May 29, 1453: Jihad Carnage and the Fall of Christian Constantinople

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Painting by Theofilos Hatzimihail (d. 1934)

Extracts from my “The Legacy of Jihad,” (2005/2008) pp. 616-618:

[Both Turkish and Christian chroniclers provide graphic evidence of the wanton pillage and slaughter of non-combatants following the Ottoman jihad conquest of Constantinople in 1453. First from the Turkish sources]:

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“Sultan Mehmed (in order to) arouse greater zeal for the way of God issued an order (that the city was to be) plundered. And from all directions they (gazis) came forcefully and violently (to join) the army. They entered the city, they passed the infidels over the sword (i.e. slew them) and…they pillage and looted, they took captive the youths and maidens, and they took theirgoods and valuables whatever there was of them…” [Urudj]

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“The gazis [jihadists] entered the city, cut off the head of the emperor, captured Kyr Loukas and his family…and they slew the miserable common people..They placed people and families in chains and placed metal rings on their necks.” [Neshri]

[Speros Vryonis, Jr. has summarized the key contents of letters sent by Sultan Mehmed himself to various Muslim potentates of the Near East]:

“In his letter to the sultan of Egypt, Mehmed writes that his army killed many of the inhabitants, enslaved many others (those that remained), plundered the treasures of the city, ‘cleaned out’ the priests and took over the churches…To the Sherif of Mecca he writes that they killed the ruler of Constantinople, they killed the “pagan” inhabitants and destroyed their houses. The soldiers smashed the crosses, looted the wealth and properties and enslaved their children and youths. ‘They cleared these places of their monkish filth and Christian impurity’…In yet another letter he informs Cihan Shah Mirza of Iran that the inhabitants of the city have become food for the swords and arrows of the gazis; that they plundered their children, possessions and houses; that those men and women who survived the massacre were thrown into chains.”

 

[The Christian sources, include this narrative by Ducas who gathered eyewitness accounts, and visited Constantinople shortly after its conquest]:

“(Then) the Turks arrived at the church [the great church of St. Sophia], pillaging, slaughtering, and enslaving. They enslaved all those that survived. They smashed the icons in the church, took their adornments as well as all that was moveable in the church…Those of (the Greeks) who went off to their houses were captured before arriving there. Others upon reaching their houses found them empty of children, wives, and possessions and before (they began) wailing and weeping were themselves bound with their hands behind them. Others coming to their houses and having found their wife and children being led off, were tied and bound with their most beloved…They (the Turks) slew mercilessly all the elderly, both men and women, in (their) homes, who were not able to leave their homes because of illness or old age. The newborn infants were thrown into the streets…And as many of the (Greek) aristocrats and nobles of the officials of the palace that he (Mehmed) ransomed, sending them all to the “speculator” he executed them. He selected their wives and children, the beautiful daughters and shapely youths and turned them over to the head eunuch to guard them, and the remaining captives he turned over to others to guard over them…And the entire city was to be seen in the tents of the army, and the city lay deserted, naked, mute, having neither form nor beauty.”

[From the contemporary 15th century historian Critobulus of Imbros:]

“Then a great slaughter occurred of those who happened to be there: some of them were on the streets, for they had already left the houses and were running toward the tumult when they fell unexpectedly on the swords of the soldiers; others were in their own homes and fell victims to the violence of the Janissaries and other soldiers, without any rhyme or reason; others were resisting relying on their own courage; still others were fleeing to the churches and making supplication- men, women, and children, everyone, for there was no quarter given…The soldiers fell on them with anger and great wrath…Now in general they killed so as to frighten all the City, and terrorize and enslave all by the slaughter.”

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livingengine
livingengine
6 years ago

So, why did they do it? Why destroy a thousand year old civilization? Well, to listen to this presentation from Islamicity, it had something vaguely to do with the Byzantines not treating Christians right. But mostly they did it because Muhammad said they should.
https://islamiclegacy.org/index.php/features/constantinople

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
6 years ago
Reply to  livingengine

Do not know all on your link, but you may enjoy these

Just anoth point The Doge of Venice was trading with Muslim Egypt and did not want his trade spoilt and had notified the Muslm leader of pending attack

Pope John Paul II apoligises for Fouth Crusade sacking Constantinople. That was Roman Catholic against Orthodox Constantinople
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/1465857/Pope-says-sorry-for-crusaders-rampage-in-1204.html

Siege of Constaninople
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wFUU1hd1XLQ

The buildings of Constantinople
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JzZp-qAYCZg

1204 Sack of Constantinople, St Marks Square Venice
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-NIM8dqXA-s

Battle Map of Constantinople attack
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ2T9HNCUTQ

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6 years ago


More modern day examples are just as barbaric that vividly define ISLAM and it’s TEACHINGS !!!
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jimmimac
jimmimac
6 years ago

as a Greek American I am disgusted with the way heathens here in America support these moslem parasites who want to destroy our nation like they did Greece and think they can befriend rattlesnakes!!

Chester Cheesewright
Chester Cheesewright
6 years ago
Reply to  jimmimac

► The greeks will never recover Turkey, Bozo. Never

So suçk it up and move on to some other place.

If you’re feeling restless, maybe you could volunteer to help the Serbs or something

jimmimac
jimmimac
6 years ago

I never expect Greece to recover what was once theirs, I already served my country, what is your problem? So suck it up! where do get such disgusting non sense unless you happen to be one of those who support the evil Islamic culture! I do not support these evil parasites, if that bothers you BE BOTHERED!

Chester Cheesewright
Chester Cheesewright
6 years ago
Reply to  jimmimac

► Oh yeah? How many gooks did you kill, and for what President?

jimmimac
jimmimac
6 years ago

I see your reference to gooks, I see you think you are free because of some thing no one ever did for you, well wake up gonzo! your free because of me and millions more like me, if that bothers you maybe you can move to Canada with all those left leaning cowards you seem to emulate!!!!

hbs
hbs
6 years ago

Get lost troll.

Chester Cheesewright
Chester Cheesewright
6 years ago
Reply to  hbs

► Thank you for your suggestion

Now run along and suçk on some Jew åss

kostas.lacon
kostas.lacon
6 years ago

With all my respect to your falseprophet … go to s uck his a ss .

Yukan Farkov
Yukan Farkov
6 years ago

Troll with the Wind.

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
6 years ago

Obviously you are nothing more than a half-baked half-wit.

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Daniellejleopold
6 years ago
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joc22D
joc22
6 years ago
Reply to  jimmimac

Yeah they really do believe that they can appease them. They will realize their follies when it is to late as they watch they friends, neighbors and families arrested an either forced to except the laws and ways of Allah or be put to death

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
6 years ago
Reply to  joc22

We can only hope that sanity eventually prevails, but Trump needs to wake up to this horrible mess, get organized and stop the rot. Will it take another 9/11 for rage to occur? When Constantinople finally fell in 1453 after hundreds of years of Muslim and other efforts to defeat it, it was a mere shadow of the great city it once was, years earlier ravaged by a plague that killed half the population. When Mehmed II arrived with 80,000 or more troops, there were only about 15,000 defenders and the city had only about 50,000 inhabitants. Of course afterwards Mehmed II invaded south-east Europe where Vlad Tsepis, Count Dracula, impaled Muslims by the thousands. When Mehmed’s Ottoman Muslims’ nerve broke at that sight of their ‘buddies’ impaled in Tsepi’s deserted city, hey fled south, but Tsepis followed them and slaughtered the bastards in night attacks.

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Sergio Hayes
6 years ago
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Chester Cheesewright
Chester Cheesewright
6 years ago

► Gosh

Gee whiz

We ought to ally ourselves with every thieving Jew in occupied territory now

jimmimac
jimmimac
6 years ago

what occupied territory If you read history Israel has always belonged to the Israeli people, it was over run by the parasites of Islam in the 11th century that does not give them the right to own the land Israeli’s are living in, it is theirs!

Chester Cheesewright
Chester Cheesewright
6 years ago
Reply to  jimmimac

► Uh, occupied territory ain’t all theirs yet, Bozo

They still got a few million people to run off

Robinske2
Robinske2
6 years ago

When you wet your bed, do you clean up or does your mommy clean them for you?

jimmimac
jimmimac
6 years ago

you are real good at name calling, how about this duffis tell me why and how they plan to run off and who these millions are before China destroys Islam!

Chester Cheesewright
Chester Cheesewright
6 years ago
Reply to  jimmimac

► Thanks for the Information

Chester Cheesewright
Chester Cheesewright
6 years ago
Reply to  jimmimac

► Yes, that’s right Shlomo

You can have my land too

Grant Woodside
Grant Woodside
6 years ago
Reply to  jimmimac

No it has not,,,if you read history you will find that in 1250 BCE
The Israelites invaded Canaan, destroying the city of Jericho, which was the oldest city in the region with the greatest cultural legacy.
Canaan, also known as​ Phoenicia, consisted roughly of
Present day Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Israel

jimmimac
jimmimac
6 years ago
Reply to  Grant Woodside

if you read the bible god told them to destroyy Canaan, so what is it you are not seeing? Israel is the mortgage holder of Israel! Canaan is Lebanon!

hmmmm
hmmmm
6 years ago

Go read your history, retard. The entire middle east is non-muslim land, that muslims robbed, or “thieved” per your parlance.

jimmimac
jimmimac
6 years ago
Reply to  hmmmm

at least you know your history, that is what he does not seem to understand, Islam is all about stealing what does not belong to them because they are nothing but low life thieves and trash!

Chester Cheesewright
Chester Cheesewright
6 years ago
Reply to  hmmmm

► Oh for Pete’s sake. Except for the occasional crusade and the odd Jew “settlement” here and there, the ME has been 90% Moslem for 1300 years

kostas.lacon
kostas.lacon
6 years ago

Middle East was Christian and greekspeaking at the byzantine times … I think also that Jerusalem is the birth place of Christianity !
Go back to the arabic desert muslim scum.

Chester Cheesewright
Chester Cheesewright
6 years ago
Reply to  kostas.lacon

► Oh wow

I didn’t know that

How can we fix it again you dumb shït?

I’m all ears

Erica Ling
Erica Ling
6 years ago

Possibly, but is there any original thought between them ?

Chester Cheesewright
Chester Cheesewright
6 years ago

► Sure they do, and they need you just as bad as they need somebody to fuçk over

jimmimac
jimmimac
6 years ago

no they do not, you are obviously a coward who never wore the uniform of the US or even fired a rifle so stop talking like you are to precious to be ignored, you are not!!

katzkiner
katzkiner
6 years ago

The Jews in the middle east are the most shot at people on earth.
Personally, I’d leave them alone.
Do you know the USA has enough airweapons stored in Israel to fight and win WWIII?
We call it “forward deployed”.
You do not want to kick THAT hornet’s nest.
I’d tread lightly.

Erica Ling
Erica Ling
6 years ago

No doubt about your perspective, then. Sad.

Robinske2
Robinske2
6 years ago

This was the fate of countless cities and towns that were unfortunate enough to be conquered by Islamic Jihadists. The same tactics are still being employed by Jihadist soldiers in the 21 st century wherever Islamic forces feel strong enough to attack.

Chester Cheesewright
Chester Cheesewright
6 years ago
Reply to  Robinske2

► So Constantinople fell in 1453. So what?

Don’ t you know this lady is jerking you off?

tomtillapaugh
tomtillapaugh
6 years ago

You are a strange fellow. You obviously got up on the wrong side of the bed.

Chester Cheesewright
Chester Cheesewright
6 years ago
Reply to  tomtillapaugh

► Are you Sirius? What kind of dumb broad gets up in the morning and tells you Constantinople fell in 1453¿

Erica Ling
Erica Ling
6 years ago

Perhaps this site -articles are just a tad too serious and thought provoking for you ? You may not be a fan of PG’s, but that ” dumb broad’s” mental acuity can see off most pseudo intellectuals .btw did you know about Clark Gable and Billy Haines ?

Erica Ling
Erica Ling
6 years ago

Oh dear. Shame history is no longer taught in our schools. Constantinople was the richest, largest city in Europe in the 12th. century. Once there were two Christian Empires–Roman in the West, Byzantine in the East.After the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century, Byzantium took their old Med. coast, Italy, North Africa and held them for 200 years. It was the epicentre of trade, arts, culture, science, East met West. It held spiritual power and wealth besides which Dubai etc. are just tawdry bling. Hence the devastation in 1453 was not just the destruction of one insignificant city, but of an Empire, of Christianity being defeated by Islam,of a light being extinguished. Rather like a premonition of the fate which will befall us. Shows first impressions can be so deceptive, when we met on another PG article.

Chester Cheesewright
Chester Cheesewright
6 years ago
Reply to  Erica Ling

► That’s one perspective. Another is that the Greek legacy languished in the Byzantine era, and Arabs revived interest in it and carried it to western Europe through Spain

Besides, what’s the point of this article recalling a six century old war? there’s literally no habitable place on Earth that has not violently changed hands many times over – usually countless times.

Erica Ling
Erica Ling
6 years ago

A warning from the past, omen for our future ?

AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
6 years ago

They knocked down the walls using a cannon built by a European.

The strategic cause of defeat was infighting within, just like today. They scarcely noticed the invaders until it was too late.

livingengine
livingengine
6 years ago

Kind of reminds me of Israel. Destruction of the Jewish civilization is also on Islam’s bucket list, and the Muslims are getting a lot of help doing that from the Europeans.

kostas.lacon
kostas.lacon
6 years ago

Thank you for this memorial .
Today in Erdogan’s Turkey they are not less barbarians… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjBSBo2X3vE

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
6 years ago

Our past, our present, and our future. … The destruction of Eastern Rome / Greek Rome / or Byzantium (whatever you want to call it) was the spark that led to the eventual success of the West – and most of the West’s problems arise from it as well.

We are not willing to end it. None of our ‘tribes’ have the will to fight for our heritage while there is still time.

This is why it is so essential for Americans to keep fighting – and to search for an antidote to Libtardism. If we cannot even talk about the problem, we cannot educate (red pill) enough drones to organize an actual resistance.

(And yes – ‘resistance’ is a joke – as the Left resists us – as if shooting the firemen will stop their house from burning down.)

katzkiner
katzkiner
6 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

Americans are sitting on go.
The Saudi bought & paid off media and bureaucrats can spin all the “islamaphobia” BS they please.
Americans are locked & loaded .
We have no use for islam, the lying politicians or the media.
We know the whores are in bed together.
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katzkiner
katzkiner
6 years ago

There’s a new way of war-it is sanitary.
No swords, no slaves, no rob, rape and pillage.
That’s why they pretend to be refugees.
Dumb Westerners think because they come unarmed it is safe to bring them in.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
How do you conquer in the nuclear age?
With a rubber raft.
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Rocinante44
Rocinante44
6 years ago
Reply to  katzkiner

amen. it is obvious to many, but not western military leaders who are fighting yesterday’s wars, but warfare in the 21st century will be fought by unarmed hoardes pouring across the borders of western civilization taking advantage of the modern, soft version of Christianity where we provide charity and turn the other cheek. well guess what, that will get us all killed. we need to acknowledge that muslims are enemies, make war on them, and return to the WW2 version of Christianity which was to make war so horrible for our enemies that they quit trying to kill us, and to execute their evil leaders. pretty simple. elect me president and TSA lines at the airport disappear within a year

tomtillapaugh
tomtillapaugh
6 years ago
Reply to  katzkiner

True. NATO was made for overt obvious wars to be fought between two enemies occupying two different spaces. It will not work for the upcoming upheaval.

Mary Seres
Mary Seres
6 years ago

They couldn’t have done that, those that are in that peaceful religion? you surely jest?
This is probably the worlds worst and most violent religion ever on the face of the earth.
Totally demonic in origin to this day…

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
6 years ago

THE APOLOGY OF THE POPE TO THE ORTHODOX; THE 4th. CRUSADE OF 1204.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1127107/posts

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
6 years ago

“But, meanwhile, the Venetians were up to intrigue of their own. They by no means wanted a crusading army attacking Egypt, which would cut off their lucrative trading centers there. So, while still negotiating w/ the French crusaders, Venetian envoys were in Cairo making even more favorable concessions. In an agreement signed in April of 1202 –only 2 months before the launch of the Crusade –the Venetians promised Sultan al-Adil that the crusaders would never reach Egypt”

http://catholicbridge.com/orthodox/crusade_sacking_constantinopole.php

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
6 years ago

Siege of Constaninople
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wFUU1hd1XLQ

The buildings of Constantinople
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JzZp-qAYCZg

1204 Sack of Constantinople, St Marks Square Venice
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-NIM8dqXA-s

Battle Map of Constantinople attack
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ2T9HNCUTQ

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
6 years ago

Venice did not help with the Fourth Crusade. The Muslims would have been waiting for the Crusaders. I am sure Pope Innocent III knew, that Venice announced the attack. The Crusafers would have bern dead with waiting Muslims

“But, meanwhile, the Venetians were up to intrigue of their own. They by no means wanted a crusading army attacking Egypt, which would cut off their lucrative trading centers there. So, while still negotiating w/ the French crusaders, Venetian envoys were in Cairo making even more favorable concessions. In an agreement signed in April of 1202 –only 2 months before the launch of the Crusade –the Venetians promised Sultan al-Adil that the crusaders would never reach Egypt”

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
6 years ago

How many been to Venice and seen St Marks, full of sacked Constantinople.

The Fourth Crusaders, raped, killed many in sacking Constantinople

1204 Sack of Constantinople, St Marks Square Venice John Romer
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-NIM8dqXA-s

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
6 years ago

Doge of Venice would have reported back to Muslim Egypt that Orthodox Constantinople waa sacked, Muslims would have then put together a force to take Constantinople

Pope Innonocent III did not send help when Constantine XI pleaded for help

Eastern Roman Empire destroyed and the Pope rubs his hand as Europes Wealth now roles into the Popes Hands

Pope Innonocent IIi

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
6 years ago

While the Pope Innonocent III did not send help he was more worried about King John signing the Magna Carta that would strip the Catholic Church of power over the people

The Pope cancels the Magna Carta (1215)
http://www.concordatwatch.eu/showtopic.php?org_id=889&kb_header_id=41481

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
6 years ago

All this would not have happened if Pope Innonocent III did not put together the Fourth Crusade, that ended up sacking, weakening Orthodox Constantinople

Think of the millions have died from Constantinople, Armenian Genocide, We may not have had WW1 and as 2 Germany would not have had the Bosnian Muslims, Turkey Muslims to help Hitler

Rocinante44
Rocinante44
6 years ago

the crusades were a good and noble thing. don’t let the democrat-muslim media brainwash you. you don’t want to live in a muslim country

zahbudda
zahbudda
6 years ago

The Ottoman Turks did the same thing to Jerusalem…35,000 Jews and Christians killed and left to rot in the streets!…Mark Twain wrote about it!….

Grant Woodside
Grant Woodside
6 years ago
Reply to  zahbudda

Innocents Abroad, I think that is the book you​ are referring to
(I could be mistaken, he wrote many books)
Started in 1867, was more of a travel book than anything
There is no mention that I know of about 35000 Jews and Christians
Being killed and left to rot in the streets

Here is a quote from Mark Twain
“It is my hope that both the Christians​ and the Jews will be damned;
And to that end I am working all my influence. Help me pray…”
Mark Twain goes on to say, he would choose Jews over Christians
He goes on to say…”Christianity has deluged the world with blood and tears……
From a letter to Henry Rogers, 26 July 1898

Mark Twain has also said, Concerning the Jews, 1896(a short essay)
“The Jew is a money getter; and in getting his money he is a very serious obstruction to less capable neighbors who are on the same quest.”
Mark Twain suggested the Jews were not persecuted over religion
But because of their passion and brilliance for business

zahbudda
zahbudda
6 years ago
Reply to  Grant Woodside

It was Damascus!….In “Innocents Abroad,” 1869, which established his reputation as a writer, Mark Twain described Syria under the Ottoman Turkish Empire: “Then we called at the tomb of Mahomet’s children and at … the mausoleum of the five thousand Christians who were massacred in Damascus in 1861 by the Turks. They say those narrow streets ran blood for several days, and that men, women and children were butchered indiscriminately and left to rot by hundreds all through the Christian quarter; they say, further, that the stench was dreadful. All the Christians who could get away fled from the city, and the Mohammedans would not defile their hands by burying the ‘infidel dogs.’ The thirst for blood extended to the high lands of Hermon and Anti-Lebanon, and in a short time twenty-five thousand more Christians were massacred and their possessions laid waste. …”

Grant Woodside
Grant Woodside
6 years ago
Reply to  zahbudda

OK, I found the section of the book you quote from
Twain did not see such things himself
The number of 35000 lying dead and rotting in streets
From you original post was very misleading
(Unintentionally I am sure)
Probably why I did not remember seeing it in the book
I do not doubt the stories are true
The way I understand the book is as 2 horrific events
One in a town and another mass murderer in the countryside
Thank-you for reminding me of the book and it’s relevance even today, I will have to read it again.
(Just to see what would happen I had a few minutes of spare time and read,………..
Page 573 is extremely good, sums up the world of religion
Scary part is, nothing has changed since Twain’s time

zahbudda
zahbudda
6 years ago
Reply to  Grant Woodside

You bet!… Nothing has changed…still Jihad..and the Way of the Sword!…I liked what Twain had to say about the diminutive size of Jerusalem…that a man walking briskly could walk all the way around it …in an hour!

Grant Woodside
Grant Woodside
6 years ago
Reply to  zahbudda

“mass murder in the countryside…”

Timothy
Timothy
6 years ago

Sad isn’t it that history is repeating itself all over again. The current leaders and the EU know full what they’ve done, it was deliberate and intentional. The same applies to America. Obama and Bush before him knew full well what was going to happen and fomented it. See, Obama, Hillary and many others here in America hate Christianity and Judaism. Obama and Hillary outright called then defamatory names. Trumps trying to stop any and all Muslims from coming into America before there is another major terrorist attack and its results in some seriously deadly Civil conflict. Its really kinda started already in a very serious verbal conflict which if its not resolved will result in bullets and bombs, the burning of mosques and anything having to do with Islam. I’ll and many millions more Americans won’t allow Islam to spread and take over America.

Al Patriot
Al Patriot
6 years ago

No One Ever READS the English version of the Quran. You LIBERAL SNAKES Are Going To Have The SAME HISTORICAL Sequence As The Europeans and Mediterraneans …..!!! Sharia Law: is a Way of LIFE FOR THESE RELIGIOUS SNAKES …..!!! Look On YOUTUBE: Islam: What America needs To Know …!!! … Get Off Your LAZY-ASSES before you Sacriface your neighbors …!!!

Tatiana Covington
Tatiana Covington
6 years ago

“Homo homini lupus est.”

And now they have plutonium…

Maybe people are a bad idea.

MerchantseamenD
Merchantseamen
6 years ago

WOW…sort of reminds me of my readings of the Japanese and German Military invasions of China in 1937-38. Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in 1941. Whole villages disappeared to the wanton slaughter of their inhabitants. Rape of the young and old females, The tossing of babies into the air and catching them on the bayonet. So the 30’s and 40’s were a repeat of 1453. Seems to me someone forgot to learn their history and was doomed to repeat it. I guess just 80 years after the start of World War II we are doomed to repeat history once again.

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