philosophy

Yes, by the way. We have a concentric system of education. That is why history repeats itself. And the most interesting part is that while no one actually knows it, everyone considers themselves an expert in it. Even fewer understand history. They are always looking for "good guys" and "bad guys." But in history, there are neither. There are facts. There are trends. There are connections and prerequisites. But there are no judgments.

P.S. So much has been fabricated about the Mongol "yoke." Yet no one considers that:
1 - The Mongol population was only 200 thousand, up to 1 million including neighboring nomadic tribes. And their maximum (total) army was around 250 thousand. Only about 80-100 thousand came to Rus. Moreover, they weren't heading for Rus, but to Hungary; it just so happened that the southern Russian princes clashed with the Mongols, and this was the result.
2 - The word "yoke" was first used in the sense of "oppression" in the 17th century, when the Zaporozhians complained that life was hard under the rule of the Russian Tsar.