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* [[False Friend]]: The nations opposing the Knights tend to remember them as such. Theirs' and the Knights' versions of the same deals not matching each other and stuff. |
* [[False Friend]]: The nations opposing the Knights tend to remember them as such. Theirs' and the Knights' versions of the same deals not matching each other and stuff. |
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* [[Feudal Overlord]]: Of course. |
* [[Feudal Overlord]]: Of course. |
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* [[Everyone Calls Him Barkeep]]: Almost everywhere east of the [[Istanbul Not Constantinople|Oder/Odra]] river they're known as some variety of ''the Cross-Bearers''. |
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: Almost everywhere east of the [[Istanbul Not Constantinople|Oder/Odra]] river they're known as some variety of ''the Cross-Bearers''. |
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** In Russia and some other post-Soviet states, they are also known under the moniker "Dog-knights" (Псы-рыцари). This name springs from [[Joseph Stalin]] failing his history lessons and not recognizing a typo when the German word "Rittersbunde" (knight unions) was mistyped as "Rittershunde" (broken: knight dogs). Everyone in the USSR repeated the same mistake after him. |
** In Russia and some other post-Soviet states, they are also known under the moniker "Dog-knights" (Псы-рыцари). This name springs from [[Joseph Stalin]] failing his history lessons and not recognizing a typo when the German word "Rittersbunde" (knight unions) was mistyped as "Rittershunde" (broken: knight dogs). Everyone in the USSR repeated the same mistake after him. |
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* [[Expy]]: As explained above, they are frequently used, after Eisenstein, as [[A Nazi By Any Other Name|Nazis By Another Name]]. |
* [[Expy]]: As explained above, they are frequently used, after Eisenstein, as [[A Nazi By Any Other Name|Nazis By Another Name]]. |
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