Your favourite historical country?

[tekkip20@lemmy.world]

My favourite part of modern history is the cold war, my country of choice would be the U.S.S.R

My reasons are simple:

• They sent the first man into space and sent Sputnik which sent the USA into a space chasing frenzy that made moon discovery possible.

• Their flag, whilst simple like the PRC, is iconic in both memes but also infamy amongst Eastern European people as a sign of the historical power they wielded over half of Europe. I also just think it's look cool.

• Some of their structure sort of lives on in the modern era such as the PRC's Politburo basically being a chinese version of the soviet one

• I quite like a lot of the military hardware they made like the T 72 which is my favourite tank.

• The soviets are responsible for Tetris!!!

What is your favourite historical country? It can be ancient, medieval, colonial era or cold war era etc.

Have a good day/night!

[xmunk@sh.itjust.works]

The fact that the Paris Commune existed is just fucking awesome. It was just a confluence of luck that is statistically staggering.

The Haudenosaunee confederation was pretty fucking swell from a governance and justice perspective. And it's formation, while not ending war by any means, brought on a really stable period of mostly peace.

[snotflickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Not a historical country, per se, but I love traditional names for places.

Here's a little song about such a thing.

[diddlydee@feddit.uk]

Abyssinia is pretty cool, as is Zanzibar. 'I'm not gonna cook it but I'll order it from Zanzibar'.

[pauldrye@lemm.ee]

I'm fond of the Imperial County of Reuss, which was semi-independent in the Holy Roman Empire. The madlads named all their rulers "Heinrich", resulting such personages as Heinrich LXXII ("Heinrich the 72nd")

[subarctictundra@lemmy.ml]

Free City of Danzig 1920-39

[taalnazi@lemmy.world]

The Zapatists, of course. Or if we go by past ones, the Makhnovshchina movement!

A mass movement to have liberation from authoritarianism AND capitalism? Count me in!

[ourkaos@lemmy.today]

The absolute banger of a National Anthem is why I always played as the U.S.S.R. in video games as a kid.

[cowbee@lemmy.ml]

Gonna have to agree with the USSR, the fall to Capitalism has been devastating not only for the former-Soviet countries, but workers around the world.