>>64359848
dunno. this sounds like some english centric version of events cooked up by british supremacists back in the victorian age. In reality hanseatic league was a loose trading organization that was predominantly teutonic-german. novgorod was part of the route but always their own thing as a eastern slavic city. The league faded as city states they were based in faded. When the kingdoms surrounding them, like scandinavian Sweden or prusso-teutonic Livonia strengthened
ivan the schizo burned and boiled novgorod alive because it was a direct, more civilzied competitor to its tzarist power in Muscovia. Much like Vald the imploder is trying to genocide ukraine today