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I especially like when they look at an old cathedral or town hall or something and go like "Why would a building have such a big door? Because it was for a Real Big Guy! That's right, the Tartarians were also giants!"
And yeah, they love saying that "Grand Tartaria" was an ancient empire from anywhere from the 1700s (when the term appeared on maps) to like, a million years ago, just because. And "their" buildings survived in perfect condition but weren't mentioned or used by anyone until the time the quote unquote "official story" says that people actually built them. Because...reasons.
It's just so completely off base from even the most basic understanding of anything that it would be hilarious if it wasn't actually taken seriously by some very sad and angry people. And unfortunately I have seen it linked back to antisemitism. Blaming the Jews for why their terrible historical fanfiction makes no sense seems to be an inevitability of all these alt history things.