SYLOH@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agoWinter is perhaps the only time you can successfully invade Russia. Hitler and Napoleon invaded in the summer and failed. The Mongols invaded in the winter and won.message-squaremessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up14arrow-down1message-squareWinter is perhaps the only time you can successfully invade Russia. Hitler and Napoleon invaded in the summer and failed. The Mongols invaded in the winter and won.SYLOH@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square2fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarewithersailor@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoHow’d that work out for Napoleon and Hitler, just to name a couple. Found: https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Russia But can’t be arsed working out which started in winter vs which where destroyed by winter.
How’d that work out for Napoleon and Hitler, just to name a couple.
Found: https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Russia
But can’t be arsed working out which started in winter vs which where destroyed by winter.