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Mongol kh
Used to read quite a bit about the Mongol era.
They were unparalleled butchers and masters of evil. Yet somehow they have largely been given a pass by modern historians…probably because they are not of western civilization.
Examples:
They perfected Genocide waaaayy before Hitler, Stalin and the Armenian massacre. On his rise to power Genghis exterminated an entire tribe..can’t remember which one..maybe the “white” mongols. Anyway he ordered all “men” as tall or taller than a cart wheeled executed and then 100% of the women enslaved.
They went on to conqueror the Khwarazmian Empire and rivers of blood flowed. You can look up the civilian populations massacred and it’s a list of 80,000 there 150,000 there, 72,000…here. When Baghdad was razed they killed SO many civilians the stench of 100s of thousands of corpses made them move their camp TWO times. Arabic sources claim 2,000,000 men, women and children were slaughtered…that’s when the population of the entire world (including the undiscovered americas) was about 1/2 billion. Islam literally almost disappeared at the height of their power…(hmmmm).
When they invaded Japan (and lost btw) they skewered hands of civilian captives (children too) and roped them together because it was easier than tying those finicky knots individually.
I don’t think even historians know how many Chinese the mongols killed. Millions upon millions.
Mongols wallowed in slavery.
Genghis Khan raped, married and bought so many women that up to 1 in every 10 men in Central Asia can trace ancestry directly to him today! His men did similar but to a less prolific degree.
Yes They were evil incarnate.
Yet modern western historians will say Christian conservative males are somehow the most evil…because we generally don’t like trans stripping in front of kids , do like Trump and want a regulated border I guess.
Then he went on to write "War, What Is It Good For?"
So the peaceful Rus villagers were attacked by Mongols, and forced to pay tribute, prompting their union and defense, accomplished by Peter The Great, where they prevailed defeating and driving out the Mongols, whereupon the Russians (!) refused to continue to pay tribute to Mongol Kahn Crimea, and made Crimea Russian in 1685.
That's good to know.
Is it any wonder that the ruling Russian authorities today fear encroachment from their western enemies?
Interesting. The Mongol Empire used to collect tribute from their slave or vassal States and when those slave and vassal States stopped paying tribute the Mongol Empire collapsed.
The USSR/Russia emulated the Mongols by extracting tribute and slaves from Eastern Europe and the ‘stans.
Now Putin wants to restore a fallen empire and tribute will of course be paid to Moscow. Given how he is kidnapping Ukrainians from Ukraine and deporting them as far as Siberia it is also clear that he wants slaves.
Nothing ever changes in Russia but the names.
” The important part of the Mongols’ policy was that they protected the Russian Orthodox churches, never ravaged them, and kept the clergy safe. For protection, the church was obliged to preach allegiance to the Mongol Tatars to their parishioners.”
Russia has had a state denomination ever since.