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Originally posted by Blue Jeans
Wait...what??? They killed thousands of Russians and raped thousands of women on their way
And also many Russians have Asian/Turkic features and genes because of it
Russia was also thrown centuries behind because of Mongols. Rus' was like the top country in Europe (and in the world) before the Mongols came
How did they help??
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This is common myth. Russia wasn't culturaly superior to western europe prior to Mongol invasion.
Everything good Rus had was thanks to Byzantine. They basically introduced civilization to backward slavic tribes that repeteadly invaded Thrace and besiged constantinople multiple times.
Tamerlane(mongol descendant) also helped Europe two times. He destroyed Golden Horde and defeated Ottoman sultan that was terrorizing the Byzantine at that time.