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My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts) Tue May 3, 2016, 08:18 AM May 2016

Prince Golytsin

In 1718, Tsarina Catherine’s favorite general, Prince Golytsin, led an army of a million men out from Moscow to drive the Turks into the sea, but without supplies, so that 400,000 starved to death without ever leaving Russian territory.

- Lords of the Horizon, Jason Godwin
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Prince Golytsin (Original Post) My Good Babushka May 2016 OP

Wow. sarge43 May 2016 #1

What a monumental fuck up. denbot May 2016 #2

sarge43

(28,941 posts)

1. Wow.

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Tue May 3, 2016, 01:43 PM

May 2016

In Russia, winter isn't coming; it never really leaves.

Might just understand Napoleon and Hitler not getting a handle on Russia's climate, but a Russian?!

denbot

(9,899 posts)

2. What a monumental fuck up.

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Tue May 3, 2016, 01:55 PM

May 2016

They must of chewed through the intervening countryside like locusts. One huge moving swarm of armed famine..

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