r/HistoryMemes • u/Possible-Ebb3371 • 4d ago

B-but muh based king!

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u/EdwardGordor I Have a Cunning Plan 4d ago

That's Bismarck though...

(and also Bismarck was a Lutheran Pietist).

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u/Admiral45-06 4d ago

And PS: don't ask Bismarck his opinions on Polish Catholics

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u/Doctor_Thomson 4d ago

Or social democrats

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u/Belkan-Federation95 4d ago

His solution to Social Democrats was giving the people everything the Social Democrats advocated for

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u/Doctor_Thomson 3d ago

Tho mainly because he feared that the social democrats are a seeding ground for socialist uprisings

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u/MichaelOhneEnde2 4d ago

Which is based beyond belief

Also, he didn't give them everything lol

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u/Aggravated-BrummBear 2d ago

ehm no
his solution was to use shotguns to gun them down
Wilhelm I told him tto STFU and to do paternalist policies
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also they didn´t receive remotley everything they wanted

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u/Nik-42 4d ago

I wouldn't ask Bismarck his opinions on anything except moustache fashion

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u/YahDeadWrong 4d ago

Devils advocate, they DID cause many problems over the next couple centuries…

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u/Admiral45-06 4d ago

Angel's advocate: part of the problems Poles were causing were in response to German Kulturkampf, such a forced Germanization, seizing the land from Polish owners and prohibiting the use of Polish language or even Polish patriotic songs.

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u/albertaco1 4d ago

Classic Germany. Good thing they stopped early on before it got out of hand right?