Can you hear the drums, Orlando?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimea%3A_The_Last_Crusade
Tolstoy and Young Stalin synchronicities!
the pretext needed by the new Tsar Alexander to force it through against the reluctant landowners.
INTERVIEWER: The war left Russia with a resentment and suspicion towards the west. Is that right?
ORLANDO FIGES: It did - and this was a powerful factor in Russian attitudes towards the West which continues to this day. There was a strong sense of betrayal by the West which - for the first time in history - had sided with a Muslim power (the Ottoman Empire) against a Christian one (Russia). I think that this sense of resentment fed into the pan-Slav nationalism of the Russians in the later nineteenth century. It is there today in the Russian sense of Western 'double standards' that makes Russian nationalists like Putin so mistrustful of the West. The Tsar Nicholas I is admired by the Putinite regime - because he stood up to the West in defence of Russia's interests
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