I bumped into this ideaseveral weeks before. The idea is that we can read any kind of praise for monarchs and actually any leaders from sources contemrorary to them. They all are or may be clever, kind, wise etc. etc. Specially the famous people like Napoleon, Alexander, Hannibal, Stalin, Hitler etc. The problem is that most of these references may be just a propaganda. They may not be of course, but how can we know. So the idea was to use a very simple "measure of greatness" which is objective, is not subject to manipulation and can be easily calculated. It's how long the Empire this Great man created has survived after his death. And here we have:
Washington 1799 up to now =208 year.
Bolivar 1830 up to now =177 years
Genghis khan 1227 to 1368 =141 years
Stalin 1953 to 1990 =47 years
Alexander the Great one day
Hitler -1 day
Napoleon -6 years (-7 if you count from his first abdication)
As you may see Napoleon is not on the top of this list.
One may ask why I didn't include rulers like Alexander I or Friderick the Great. Because they didn't create the Empire, they inhereted it and passed it to their hears.
I would love to hear the reaction before the second part of the statement is included, so to be continued...
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General-Mayor Anton Valeryevich Kosyanenko
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