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TheRed_Knight t1_itu0y36 wrote

Reply to comment by FollowingSome3237 in TIL The European 30 Years' War 1618 - 1648 began with Czech nobles throwing two Habsburg governors out of Prague castle window onto a huge dungheap. The corresponding carnage - fought over the issue of religious freedom following the Protestant Reformation - left millions dead. by Royal_Bumblebee_

RIP Gustavus Adolphus, the Lion of the North

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24benson t1_itulio1 wrote

yeah, burning and pillaging my home town, raping the girls and killing the men by force feeding them excrements. A true gentleman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwedentrunk

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Rest in peace my ass.

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smalltowngrappler t1_ituzzx2 wrote

That was most likely German mercenaries under Swedish pay actually, only around 10% of the Swedish army were Swedes/Finns. So your own countrymen were probably the ones pillaging, raping, torturing and murdering their fellow Germans.

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24benson t1_itv18qc wrote

Doesn't make it better for Gustav Adolf, does it?

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smalltowngrappler t1_itv7jo1 wrote

I mean he died like two years into the involvement of the Swedish army and they stayed involved for 16 years after that so more than likley it was the commanders after him that might have perpetrated it.

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Ghost652 t1_ituuq5i wrote

I did NOT know Swedes were so into inflation. Also that's damn horrific.

Would you rather get Schwedentrunk'd or Scaphism'd?

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1945BestYear t1_ity2ztd wrote

That's unfortunately what war has been for most of human history, and still is in some parts of the world. Today in developed and democratic countries, soldiers are in most ways like any other kind of employee in the public sector; they get paid decently or even well and the state, which is answerable to civilians who care about human life even if it's on the 'other' side, has extensive power to punish them if they break the rules. In times like the Thirty Years War, you often even need to let your soldiers loot, rape, and pillage just to keep your army intact; that is how you're repaying them for risking their lives for your cause.

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