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Read Hadith not fictional books. I only read Non fiction!

Read Hadith not fictional books. I only read Non fiction!

enjoy a lil fiction, there is a lot of truth to them

I am reading a book about the time Italy occupied Ethiopia. It is written by an American guy who was there at the time working for the CIA.

In 1896, a young Russian aristocrat and military officer, Alexander Xavieryevich Bulatovich (1870-1919), arrived in Ethiopia as part of a REd Cross mission sent to provide medical care for Menelik's soldiers following the Battle of Adowa.....

In 1897, Bulatovich's account of these travels was published by V. Kirshbaum in St. Petersburg under the title Ot Entotto do Reki Baro (From Entotto to the River Baro). However, it drew little attention outside of Russia, as did his subsequent volume, S. Voyskami Menelika II (With the Armies of Menelik II), published in 1900 in St. Petersburg by Artistic Press Publishing House. The latter volume is of far greater significance than the former in terms of its importance for Ethiopian historiography because in it Bulatovich describes in detail his experiences accompanying Ras Wolda Giorgis on his expedition of military conquest to Lake Rudolf in 1898. Although an amicus of the Ethiopians, Bulatovich was appalled by their ruthless butchery and pillaging of indigenous peoples, which he often attempted to stop. Describing the behavior of Ethiopian soldiers, he said that they sometimes competed with one another for pride of place in killing villagers and invariably returned with the testicles of their male victims as trophies....One of these victims was a three-year-old boy who has brutally castrated and whom Bulatovich later adopted [Cared for, but did not officially adopt him] and brought back to Russia in 1898.
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Alexander Bulatovich's accounts of his travels in Ethiopia stand in a superior class among works of this genre. He brought to them a remarkable breadth of intellectual interest, and an honesty and objectivity that are easily apparent in his meticulously recorded observations. these observations include insightful analyses of Ethiopian colonial policies and unique eyewitness descriptions of the severe consequences for the African peoples of the implementation of Ethiopian colonialism. As Bulatovich clearly shows, Ethiopian colonialism did not differ in many of its characteristics from its European counterpart.
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The author of Ethiopia through Russian Eyes describes in great detail how Menelik's imperial state drew much of its power and wealth form the exploitation of subjugated peoples, and employed a warrior class well trained in the use of European arms both to acquire territory and to drain it continuously of all its portable wealth. The military campaigns and ensuing Ethiopian rule of conquered regions resulted not only in death and injury for thousands of people, but also in social upheaval, famine, and severe epidemics.
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As its title implies, Ethiopia through Russian Eyes provides English-language readers with a new and different perspective on Ethiopia's imperial past. It will be a valuable resource for scholars form diverse disciplines, and will provide enjoyable reading for many.

Pascal James Imperato
Statue University of New York
Brooklyn, New York

I am reading a book about the time Italy occupied Ethiopia. It is written by an American guy who was there at the time working for the CIA.

I am reading a book about the time Italy occupied Ethiopia. It is written by an American guy who was there at the time working for the CIA.

Didn't those Shoemakers(Italians) Only control Ethiopia for about a day lol