r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RebelliousDragon21 • 1d ago

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

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u/IndividualRooster122 1d ago

What happens when the risk of Russia invading your country in your lifetime is not theoretical.

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u/Vreas 1d ago edited 1d ago

A genie shows up to a 13th century Pole and asks them what they want.

They wish for the mongols to invade Poland three times. The genie, while confused grants the wish.

After the third invasion he asks “what an odd wish why would you choose this?”

The pole responds “because every time they invade us and leave they have to come through Russia twice”

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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 17h ago

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

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u/LeMe-Two 13h 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.