--- Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:
>
> ^^
> CB: No, I'm saying it brings up appropriate
> historical comparisons. It is
> much better to use historical comparisons than
> "hateful" or "wicked" because
> those are psychological ,moral epithets. "Mongols"
> is not only more remote
> historically, but the Mongols were the good guys.
> "Mongol" an ancient ethnic
> slur in the West.
Sorry Charles but you are out to lunch here. La-la land. Mongol is not an ethnic slur, there was no West when the Golden Horde existed, and that Horde conquered Russia, Persia, and China, killing and enslaving as was their wont. The trauma of the Monol Yolk can only be compared with its impact on Russian consciousness with that of the Nazi invasion. I assume similar sentiments exist in China and Iran.
The Mongolian Invasion (11-13th centuries)
In the middle of 12th century, the Mongol hordes advanced on the Rus lands. As far back as 1223, they inflicted a disastrous defeat on the South Rus princes' bodyguards at the Kalka River, and at the end of 1237, the innumerable masses of Baty-khan began their devastating march over the Rus principalities.
The events of 1237-40 were almost the most tragic in the centuries-old history of the Russian people. Scanty reports in the chronicles about the horrors of the Mongol invasion now are widened by the documents of archeological excavations. The traces of fires, the remains of the people killed in street fighting and crushed under the
debris of fallen buildings, the mass burial places of numerous victims in Old Ryazan, Kiev, and other cities and towns, all these are mute testimony to the awful catastrophy that erupted over the Rus. Cities perished and together with them the most cherished works of the rich and vibrant culture of Old Russia had been destroyed. Many tens of thousands of people had been killed in action, and many of those who had survived had been exterminated by the enemy or taken prisoner. The remains of the population had scattered over the forests, and for long time towns and whole regions, recently populous, were empty of human life. Only the Novgorodian-Pskovian and West-Russian principalities had not been destroyed.
http://gorbunov.bizland.com/mongol_yoke.htm
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