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For the same reason picrel are on red square, not eg Lenin or Rurik. Because every nation (and thus nation-state) needs a foundation myth, preferably of common origin if it's not a monarchy.

And these two united our people at one of our darkest hours, against an enemy that wanted to destroy not our physical body (like germans) but our very soul - slavism, orthodoxy, the russian language etc

Poland is the quintessential tatar yoke from the west, and even though we understand that modern Poland is essentially a different country, the myth of freedom through national unity lives on in this example. Maybe why