King Charles XII died on November 30th 1718 and marked the end of Sweden's age of great power.It used to be a day of national veneration with torch marches through Stockholm, but today it's only a few nationalist groups that still arrange marches.Have your country's national history been forgotten and neglected by its people as well?
>>217211289Was Sweden really a great power? I think that's an absurd exaggeration. True great powers don't go into irrelevance so easily after losing a single battle.
>>217211289Is this AI slop?
>>217211289>loses one battle against russia>spends the rest of his life running from and fighting everyone but them while half of his "empire" gets occupiedGreat king you got there
Inaccurate hairline/forehead shape. Plus there was no finasteride or accutane back then so he'd be even more chopped. Post the real pic of him Sven.
>>217211321they are great power because of swedish army, it's wouldnt last long because their population is tiny. its going down either way even without poltava
>>217211427So they were not a great power. Having a good army alone doesn't make it a great power. There's more to it than just that.
>>217211464>Having a good army alone doesn't make it a great power.Prussian subhumans did that because they've had homo fag luck while Swedes had virgin autism.
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>>217211321Wasn't Sweden part of the winner Thirty Years' War. It indeed made them great power
>>217211427>it's wouldnt last long because their population is tiny.Prussia somehow became a great power, although in the seven yars' war they lost their entire army a couple of times (afaik), but still somehow managed to recruit a new one
>>217211464habsburg was great power at the times, and they fuck them up with militery might alone though. It's hard to define great power, but they certainly influence the course of history
>>217211520200% Bavarian phenotype.
>>217211562because of retarded prussiaboo russian king
>>217211622That's right
>>217211321it was more like a dozen battles, besides russia also lost one battle and had their entire army destroyed, and couldn't do much for 10 years. Sweden was in the same position after Poltava.
>>217212280So maybe Russia was also not a great power? I think we could narrow it down to France and the UK
>>217211289>>King Charles XII died on November 30th >>1718 and marked the end of Sweden's age of >>great power.In fact, it's not so important what's written in letters, sometimes it's more important what you believe and what you know.
>>217211289>It used to be a day of national veneration with torch marches through Stockholm, but today it's only a few nationalist groups that still arrange marches.Was it an official holiday? The German Empire had the Day of Sedan (commemoration of the Battle of Sedan 1870 where the german army defeated the french and caputured the french emperpor) as a public holiday naturally this celebration was abolished with the Weimar Republic. But private celebrations still occured.>>217211321Yes and it was a steady decline. The Kingdom of Sweden held territory in northern Germany until 1815. But during the 17th century Sweden influenced much of northern Europe.
>become king of Sweden at 16 (the great northern power and arguably the most well oiled army in all of Europe at the time, consistently crushing everyone even when outnumbered which was most of the time)>Show up to his coronation with the crown already on his head because God had already chosen him to be king>giga religious>complete military autist>completely abdicated all drinking after pushing and killing the court bear out of the window while shit faced>Russia, Poland and Denmark think they can gang up on Sweden cause he's just a 16 year old boy>Crushes them one by one>They surrender but he refuses to accept it because he sees their gang up as a betrayal (I think the king of Poland at the time was a relative of his but I can't remember)>He wants a crushing victory, no surrender, no peace talks, no negotiation + he loves to fight>Constantly on the frontlines, multiples close calls with death>Didn't worry about dying because God had already chosen the bullet that would kill him so why worry about it>One time got shot in the foot and showed no reaction in front of his men>Foot gets badly infected, on the brink of death, still demanded that his generals carry him on his bed around the battlefield to give orders and be close to the action (pic related)
>>217213665>A series of bad decisions and bad luck bog down his war against Russia>Marches his exhausted army all the way to the Ottomans to seek refuge>Stays there for a few years>Eventually the Ottomans realize this nigga ain't leaving any time soon and start getting annoyed>get in fights with the Ottomans over minor shit>Eventually march all the way to Sweden to rebuild the war effort>In Germany comes across a random Swedish fort under attack>This fort is of no importance, still decides to stay and fight just for the love of the game>returns to Sweden for the first time in 14 years (yes, 14 years of war)>decides to resume the war effort by taking some land from Norway>Scouting a fortress in the trenches, up close and dirty with the soldiers just like he liked it>generals kept telling him that was no place for a king but he never listened>gets shot out of nowhere in the head and dies instantly>never married, no kids and no known romantic or sexual relationshipsi'll spend the day harassing Russians online in the honor of one of Europe's great men
>>217211520A literal inbred cretin.
>>217213696Fun fact: all the soldiers were French figurants
>>217211289>Have your country's national history been forgotten and neglected by its people as well?It's like that everywhere in Europe, anon. Why we do this? No idea. I don't get where the white self-hatred comes from. What does it mean to be Dutch these days? I couldn't tell you. I feel estranged.
