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In OTL, Russia wasn't considered very european by the western catholics, because of the religious difference among other things. And the region suffered some centuries from the islamic tatars incursion, who went as far as completely buren down Moscow.
Now what if the slavs didn't convert to Orthodox faith, and instead chose catholicism to get closer to european nations, or embrace Islam in order to avoid the Hordes raid and get support from various muslim actors, but face a much more hateful Europe, and probably som crusades (like the baltic ones).
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