lmao

    • HauntedBySpectacle [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      the conspiracy theory is called the phantom time hypothesis and it's supposedly a large chunk of the middle ages fabricated including charlemagne

          • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            It's very funny that they essentially are so similar, even with near identical "motive"

            The phantom time hypothesis is a historical conspiracy theory asserted by Heribert Illig. First published in 1991, it hypothesizes a conspiracy by the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, Pope Sylvester II, and possibly the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII,[further explanation needed] to fabricate the Anno Domini dating system retroactively, in order to place them at the special year of AD 1000, and to rewrite history[1] to legitimize Otto's claim to the Holy Roman Empire.

            The [Fomenkoist] theory further proposes that world history prior to AD 1600 has been widely falsified to suit the interests of a number of different conspirators including the Vatican, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Russian House of Romanov, all working to obscure the "true" history of the world centered around a global empire called the "Russian Horde".

            but the whole "Everything cool and good ever developed was actually thanks to the super Russians" aspect of Fomenkoism is :chefs-kiss: