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by pmontra 1037 days ago
Almost no part of the world was free from European colonialism. France was one of the largest colonial powers. If England lost to France maybe India would be speaking French instead of English now.
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bombolo 1037 days ago
And we can all agree that french revolution values are much better than whatever crap the rest of europe was pushing?
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pmontra 1036 days ago
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité: yes. What actually happened, the Terror and an Emperor: no.
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bombolo 1036 days ago
I mean, study some history… with the emperor they still fared much better than before. Which is why they loved the emperor.

But I understand that the anglosaxon history might be a bit biased and edited.

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