When the Mongols invaded Russia, they invaded while the rivers and marshes were frozen so they could use them as highways.

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• janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  takes some tough ass motherfuckers to invade Russia in winter and not only not all die horribly, but actively use it as a fucking strategy

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We can safely exclude Germany from that list.

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• idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s the trick: be more about the Russian winter than Russia is.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The Autokhan.

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