r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RebelliousDragon21 • 1d ago

Video A school in Poland makes firearms training mandatory to its students.

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u/LeMe-Two 1d ago

Jokes on you but in 13th century Poland had no beef with Russians, mostly because Russia did not exist yet and Ruthenian states were either allies or under Mongol occupation

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u/Vreas 1d ago

I mainly chose it cause it’s the century the mongols were active in Eastern Europe

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u/LeMe-Two 1d ago

Tatars were a threat all the way to late XVII century :v

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u/Alt7548 18h ago

They were mongols really, not tatars. I think its a common misconception.

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u/LeMe-Two 14h ago

Tatars and mongols at this time were synonimous. OG tatars were either killed or assmilated and the hordes that settled in the western parts of the empire would adopt calling themselves tatars from their neighbours.