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  Not the modern states, but German and Russian identities are much older than the modern states
context: HR department at German intelligence unit is very busy with all the new job applications >
  
  Welcome back to classic Russian encroachment Germany, Russia still hates you apparently for the time you tried to invade them 600 years ago, again in 1918 before Russia pulled out of WW1 and again in WW2 during Operation Barborossa >
  
  Germany was formed in the late 19th century. Russia as a country has existed since 1991. What 600 years ago, are we talking crusades again? The Teutonic Order against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which was not Russian by the by. Trying to make it sound like "Germany invaded Russia 600 years ago" is some revisionist bullcrap. Perhaps Russians entertain ideas like that. >
  
  For the people who don't read the link: first recorded conflict dates back to the 13th century.  Teutonic Knights took land in the Baltics.  Prince Alexander Nevsky defeated them at the Battle of the Ice in 1242.
  More than 600 years ago. >
  
  Yes but not Germany and not Russia at all.