What are some ironic moments in history?

Brutus, famous for killing Julius Caesar, was descended from another Brutus.

The first Brutus pretended to be mentally handicapped so as to survive the King of Rome's paranoid purges, until the time was right that he could reveal he was not in fact retarded and stage a coup to found the Roman Republic.

His descendant, the more famous Brutus, was actually retarded and pretended to not be so he could murder Julius Caesar, an event that lead to the founding of the Roman Empire.

Tsar Alexander II who was favorable to liberal reform was assassinated by political revolutionaries only to be replaced by Alexander III who totally reversed those policies and cracked down on those groups.

>>2233391
Ironic, isn't it?

>>2233379
The third Reich was taken down by the allies only for Merkel's Reich to be installed with the support of the same people

>>2233379

The Nazis, who at least claimed to be trying to save Europe from the Bolshevik USSR, managed to get the Soviets to expand wildly, something they hadn't done since 1922; first by promising them a good chunk of Europe and non-interference if they annexed places like the Baltic States, eastern Poland, or Bessarabia, and then by attacking them and losing.

>>2233379
>Mongols attack modern day Ukraine
>enslave little boy
>sell little boy to Arabs
>Arabs turn him into Mamluk
>he becomes the main Mamluk
>Mongols try to take out Arabs
>he BTFO the Mongols so hard that they never recover
>goes back to Egypt
>kills sultan
>becomes arguably the greatest leader in Egyptian history, forever known as "The Father of Conquest"

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>>2233391
But is this true tho?

Germany conspired october revolution.

>>2233513
Who are you talking about?

>>2233410

They also generated a strong, anti-nationalist backlash across Western Europe which eventually resulted in the rise of left wing governments and multiculturalism.

>>2233545
Baibars

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>>2233410

Evidence seems to suggest that the USSR was building a large military in preparation for an invasion of Western Europe. If the conflict in France had been as bloody as Stalin and the Communists hoped then they would have invaded Europe as the aggressors. It's also likely that had Germany and the West remained demilitarized, while they built up their military, they also would have invaded.

>>2233379

1000 year reich... barly over a thousand days

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The entire 4th crusade