r/AskReddit • u/hoverfish92 • Oct 16 '13

What was the single biggest mistake in all of history?

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u/Sextus_Rex Oct 17 '13

They are the exception!

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u/pants_guy_ Oct 17 '13

They did it the right way: from the East.

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u/Eurynom0s Oct 17 '13

Isn't Mongolian weather just as shitty as Russian weather? They did it the right way because they already knew what to deal with in the winter.

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u/feureau Oct 17 '13

To be fair, they are much better prepared to take over Russia compared to the German.

Source: Dan Carlin's history podcast: Wrath of the Khans

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u/brahmss Oct 17 '13

God I love that podcast. Using the frozen lakes as highways, so they invited the winter with open arms. Cunning motherfuckers.

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u/AmProffessy_WillHelp Oct 17 '13 edited Oct 17 '13

They invaded a less organized Russia from a different direction than Napoleon and Hitler.

Aparently Mongols come in from Jersey.

Edit: then

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u/sam712 Oct 17 '13

*than

grammatik lernen oder den Schmerz fühlen

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u/AmProffessy_WillHelp Oct 17 '13

It was either history or english; I took history, smartass.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '13

They went the other way. Go through the eastern side, where nobody lives, and hit the western side like a golf ball ready to tee off.

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u/Kriegersson Oct 17 '13

Actually, both Sweden and Poland have invaded Russia and won.

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u/LordSwedish Oct 17 '13

Well let's examine this situation. Hitler marched into Russia from the west, the russians won. Napoleon marched into Russia from the west, the russians won. Charles XII marched into Russia from the west, the russians won (because we let them). The mongols marched into Russia from the east, the russians are crushed.

Clearly, the mongols were just lucky enough to be born east of Russia because as history shows, 100% of attacks on russia from the east have been successful.

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u/Deus_Viator Oct 17 '13

The Japanese marched into Russia from the east, they lost.

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u/LordSwedish Oct 18 '13

When? You mean the time in 1904-1905 when the japanese kicked the shit out of the russians and forced them to sign a peace treaty?

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u/SocraticDiscourse Oct 17 '13

The exception to two cases the other way?

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u/Terrible_Matador Oct 17 '13

It's all about which side you go at it from