If you remember history, there was a guy who attacked Sweden, unprovoked [1]. Who ended beating the crap out of the Swedish army at Poltava, and marked the begi

If you remember history, there was a guy who attacked Sweden, unprovoked [1]. Who ended beating the crap out of the Swedish army at Poltava, and marked the beginning of the modern Russian Empire. I'm not sure what spin this was given to Russian kids in the history class to qualify it as defensive war. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_War