That’s what makes it so “funny”. You know Ivan IV, the so-called “terrible”? For one thing this nickname is a mistranslation. For the other - were his conquests any worse, any different from anything other European powers were doing at the time? In Americas, in India, at home?
Because, you know, every other empire
at the timehave been innocent little puppies that never as much as touched a fly.That’s what makes it so “funny”. You know Ivan IV, the so-called “terrible”? For one thing this nickname is a mistranslation. For the other - were his conquests any worse, any different from anything other European powers were doing at the time? In Americas, in India, at home?