Medieval Colonialism: The Danish Duchy Of Estonia
Were the motives behind the Baltic Crusades to convert pagan Estonia or to fill the tax coffers of the newly Christianized Danes?
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Were the motives behind the Baltic Crusades to convert pagan Estonia or to fill the tax coffers of the newly Christianized Danes?
Comrade 'Molotov,' whose cocktail game is actually quite weak, returns with his usual slanders to deliver an important history lesson that bears on our summer of possibly widespread electricity shortages and soaring utility rates. When it comes to energy, not only has our ruling class learned nothing from the example of Soviet planning, but their lies to us begin with lies to themselves: Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Order of Lenin, reporting
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