re: History buffs: What is the biggest instance of FAFO of all-time?

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That one Queen whose husband was killed. Wish I could remember her name.

Brokered for peace, invited some nobles from the nation who killed her husband to her city. Had them locked in a bathhouse and killed.

She takes her army and Surrounded their city. They offered anything she wanted for peace, so she asks for all the birds in the city. Ties something that was either on fire or would catch fire to the birds, they go back to their nests and the whole city burns down

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Olga of Kiev. If the stories are true, she would be the epitome of "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"

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Olga of Kiev. If the stories are true, she would be the epitome of "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"

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It kind of sounds fake to me, but who knows. Its a badass story either way

Iirc she is an Eastern Orthy saint

There is also Tomyris, Queen of the Massagetae.

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When the founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, Cyrus, asked for the hand of Tomyris with the intent of acquiring her kingdom through the marriage, she understood Cyrus's aims and rejected his proposal. On the advice of the Lydian Croesus, Cyrus responded to Tomyris's rejection by deciding to invade the Massagetae.[3][5][4] When Cyrus started building a bridge on the Araxes river with the intent of attacking the Massagetae, Tomyris advised him to remain satisfied with ruling his own kingdom and to allow her to rule her kingdom. Cyrus's initial assault was routed by the Massagetae, after which he set up a fancy banquet with large amounts of wine in the tents of his camp as an ambush and withdrew.[6][7][4]

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The Massagetae, led by Tomyris's son and the commander of their army, Spargapises, who primarily used fermented mare's milk and cannabis as intoxicants like all Iron Age steppe nomads, and therefore were not used to drinking wine, became drunk and were easily defeated and slaughtered by Cyrus, thus destroying a third of the Massagetaean army. Spargapises had been captured by Cyrus, and, once he had become sober and understood his situation, he asked Cyrus to free him, and after Cyrus acquiesced to his pleas, he killed himself.[6][7][4] After Tomyris found out about the death of Spargapises, she sent Cyrus an angry message in which she called the wine, which had caused the destruction of her army and her son, a drug which made those who consumed it so mad that they spoke evil words, and demanded him to leave his land or else she would, swearing upon the Sun, "give him more blood than he could drink."[6][4]

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In the account of Herodotos (contradicted by various other sources), Tomyris herself led the Massagetaean army into war, and, during the next battle opposing the Massagetae to the forces of Cyrus, Tomyris defeated the Persians and destroyed most of their army. Cyrus himself was killed in the battle, and Tomyris found his corpse, severed his head and put it in a bag filled with blood while telling Cyrus, "Drink your fill of blood!"[3][6][5][8]

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Also a great metal song by A Sound of Thunder.

Russian mobilization for the Russo-jap war was hampered by excessive vodka drinking as the army traveled east to the front. The war ended in a national embarrassment.

Tsar Nicholas decided to not make the same mistake twice, so prohibition was enforced on the entire country at the start of WW1. The Tsar had a monopoly on alcohol sales so they could do this effectively.

The troops did mobilize faster but the Tsar lost ~30% of the governments revenue which came from booze


WW1 was a disaster for Russia. No funds led to poor conditions and under-supplied on the front leading to the spread of communist ideology. Also the governments lack of funds led to food supplies running short on both the home front and eastern front of WW1. Women's Day food shortage protest in 1917 helped spark the revolution

So a few soldiers getting shitfaced in 1905 caused the Russian Revolution 12 years later and everything that came with Soviet leadership

I’ll vote for Nazi Germany with Japan a close second.