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It's time to abolish England (hexbear.net)

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Ireland, Wales, Cornwall and Scotland should be granted full independence and England should be divided up in several smaller countries all under a peacekeeping force.

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[-] FearsomeJoeandmac@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It was actually more likely picts and scoti they were fleeing from and those are most likely the "barbarians" described in groans of the Britain's.

The anglos were invited over by briton ruling class to push the picts and scoti out.

And soon became the ruling class themselves.

Even the english have majority native British blood, because the germanic warriors intermarried with local women. It's why the english are sometimes referred to as 'germanized celts'.

Honestly the dark ages is my favorite era or history so I'm obsessed with this stuff.

[-] newacctidk@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

So the same thing the Teutons tried to pull

[-] FearsomeJoeandmac@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Not familiar with the teutons. Did they try and exterminate most of the local men in the area they invaded, and then marry the local women? Because in a lot of england that's what the germanic invaders did.

Some are starting to think the anglo saxon invasion of Britain similar in some ways to the Spaniards and indigenous people in South America.

[-] newacctidk@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

They invaded the Baltics as part of a crusade, and very quickly got approval to just annex for themselves the part of Poland belonging to their host Konrad I who they had been hired to serve. They just kept doing this and eventually built a state. Essentially they formed to exterminate "pagans" in Prussia and defend western Poland, and then conquered the Catholic land anyways and then invaded further and further all the way to their wars with the Novgorod Republic.

For a not exactly accurate but important snapshot of how that turned out watch the Eisenstein film Alexander Nevsky which dramatizes the famous Battle of the Ice and has one of the best scores in film history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOgoGCP7Ujw It is such a blatant comparison to the Germans but it fucking works and goes HARD. They have soldiers wearing obvious stahlhelms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq4PaJfod4w