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Re:The New Europe With Lasting Peace (100 year old map) by praptak on Sunday November 08, 2020 @10:50AM (#25026498)
How is that propaganda? Looks like a honest (and maybe naive) project.
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Re:The New Europe With Lasting Peace (100 year old map) by everybodyknows on Sunday November 08, 2020 @11:18AM (#25026712)
States, or cantons, in the shape of narrow pie-wedges, with borders cutting straight across rivers and mountains, are obviously impossible to administer.

For a lively introduction to the failure at Versailles, I can recommend John Maynard Keynes' Notes on the Peace.

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