Really? I was under the impression the current bunch of internet dwellers are rather uncritically starry-eyed about the Mongols. Especially when the question of Russia comes up. If I had a nickel for every time a redditoid said a variation of “hurr da Mongols had attacked da Russkies in winter and won!”, I’d probably be a petit bourgeoisie by now
It seems to me that people think lots of empires that killed millions of people are ‘cool’. E.g. Mongols, Napoleonic, Byzantine. They only react negatively to things that occured from 20th century onwards.
Really? I was under the impression the current bunch of internet dwellers are rather uncritically starry-eyed about the Mongols. Especially when the question of Russia comes up. If I had a nickel for every time a redditoid said a variation of “hurr da Mongols had attacked da Russkies in winter and won!”, I’d probably be a petit bourgeoisie by now
It seems to me that people think lots of empires that killed millions of people are ‘cool’. E.g. Mongols, Napoleonic, Byzantine. They only react negatively to things that occured from 20th century onwards.