Caricature map of Europe from 1871.

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by MrFlow

31 comments
  1. Well that explains why people think there are polar bears walking around in Finland.. It’s just Finnish people dressed as polar bears.

  2. Poland portrayed as a maiden chained by Austria, Prussia and Russia is especially strong. It’s supposed to show how the country was invaded and divided by the three oppressors that took advantage of something to do with no government being established? Please correct me if I’m wrong.

  3. The fact that Lapland moved hundreds of kms south of where it should be and is inhabited by Turkish lookalikes is also interesting

  4. Mm… classic kacap (we calling russians with this word, but actually it is from Turkic butcher)

  5. LoL at Iceland looking like an insane shipwrecked troglodyte. Finland is a shaman chilling in the northern forests. Norway looking like a mujahid. Sicily chilling in perpetuum. Corsica for sale, Sardinia a trap. Ottoman power as merely a straw man for the unawakened Balkan sheep. Moldova showing finesse in getting that crown. Someone hiding in the Ionian Islands and in Gibraltar, wonder who that is. Russia very accurately depicted.

  6. I wonder on what was the creator of this map lmao

  7. Are those free roaming criminal jews in Estonia and Ukraine? 😅
    And what is going on in the Balkans? Will you guys ever cool down? 😂

  8. A lot of Welsh people did indeed settle in the area around Mobile Bay, Alabama, but that’s a pretty esoteric thing to base a national caricature on.

  9. Switzerland aged like fine wine. It’s not surprising, though. Switzerland has been neutral since the early 19th century.

    Russia hasn’t changed as well. It’s just a different role than the tsar, similar power structures.

  10. I wish it had some sort of legend for this i find it so interesting. Transylvania busy looking at the fights in the west while Moldova stealing from clueless Walachia . all this while the Turks come to them as the rest of the Balkan states are livestock kept with a scarecrow made to look like the Turks . i wanna know the meaning for it all. also did the Welsh go to Alabama?

  11. I’m confused with representation of Poland. I know about the partitions and Russians treating it as a colony but I can’t connect the symbolics used here to anything Polish

  12. Personal observations.

    Britain blowing paper boats is just so cute.

    The Balkans are depicted as a bunch of sheep under an empty Ottoman scarecrow.

    Also what is going on with Spain? Who’s that guy trapped under a lock near Italy and switzerland?

  13. why is the Netherlands a jack-in-the-box devil? lmao
    What does it even say on the banner?

  14. Is there an explanation for each numbered drawing ?

  15. Prussia is accurate.

    Love how Finland is being like “the fuck they doin’ over there”

    *<Obligatory Russia comment>*

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