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Re:The Napoleonic Guide – 4000 pages of the greatest era in ... by shagmin on Saturday July 15, 2023 @05:38PM (#36741187)
How so? I could see in some ways. But in some aspects they seem like opposites.
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Re:The Napoleonic Guide – 4000 pages of the greatest era in ... by mutant_glofish on Saturday July 15, 2023 @05:45PM (#36741242)
The Godwin's law [1] (AKA Reductio ad Hitlerum [2]) triumphs once again.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum

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Re:The Napoleonic Guide – 4000 pages of the greatest era in ... by madao666 on Saturday July 15, 2023 @05:52PM (#36741287)
No not really, a couple things that Napoleon has done:

- Probably one of the earliest proponents of the creation of a jewish state

- Created a legal system that is still in use today

- Essentially united Germany and changed the face of europe

- Was beloved by his people and his soldiers ( kinda Hitlerish??)

Truly a fascinating man, I recommend reading Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts, I could list more but i literally just woke up.

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Re:The Napoleonic Guide – 4000 pages of the greatest era in ... by JoeyBananas on Friday July 21, 2023 @01:02AM (#36810182)
Well... They both invaded Russia for no good reason with great loss of human life, and at the end of the day they both had imperial/nationalistic motivations.
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