Prussia. Sorry. [Gene likes history, but it's sort of strange, editing yourself to try and explain all of it to someone who doesn't have the same context that you do.
He wonders if this is how other people feel, talking to him.
And he does know, but, wow. This is gonna be hard to explain.]
It's complicated. [He lets out a breath, trying to figure out where, exactly, to start.] There was another year about thirty years ago, where Germany lost. A lotta people were upset about how it ended and decided they wanted to make Germany a world power again, so this guy Hitler convinced everyone to put him in charge, and he basically tried to take over Europe. Parts of Africa, too, and he would've gone farther if people hadn't tried to stop him.
Japan wanted more or less the same thing, but in the Pacific.
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Date: 2015-02-12 12:15 am (UTC)He wonders if this is how other people feel, talking to him.
And he does know, but, wow. This is gonna be hard to explain.]
It's complicated. [He lets out a breath, trying to figure out where, exactly, to start.] There was another year about thirty years ago, where Germany lost. A lotta people were upset about how it ended and decided they wanted to make Germany a world power again, so this guy Hitler convinced everyone to put him in charge, and he basically tried to take over Europe. Parts of Africa, too, and he would've gone farther if people hadn't tried to stop him.
Japan wanted more or less the same thing, but in the Pacific.