They survived for several months AND an Italian invasion

But what about that one building in southern Russia?

AKA the USSR?

They only entered the war because of Japan now, come on dude

Ok ok, chill

I am chill, it's just I might snarl a bit when it comes to correcting info

K

I don't think that the USSR counts. It actually handled the Nazis pretty well and were gaining ground before the Allies pulled D-Day. The theme is surviving the Nazis under oppression. If you want a country that did that, what you need is the Brits.

I specifically stated about just one building in the USSR, not the whole USSR

They lasted about as long as the Danes did, which is Basically the equivalent of Russia surviving ww1 altogether

Yeah not our Danes proudest moment...

What do the Danes have to do with this?

The Danes got all ready for war, then when Germany threatened them, they surrendered, but that's not really related to the meme, since it only involved France, Norway, and Greece, not Denmark.

The Greeks got their survivability from their predecessors, the Byzantines.

Nah, Zeus helped them

The Greeks were all Christians by then, which was started by the Byzantines

Not quite, Christianity was made the official religion in the late roman empire era (300 dc aprox)

No, that's more the mid-Roman Empire era. The late Roman Empire era is from the 1200s until the 1400s.

I'll admit, "started" wasn't quite the proper word. It was started by Constantine, and whether you can call it the Byzantine Empire by then is arguable.

I'm pretty sure that was actually the holy Roman empire, which evolved to become Germany, not italy. By true logic, that would be the 2nd Roman era, while the late Roman era, or technically the 1st late Roman era was still up untill the Byzantines finally fell to the ottomans. If we could go by that logic, the Greeks would also have gotten their survivability from Germany (one of the central powers), and Russia (which fell early due to the Bolsheviks), so Mateo was right if I'm gonna be honest.

The reason why I mentioned Russia here is because they were the 3rd Rome, and so their formation as the Russian empire began the 3rd Roman empire era, which could have happened as the holy Roman empire still existed but idrk

Wait mb I meant the Germans (the other Nation the Greeks "got their survivability from" was literally the N@xis themselves. Srry I thought we were talking ww1 not ww2 for a second

Actually, my reasoning is that the Byzantine Empire was in Greece until it died, so the Greeks' origins are of there. Not the Germans, they never had Greece. Not the Russians, they didn't either. Not the Ottomans because the Greeks weren't assimilated into Islam before the Ottomans fell.

And no, I was talking about the time between the first successful siege of Constantinople (by the Venetians) up until the second (by the Ottomans). As they were headed downhill ever since that Venetian capture of Constantinople. The Byzantine Empire has very Roman roots. The H.R.E, though, does not, and they don't count for any period of the Roman Empire, they were never Roman to start with.

Also, the H.R.E. did not evolve into the German Empire. It was abolished by the Austrian Empire when Napoleon conquered it. It was Prussia that evolved into the German Empire.

K

This was supposed to be funny, because the Roman Empire (the Byzantine Empire) continued to survive for 250 years in their dying phase. Another state in their phase would be long defeated by then, and you can see that many places tried to do it for them in the amount of failed sieges of Constantinople.