• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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    7 hours ago

    Rome didn’t have special rooms for people to vomit in, then resume feasting.

    Soviet blocking brigades weren’t machine gun nests set up to mow down retreating soviet soldiers.

    Vietnam had a regular army, it wasn’t entirely a guerrilla force.

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      Vietnam had a regular army, it wasn’t entirely a guerrilla force.

      Did they not teach that North Vietnam (and therefore the NVA) existed?

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        Kind of. That’s not really reconciled with the l general impression that the US won every single battle, and couldn’t find any more enemies to fight, because the Vietnamese would run away and hide in the woods or among the locals and the US only lost the war at home.

    • Rome didn’t have special rooms for people to vomit in, then resume feasting.

      This is more like not being taught anything other than that they had “vomitoriums,” without being told what they were. Vomitoriums existed. They still exist, too. It just means a large opening or passageway. Like the entrance/exit to the colluseum.

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        No, they literally taught that the romans feasted so much they had special rooms for vomiting in. One of my aunts was incredulous that it was no longer taught, and insisted she had been to rome and saw the vomitoria, and remains convinced that it’s just some new theory by some fringe historian.