspicious pigs !!! In half an hour entire company with full equipment in the square. I order nightly field exercises.
Link to video.
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
Gelion
Retired Captain
Domen
Misico dux Vandalorum
Yes - "C.K. Dezerterzy" is the name of the movie (and Dezerterzy means Deserters
):http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092713/
Gelion
Retired Captain
Thanks! I'll try to watch it one day and understand more than 10%
Domen
Misico dux Vandalorum
Probably there are English subtitles available somewhere in the internet.
But some scenes are funny even if you don't understand a word.
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During inspection by a general:
Link to video.
Link to video.
But some scenes are funny even if you don't understand a word.
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During inspection by a general:
Link to video.
Link to video.
Gelion
Retired Captain
Probably there are English subtitles available somewhere in the internet.
But some scenes are funny even if you don't understand a word.
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During inspection by a general:
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Good job that my Russian actually helps me understand some of the scenes
. I found another movie "Colonel Kwiatkowski". I do enjoy it a little less (mostly because of politics), but it still seems an interesting film.
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Jewel Runner
Well, to be fair, the connection here is obvious enough. I'm surprised it took this long really.
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
The same could be said about Poland...
For somebody who supposedly thinks that aristocracy is somewhere between "silly" and "an affront to humanity", you do seem to share that aristocratic interest in quixotic beau gestes.About three years too early there, pal.
They would probably help a bunch, but I'm not sure I can get any higher res than that. I can barely see them in the copy I have.
I'm thinking the design on the belt buckle could also provide a tip-off, in that it looks like an eagle of some sort, akin to the Russian flag.
But didn't a lot of
Russia would make the most sense in my opinion, just because my family who immigrated to America came from the Minsk region, and the pictures are of their fathers, or possibly grandfathers.
Romania has actually been mentioned by my family as well, which is interesting to say the least. Is there anything that can be considered distinctive in the photo that could tip off Romanian army? Or is it just he uniform in general looks Romanian/Russian?
