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Nauta posted:is that a joke or do russians actually think they shielded europe from mongols? Apparently there is a belief in Poland that they saved Europe from the Mongols, too. The Mongols were pouring into Eastern Europe, killing the poo poo out of everything as usual. The King of Poland rallies together a bunch of nobles and knights, assembling a decently sized army and goes off to smite heathens. They got entirely annihilated in a no-contest slaughter. Then the Mongols went home to pick their new leader since the current one died of old age. Thus, there is the story that by having to execute 50,000 Polish soldiers the Mongols were scared away from Europe.
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Also in Poland they really like vikings. They have an annual viking ren faire where nazi hippies can play silly instruments and sell fun trinkets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w61uPBb-X-s But the highlight is the battle of the swastika shields, which has scenes like this moshpit wall of death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC81trcS3Io&t=105s
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New mob gravestones photos! http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/feb/13/mob-deep-russian-mafia-gravestones-in-pictures   
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Feb 13, 2015 08:39
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russian MMA makin the US version look like a bunch of ballerinas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06zlOoTHv4g
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Feb 13, 2015 09:12
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Just another example of redshirts going down first.
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Imapanda posted:russian MMA makin the US version look like a bunch of ballerinas this is "MMA" in the same way a moshpit is football: i guess you could vaguely confuse one with the other if you'd only heard rumors from second-hand sources about either
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fatherboxx posted:New mob gravestones photos! I like the friendzoned mob tomb in the back tryin' to peak around the fly honeys tomb.
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Feb 13, 2015 13:14
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAnVIhuANlg Military shots in a Russian bar
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latvian parody on russian song popular amongst their thugs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVJmrWTAbrk
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eigenstate posted:Do westerner's brains also short-circuit when they see Greek? There's two sayings in english when something is not possible to understand. One saying is "It's double dutch", the other is "It's greek to me" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_to_me Fo3 fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Feb 13, 2015 |
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Lil Bit O Vitriol posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAnVIhuANlg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26VW3jo3ST0
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Feb 13, 2015 17:24
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russian-woman-dies-after-dropping-charging-iphone-into-bathtub-10042053.htmlquote:It remains unclear why the charger didn't cut out as licensed Apple products are designed to do. Police did not reveal whether the device was not a licensed Apple product, Mail Online reported.
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If dashcams are now basically universal, why are people still trying this poo poo?
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Kavak posted:If dashcams are now basically universal, why are people still trying this poo poo? because they're dumb?
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Feb 14, 2015 01:42
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what else are they gonna do all day
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Snowy posted:This is my favorite Russian knight larping fight video, especially the armored dudes getting knocked off the wall and the guy who got his ear chopped This was a straight up small skirmish with blunt swords and axes
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Feb 14, 2015 02:26
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katlington posted:This was a straight up small skirmish with blunt swords and axes mount and blade irl
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Feb 14, 2015 02:29
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Can't wait to see when russians do this with actual weapons. a bold new step
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Feb 14, 2015 02:32
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GreyPowerVan posted:Can't wait to see when russians do this with actual weapons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyF5tbN8iXw
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Feb 14, 2015 02:39
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I don't know history who did save Europe from the Mongols?
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Snowy posted:This is my favorite Russian knight larping fight video, especially the armored dudes getting knocked off the wall and the guy who got his ear chopped
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Feb 14, 2015 03:08
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holly gently caress
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Ein cooler Typ posted:I don't know history No one. The mongols fell apart.
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Nuclearmonkee posted:No one. The mongols fell apart. Yeah basically the mongol system of succession meant all major chieftains had to return home to elect a new Khan when the current one died. The mongol system of succession wasn't 100% hereditary, basically a potential Khan had to win enough votes from the lower nobles. It was somewhat similar in this respect to the Holy Roman Empire.
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Nuclearmonkee posted:No one. The mongols fell apart. Alcoholism is a hell of a disease. Also cultural assimilation.
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syscall girl posted:Alcoholism is a hell of a disease. Also cultural assimilation. also no foreign invader could defeat the chinese's main secret weapon, lots of joyless sex.
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Feb 14, 2015 03:29
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gettin drunk off vodka tonight feelin russian af. it really is the best liquor imo. so versatile and cheap
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thathonkey posted:gettin drunk off vodka tonight feelin russian af. it really is the best liquor imo. so versatile and cheap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WylnLBGVLbc
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Feb 14, 2015 03:32
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lol what are they using to chase? is that a tomato?
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Ein cooler Typ posted:I don't know history ogedei khan's alcoholism.
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etalian posted:also no foreign invader could defeat the chinese's main secret weapon, lots of joyless sex. China claims the joyless sex that Ghengis invented. 
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etalian posted:Yeah basically the mongol system of succession meant all major chieftains had to return home to elect a new Khan when the current one died. Yeah, every time a new Khan was chosen everyone had to ride across the continent on horseback to elect the new one. The second time this happened (after Genghis Khan's first heir successor died) the nobles couldn't agree and there was a civil war that broke the empire into smaller successor states. The Mongols were defeated by inheritance law.
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Fun history fact 4 u: The Mongols weren't the only empire defeated by succession law. Rome fell apart during the third century largely due to the fact that there were actually no formal rules for who got to be Emperor after the reigning Emperor died. The Emperor was 'acclaimed' rather than crowned, meaning essentially that you are the emperor when everyone decides you are. In practice this lead to frequent civil wars because in addition to the emperor's heir (there were also no rules for who this could be) there were also often generals who got acclaimed by their troops when news of the emperor's death arrived. In the early fourth century there was an attempt to reform this system but it never stuck, even when the Western Empire fell the Eastern half still had this problem throughout its thousand-year existence. This is tangentially relevant to the thread since the Russian Empire claimed to be the 'Third Rome' owing to its Orthodox Christian heritage (like the Eastern Roman Empire) and the Rurikid dynasty's marital link to one of Eastern Rome's imperial families.
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This is boring whaT I want to know is whats up with mongolians miniature mexican sombreros.
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fatherboxx posted:New mob gravestones photos! i'm the woman on the left gravestone in the first picture
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fatherboxx posted:New mob gravestones photos! Pfft, this is were the Mexican cartels got them beat. They build a small resort on top of them, like a party pyramid. You can party in a Mexican drug cartel member's tomb, just be warned you can incur the wrath of a rival cartel by doing so.
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GreyPowerVan posted:Can't wait to see when russians do this with actual weapons. Oh, those are real weapons. Doesn't matter if they're sharp or blunt if you wear armor. The only thing that keeps them from piling up bodies, is that stabbing is forbidden in these matches.
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