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So technically it was Poles as well especially in the end, but the primary driver of this need to Christianise were the marauding Teutonic Order, they would have less reason to seek war if their excuse of Christianisation was dropped. Lithuanians too, Lithuanians were the last pagans of Europe, they were pagan basically into the Renaissance and it would have been so cool if they remained that way, but the Crusaders said no. Especially Poles and Lithuanians, as the Teutonic Order didn't make much headway into Russia, but it did basically fuck the Poles for a thousand years as Germans kept taking and taking from them. Both Muslims and Eastern Euros are still sore about both. They did Crusades into Baltics, Poland and Russia as other Crusaders crusaded into Muslim countries. Westerners think the Crusades in the Levant, we think the Livonian Order, aka Teutonic Order. So the first film you mentioned I had to Google, we don't call it that in Russia, we call it "Krestonotsi" which literally means "those who bear the cross" but to us that's a bad thing because it implies Western Crusaders. Plus, your comment is relevant, the Teutonic Order is a big deal in Russia.
Worry not about unrelated, I just realised my rant about American War of Independence was longer than the actual comment I came to make. But realistic, because money is the #1 that causes conflict ultimately. Not as noble as the fancy words they wrote to justify their economic revolt. The revolt was promulgated by the moneyed alliance of northeast merchants who hated the trade restrictions and tariffs as well as southern landowners who wanted bigger markets for their crops, then the regular people joined in because they wanted to steal more land from Indians. Shit was way worse in Europe, the colonists were massively privileged comparatively and yet they wanted even more, which is why I don't find them as sympathetic. However, stuff like tea was actually cheaper even with the new taxes, since British merchants undercut the American merchants, so the Tea Party wasn't so much a tax protest as it was economic protectionism protest, American merchants didn't care for British merchants undercutting them (and some other limitations of trade). Then raised taxes to pay the enormous debts UK accrued defending the very worthless 13 Colonies (worthless in terms of tax revenue, they were actually a big net drain on the fisc). Brits took care of French and then made treaties with Indians, which promised not to go past Appalachians. The Seven Years War saw UK defeat the French entirely in Canada and utterly erase the biggest boogeymen American colonists had, the French up north who would use certain Amerindian tribes as proxies against British colonists. I tend to be sympathetic to them when I read history of the American War for Independence.
It's like having art of a colonial kid in 1778 ratting out a redcoat, Americans would immediately understand what a redcoat is.Īlthough to be fair that's not even comparable because Teutonic Order were like a biblical plague, whereas British were quite reasonable imo. Trust me, in Russia and Poland the Teutonic Order is anything but subtle, we both made a lot of famous movies about them and they're like the standard historical boogymen.
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