• PugJesus@piefed.socialOPM
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    5 days ago

    Explanation: Poland was long-Catholic, but Lithuania was one of the last pagan holdouts in Europe. For this reason, a crusade was undertaken by the Teutonic Knights (of horned helmets fame) to convert Lithuania… BY THE SWORD!

    Poland, however, managed to convince Lithuania to convert mostly-peaceably instead, and formed the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. This did not stop the Teutonic Order’s wars which involved mass plundering and total conquest of the Baltic. Curious! Wars, naturally, ensued with the Commonwealth, which the Teutonic Order eventually lost.

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    4 days ago

    “So, some guys from the west wanted to make Lithuania Christian… but there was this Duke, so there was this fight, and so they stayed pagan. Then the other dukes were arguing.”

    As far as I can tell if you just repeat that same paragraph like 30 times it’s an acceptable explanation of like 600 years of Lithuanian history.