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Nah, the Vatican just trying to get off the sanctions list 😂

Cool thanks!

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To be fair they are somewhat copying the Russian Army. The Russians offer bonuses for every piece of equipment destroyed and for killing or capturing Ukrainian officers and NCOs, or members of certain formations like Azov.

Furthermorr, if you follow Telegram channels of various Russian formations they regularly post calls for donations and fundraisers that they use to buy extra medical equipment and food, as well as motorcycles, buggies, civilian cars, drones, specialized equipment not issued by the Army and the spare parts to maintain them. It's also widely publicized that along with this crowdfunding, most Russian formations require their soldiers to contribute a % of their wage to a communal fund for such purchases.

Some formations even use such funds as a sort of additional life insurance and healthcare coverage for their heavily wounded and deceased soldiers and their families, aside from what is offered officially by the Russian Federation.

Isn't UNRWA supposed to be a UN organization? Lol

UNRWA participated in the October 7th uprising? What?

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Sure, but the Ukrainians can use those 3 days to do the same thing. And the way things are, that means the Russian army loses momentum while Ukrainians gain respite (if they actually go for the ceasefire). Don't get me wrong, I agree with Putin's decision. It's the right thing to do, both morally and politically. Especially for the reasons to outline (but I think in Putin's mind he's just trying to present some good faith on Russia's behalf, and he's probably hoping there's no incident in Moscow while a bunch of BRICS leaders and other world leaders gather together). But militarily it might turn out to hurt the Russian effort more than it would help.

Winter was dedicated to all the maintenance stuff mostly, and there was mostly no other field work during that time. They had way more holidays as you say, and they also had a lot more breaks during the day. Historians have done studies on this. An average 8-hour labourer today works about 1800 hours per year, accounting for breaks and holidays. An average medieval peasant would work significantly less so. English peasants had it worse at 1600 hours. French and Germans would fluctuate at 1300-1400 hours. Italian and French would also fluctuate at 1200-1300. Byzantine peasants (whose majority were not serfs and worked on their own land) would work much less at 1000-1200 hours per year!

I like how the Lithuanians conquering and ethnically cleansing the Kievan Rus is called "liberation".

Also wonderful how the Catholic German and Polish settlers of the Baltic area are called "Lithuanians".

Bonus points for completely ignoring where the Rus actually came from prior to founding Kiev.

Why do they keep using the word “horde?”

Because that's what they are called in the Europa Universalis games, and that is the sum of their history education

On a serious note the Mongol splinter khanates called themselves "Hordes". And some of them preceded their Horde name with a colour to distinguish each other. You had the White Horde, the Blue Horde, and the Golden Horde.

The point of the meme is that a modern-day wage labourer is exploited way more than a medieval wage labourer. There's nothing there about famines, plagues and wars (which by the way only went away from Europe to an extend for the past 80 years, and there's no guarantee that they'll be staying away).

Also don't forget:

Medieval peasants worked on average (depending on the area and era you are looking at) 30-60% less hours per year than present-day wage-workers

Medieval peasants who worked on someone else's land could elect not to go to work on any particular day and just not get paid for it (that's how weekends were created)

Medieval bosses (i.e. land-owners) were responsible for feeding their workers for the day with breakfast and lunch.

Usually lunch during field work was followed by a customary 2-3 hours nap.