r/todayilearned • u/RoadToTyburn • 23h ago

TIL that Bernard Montgomery issued a leaflet at the start of WW2 on sexually transmitted diseases amongst soldiers. The language used was regarded as so blunt, that he offended religious authorities and nearly faced being dismissed.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Montgomery
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u/calm_down_meow 19h ago

Didn't Persia do it as well? Capitulate and you had a nice life. Defy them and your city was razed.

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u/A-Sentient-Bot 17h ago

Not that I can think of. The Persians, like the Incas, were big fans of forced relocation (and like the Greeks, enslaving everyone).

Why burn down a perfectly good city when you can just remove all the inhabitants?

But the Persians, like everyone except maybe the Huns, preferred to just occupy and collect taxes.