The Latest Conspiracy: The Erasure of the Global Empire of Great Tartary

Mark Scofield
ILLUMINATION
Published in
6 min readApr 5, 2022

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I wanted to believe.

Great Tartary flag from wikimedia.org

When you think of Tartar, what comes to mind?

My first though was the popular fish sauce. Little did I know the rabbit (fish?) hole that one could descend down with that innocent sounding word and an internet connection.

I spent the greater part of Saturday flipping through YouTube videos

attempting to convince myself of the truth behind the latest conspiracy to catch the attention of those of us with half a brain (or less): the erasure of the Great Tartary Empire.

If you are unaware of the conspiracy circling YouTube, Reedit, and the internet in general,

then you are unlikely to have ever heard of the Great Tartary Empire. They are not, as I originally guessed, known for their fish sauce. In the objective real world that we all occupy, Tartary was the Western European name given to the region of Asia occupied by the ironically mostly landlocked Mongol Empire.

In real life, Tartary was generally central Eurasia stretching from Prussia through Serbia, occupying parts of Russia, China, Iran, as well as all…

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Mark Scofield
ILLUMINATION

Coming out of the shadows. No more pseudonym. Humans are designed to fail. I'm Exhibit A. Often writing semi-fictional history and autobiographical stories.