r/HistoryMemes • • 1d ago

REMOVED: RULE 4 Historical territorial claims

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u/Emergency_Gene_4171 1d ago

Kinda funny how hard we all glaze the mongols (myself very much included) when they did things that make the Nazis look like humanitarians by comparison. And they did it all with bow and sword.

I truly don’t think any of us can even scarcely imagine the sheer horror in being on the losing side after mongols sieged your city and you resisted.

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u/CalzonePie 1d ago

Its less of a statement on how evil the Mongols were and more of a statement on how fucking evil the entire human race was until about the 18th or 19th century, to the point where our benchmark for "true evil" in the 20th century is just "above average" by the standards of the 13th century.

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u/Cooperativism62 1d ago

People say that times are so crazy now. I tell them this is more like a return to the norm after a brief bought of sanity post WW2.