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RedditThroughHistory

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Let's make posts of historical events and pretend they just happened.

Pretend the historical event is happening now and you are making a reddit post about it.

Guidelines:

Good posts - Clever, smart, witty posts pretending the historical event is actually happening right now, and what a post on reddit about the event would look like. Example of a great r/RedditThroughHistory post. Oh, and don't forget about RAGE COMICS! These can be great RedditThroughHistory posts if done correctly. Give it a try!

Bad posts - Posts that link directly to wikipedia pages for the most part are not very creative. If a big historical event was happening right now, you wouldn't really post the link to its wikipedia page on reddit. Also, posts of something that got famous and end in "I sure hope this catches/doesn't catch on", or some variation thereof. These posts aren't very creative and lack substance - you might as well just say "HEY HARRY POTTER THAT WAS NOT VERY WELL KNOWN AND THEN IT WAS WELL KNOWN!" or some variation. And lastly, try not to post about events from the last 5, 10, even 20 years. They are too recent. Get out your old Social Studies textbooks and get more creative!

Also, thank you Little_Robot for the new theme!

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[–]Heyitscharlie 23 points24 points ago

Quit Stalin, who is it?

[–]VaultAir[S] 15 points16 points ago

Not completely sure, but I'm Russian to find out.

[–]_rafiki_ 12 points13 points ago

This is bolshevik!

[–]cobalt999 7 points8 points ago

Hungary for answers here, anyone come up with some info?

[–]VaultAir[S] 8 points9 points ago

I'm trying not to stress out too much, but I'm Putin in the effort.

[–]bleachpedro3 1 point2 points ago

I was going to be Lenin my knowledge to you guys,but never mind.

[–]StalinsLastStand 6 points7 points ago

I'm pretty sure he's a redditor. Hangs out mostly in r/politics.

[–]MechaToast 1 point2 points ago

I think he's one of the guys who bans people for disagreeing in /r/communism.

[–]Teotwawki69 4 points5 points ago

I do believe I... um... serviced him in the men's room, but when I was done he got weird and stared muttering how Jewish women were his thing, then he ran away. Still, definitely an RPG and a half. Which probably means that he his flying rodent feces insane...

[–]kilkel 2 points3 points ago

I may be mistaken, but I believe I met his ridiculously photogenic son while I was running a marathon...

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

I very much doubt that he will amount to anything! not if he just keeps showing up at these socialist meetings instead of going to work!

[–]hyperbagel65 0 points1 point ago

That hippie needs a haircut.

[–]featheredtar 0 points1 point ago

People who know him say he'll have no qualms using Gori massacres to achieve his aims if he eventually gets power.