re: #160 Teukka

Nutty nationalism:

“…Why has Antoly Fomenko devoted the last four decades of his life to correlating lists of kings in an effort to prove that there’s only a quarter of as much history as you think there is? Is he just insane? Well, yes, almost certainly. But there’s an important aspect to his thesis that I haven’t mentioned yet. You see, one of the implications of all this chronological rejiggerin’ is that apparently the dominant power in Europe and Asia for most of human history was a Slavic-Turkic Empire he calls the “Russian Horde”.

Ah. I see.

There was never any Mongol conquest of Russia. Instead, Genghis Khan was a Russian, as were the Scythians, Huns, Goths, Ukrainians, Cossacks and pretty much every other Steppe tribe he can find ever mentioned in history. Moscow was the Third Rome, following after Alexandria and Constantinople. Under the reign of Genghis Khan (who’s founding of the Horde inspired the story of Romulus and Remus apparently) the Russian Horde spread out across the world.”
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“…I don’t think I need to bother “debunking” this. It’s an attempt to rewrite world history into a Russian ultra-nationalist fever dream, based off of some correlated star charts and lists of monarchs. It makes no effort to even engage with 90% of historical evidence. In 2004 his English publisher announced a $10,000 prize for anyone who could prove the existence of a human artifact from before 1000 AD, so long as they didn’t use “archaeological, dendrochronological, paleographical and carbon methods.” Sure, why not guys. Fomenko embodies two stereotypes perfectly: the scientist who decides to try and impose his own methods on other disciplines to “solve” their problems and the nationalist who miraculously discovers that all of human history actually revolves around his own country…”
https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2021/04/03/the-glorious-stupidity-of-fomenkos-new-chronology/