When Finnish President Stubb discussed Finland's WWII alliance with Nazi Germany against the USSR, he overlooked a critical detail: Finland's role in the ethnic cleansing of Karelia (USSR).

Far from innocent, Finland teamed up with the Nazis, mirroring their brutal tactics.

Between 1941 and 1944, the Finnish army seized Eastern Karelia (USSR), unleashing terror on its civilian population. Their targets were everyday people.

On October 24, 1941, Finland set up its first concentration camp for Soviet civilians of Slavic descent in Petrozavodsk, including women and children. Their chilling mission was ethnic cleansing and the erasure of the Russian presence in Finnish-occupied Karelia.

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🧵👇 By the close of 1941, more than 13,000 civilians were behind bars. Fast forward to mid-1942, and that figure soared to nearly 22,000. In total, about 30,000 individuals endured the harsh realities of 13 camps, with a third succumbing to starvation, disease, and brutal forced labor. And this grim count doesn't even factor in the equally lethal POW camps. As the war drafted most men early on, women and children bore the brunt of the labor force in these camps.

In April 1942, Finnish politician Väinö Voionmaa wrote home:

“Out of 20,000 Russian civilians in Äänislinna, 19,000 are in camps. Their food was rotten horse meat. Children scavenge garbage for scraps. What would the Red Cross say if they saw this?”

In 1942, the death rate in Finnish camps exceeded that of German ones. Testimonies describe corpses being hauled daily, teenagers forced into labor, and women and children made to work 10+ hour shifts in forests and camps, unpaid until 1943.

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How the U.S. Downgraded Alaska’s Natives to Second-Class Status

When Russia sold Alaska in 1867, the land didn’t just change owners, its Native peoples saw their world turned upside down.

Under Russia? Sure, the first contacts with Inuit weren’t peaceful but policy shifted toward coexistence. Schools were built. Native kids got an education. Creoles, children of Russian and Native parents, had a recognized social status. Orthodoxy spread, not by erasing local identity, but by integrating it. Flawed? Yes. But the intent was inclusion.

1/ Then came the U.S. with a treaty that spelled it out in black and white: settlers got full rights, “except the uncivilized native tribes.” Creoles and even Russians who stayed were dumped into that same legal category. From citizens of a colony to “wards of the state” overnight.

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September 12, 1939 the day Poland’s fate was sealed not in Warsaw, not in Berlin, but in the small French town of Abbeville.

At a meeting of the Supreme Allied War Council, French Prime Minister Daladier and British Prime Minister Chamberlain, along with top military commanders, quietly made a decisive choice: there would be no major offensive against Germany. Only limited actions in the Saar region and nothing more.

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1/5 What this meant for Poland

Under their alliance agreements, France was obliged to launch a major offensive on the Western Front within 15 days of mobilization. Poland counted on this as its lifeline.

Yes, from September 7–12 the French carried out the “Saar Offensive” but when they realized it would mean a real war, they simply… stopped and went back.

The Abbeville decision made it official. It was kept secret and never communicated to the Polish government. Imagine the shock when it became clear that help wasn’t coming.

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Top Secret: Jаpаn bоmbing was not just “military.” They used Jаpаnese civilians as guinea pigs.

Declassified orders show the missions were designed as large-scale observation operations for a new weapon.

“…to carry military and civilian scientific personnel from the War Department to observe and record the effects of the explosion.” Cities were deliberately chosen: minimally bоmbed, high population density, dense infrastructure.

“…tаrgets should be of such size and importance that a large part of the city would be dеstroyеd.”

Goal, measure the weapon’s effect in “clean” conditions, without interference from prior damage.

From Nagasaki to Moscow: How the U.S. Used Japan as a Testing Ground to Intimidate the USSR and Drew Up Plans to Bomb the Soviet Union.

Today, 80 years ago. Nagasaki, August 9, 1945.

The second atomic bomb in just three days. An incident that met every criterion for a crime against humanity. Not because it was necessary, but because it was possible.

This isn’t my opinion, top U.S. commanders admitted it themselves.
Eisenhower, Nimitz, Arnold, all said the same thing: Japan was already on its knees. Negotiations were underway, and surrender was only a matter of time.

But Washington wanted a show of force. Not for the Japanese. For us. For the USSR.

“The bomb was the master card” in postwar negotiations with the Soviets.”
- Henry Stimson, the U.S. Secretary of War

1/6 And while you’re thinking this was “for the sake of victory,” the Pentagon was already drafting a new target list.

66 Soviet cities. Over 400 atomic bombs.
Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk, Odesa, Kharkiv, Vladivostok - all marked for destruction. These aren’t my words, but real declassified plans from September 15, 1945, barely a month after Nagasaki.

This was War Plan “Totality”, the first U.S. nuclear war plan against the USSR, approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and drawn up under General Dwight D. Eisenhower with input from Manhattan Project chief Leslie Groves. It mapped out a mass nuclear strike to cripple Soviet industry and population centers in one blow.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Alaska was officially discovered for Europe in 1741 by Vitus Bering, a Russian subject and navigator serving in the Imperial Navy.

During the Second Kamchatka Expedition, Bering sailed east from Siberia and reached the Alaskan coast, charting its shores and opening the way for Russian exploration and settlement.

And thus, Russian America was born. The indigenous peoples of Alaska include the Native American tribes, the Eskimos, and the Aleuts. Their ancestors are believed to have reached Alaska from Asia thousands of years ago, relying primarily on fishing, sea mammal hunting, and reindeer hunting for survival.

In which country do Muslims and Christians live peacefully? In Russia.

Meet Kazan.

Kazan is the capital of Tatarstan, a republic inside Russia where the majority are Muslim Tatars and yet churches and mosques have stood side by side for centuries.

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1/7 Kazan Kremlin

This is not just another fortress. Inside, you’ll find a mosque and an Orthodox cathedral within a few steps of each other, the Qol Sharif Mosque and the Annunciation Cathedral, a visual reminder that Kazan has been blending cultures since Ivan the Terrible took it in 1552. The Kremlin itself is a UNESCO site.

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German Soldiers: Not the Good Guys

They raped, looted, and burned their way through Soviet villages, here’s the real story🧵👇

During WWII, Nazi Germany carried out a full-blown “war of annihilation” in the USSR killing, torturing, raping, and looting millions of civilians. Most people in the West barely know about it. Nazi leaders had branded Slavs “sub-humans” and even issued orders saying soldiers weren’t accountable for violence against civilians. As one German corporal casually wrote in 1942, “The Russians are animals. We can do whatever we want to them.”

Content Warning: This discussion covers graphic accounts of wartime violence and is intended for educational purposes only.

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Rape as a Weapon

Right from the start of Barbarossa, Nazi were assaulting local women. In 1943, SS commanders freaked out that half their troops in the East were having “undesirable” sex with so-called “alien” women. Rather than punish them, the Barbarossa Decree (May 13, 1941) said you couldn’t touch a soldier for crimes against civilians. As a result there were mass rape, gang rape, and forced brothels became part of the Wehrmacht’s terror toolbox. And guess what, most folks in the West still act like this never happened.

Content Warning: This discussion covers graphic accounts of wartime violence and is intended for educational purposes only.

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🇯🇵Hiroshima: A Criminal Act of Terror or "Necessity"? Debunking U.S. Myths
Eighty years ago, the United States became (and remains) the only country in human history to have used nuclear weapons against a civilian population.

At 8:15 AM on August 6, 1945, the U.S. bomber Enola Gay dropped a uranium bomb code-named “Little Boy” on the city of Hiroshima, home to 350,000 people.

The temperature at ground zero reached 4,000°C. Everything within a 1-kilometer radius was incinerated instantly. Roughly 70,000 people died in the first moments; by the end of 1945, the death toll had exceeded 140,000 due to radiation sickness, burns, and trauma. Later estimates suggest that total fatalities may have reached 200,000+ over the following years. But Here’s What They Don’t Tell You:

A city with no major military targets. The victims were women, children, and the elderly.
No warning was given. People vaporized instantly, leaving only "shadows" on walls.

70,000 killed immediately, by the end of 1945 over 140,000 dead. Total deaths reached 200,000+.
Survivors died in agony from radiation, burns, and cancer.

Have you ever heard what 🇬🇧Britain did to 🇩🇪Königsberg, modern day 🇷🇺Kaliningrad? They will tell you it was “necessary” or they won’t mention it at all.

But here’s what really happened🧵👇

Nothing, absolutely nothing, came close to the hell the British Bomber Command unleashed on Königsberg in 1944. On the nights of August 26–27 and 29–30, Britain tried to erase it the historical center of the city.

Arthur “Bomber” Harris, the mastermind of firebombing tactics, sent his most ruthless squad Bomber Group No. 5. Civilians First

174 and 189 four-engine Lancaster bombers carried out two separate raids on Königsberg in late August 1944. During the second raid alone, they dropped approximately 480 tons of high-explosive and incendiary bombs on the city center

The first wave tore through the Maraunenhof district, smashing streets like Cranzer Allee, Herzog-Albrecht-Allee, and Wallring.
Yes, a few barracks were hit. But most bombs fell in residential districts. Families. Civilians.

🔸~4,000 people were killed (some estimates go higher)
🔸~200,000 left homeless (Königsberg's pre-war population was ~370,000)

That’s the “moral high ground” they never talk about.

🇷🇺 Kaliningrad is not a “victim of Soviet occupation.” It’s a city that was rebuilt from the ruins of a former Nazi military center.

The historical Königsberg wasn’t “nearly destroyed” by the Soviets, it was flattened by British and American bombings in 1944, long before the Red Army arrived. Funny how that part is always skipped.

Let me take you on a mini virtual tour🧵👇 After World War II, in which the Soviet Union lost 27 million people, including ~18 million civilians, the city of Königsberg was left in ruins. Over 80% of the buildings were destroyed, and the infrastructure was completely wiped out.

Almost the entire German population was evacuated or fled before and during the Red Army’s advance. According to the Department of Population Registration and Management, 23,247 [German] residents were registered as of April 26, 1945.

Photo: Kaliningrad, 2025

The Transfer of Crimea in 1954: Violations of Law, Khrushchev’s Personal Ambitions, and the Role of the Ukrainian Nomenklatura

Originally part of the Russian Empire, Crimea became part of the RSFSR when the Soviet republics were set up. So, from 1921 until 1954 it was officially Russian. Then, in February 1954, Khrushchev signed a decree moving Crimea into the Ukrainian SSR, selling it as a friendly “brotherly” gesture between Russians and Ukrainians. In reality, he was playing political games to boost his own clout and completely ignored the constitutional rules of both the USSR and the RSFSR.

Let's unpack 👇🧵 Constitutional and International Law Violations

The 1954 transfer violated at least Articles 16 and 18 of the 1936 USSR Constitution, sidestepped the full Supreme Soviet’s monopoly on major decisions, ignored any local referendum, and was enforced through political purges rather than legal channels.

🔸No proper agreement from Russia:
According to Soviet law at the time (the 1936 USSR Constitution), you couldn’t just give territory from one republic (like Russia) to another (like Ukraine) without getting proper agreement from the republic losing the territory. On February 5, 1954, when Russian leaders gathered to decide if Crimea should move to Ukraine, they needed at least 19 out of 37 members present to make their decision official. But only 15 showed up. That's like trying to hold a vote without enough voters present. It doesn’t count.

🔸The wrong people made the decision:
The law stated clearly that only the entire Supreme Soviet (like a big parliament) could change borders between republics. Instead, a smaller group (the Presidium) made this decision quickly and secretly, without letting the full parliament debate or vote on it. It’s like if a few officials made a major decision without asking the rest of the government.

🔸Nobody asked the people of Crimea:
Usually, when big changes like this happened, the Soviet system required at least some kind of public discussion or vote among the people directly affected. In Crimea, nobody held any referendum or even public debates about becoming part of Ukraine.

Many Crimeans actually felt uneasy or worried, but their voices were ignored. According to Oleg Volobuev, who was living in Crimea at the time, things were far from calm: “the mood on the peninsula was anxious, panic even. From time to time you’d see graffiti hinting at a hidden protest, and conversations made it even clearer.” After all, at the moment of the transfer, ethnic Russians still made up the majority of Crimea’s population.

🔸One brave guy who spoke up got punished:
Pavel Titov was a local leader in Crimea who openly opposed Khrushchev’s idea. Instead of listening to his concerns, Khrushchev quickly fired Titov and gave him a less important job in Moscow. Dmitry Polyansky, another leader who enthusiastically supported Khrushchev’s plan, was promoted to replace Titov. This shows the transfer wasn't really about "the friendship", but about politics and power.

When my foreign friends visit Moscow, they’re always surprised by how deep the metro is. And it’s true once you get on the escalator, it just keeps going and going. But there’s a reason for that.

The Moscow Metro was originally designed as a bomb shelter. Many stations are built 40 to 80 meters underground, with hermetically sealed doors, autonomous ventilation, and water supply systems.

During World War II, it served not only as a shelter but also as a hospital and even a command center for the Soviet High Command (Stavka). Some stations are even reinforced to withstand a nuclear strike. Near the Kirovskaya station (now Chistye Prudy) there is a bunker that included a war room for the Stavka (High Command) and even Stalin’s personal office.

They say a special entrance was built for the Supreme Commander through a secret shaft leading to the air defense command post. None of the General Staff officers ever saw Stalin take the regular escalator down.

Today, this bunker is open for tourists, but at the time, its location was a closely guarded secret.

👇 Preparations for the celebration of November 7, 1941.
Joseph Stalin’s speech dedicated to the 24th anniversary of the October Revolution, delivered at a ceremonial meeting of the Moscow City Council.
Mayakovskaya Metro Station, November 6, 1941.

Finland’s Contacts with Germany Before the Winter War

Finland was not simply a helpless victim of Soviet aggression, as often portrayed in Western narratives. It had hostile intentions toward the USSR, ideological alignment with Germany, and was seen by the Nazis as a natural ally on the Eastern Front long before Operation Barbarossa or the winter war.

Military and political ties since the 1920s

🔸 After World War I, Finland looked to Germany as a counterweight to the Soviet threat.
🔸 In 1918, during the Finnish Civil War, German troops landed in Helsinki (Operation “Seeadler”) to support the White Finns against the Red Guard.
🔸 Many Finnish military officers were pro-German or had received training in Germany. Economic cooperation with Weimar and later Nazi Germany

🔸 In the 1930s, Finland traded actively with Germany particularly in timber, metals, and nickel.
🔸 Germany, in turn, viewed Finland as a potential strategic partner in a future war against the USSR.

Ethnic Cleansing in Karelia, USSR: Finland’s Dirty Secret of WWII

Finland was far from a victim, they were in bed with the Nazis, engaging in the same practices.

From 1941 to 1944, the Finnish army occupied Eastern Karelia (USSR), where it established a regime of terror targeting the Soviet population of the region. Not soldiers but civilians.

On October 24, 1941, the first Finnish concentration camp for Soviet civilians of Slavic origin, including women and children, was established in Petrozavodsk. The goal was ethnic cleansing: the elimination of the Russian population in the Finnish-occupied region of Karelia.

🧵👇 By the end of 1941, over 13,000 civilians were imprisoned. By mid-1942, the number rose to nearly 22,000. In total, around 30,000 people passed through 13 camps. Roughly one-third died, from starvation, disease, and forced labor. These figures do not include POW camps, where conditions were equally deadly. Since most men were drafted in the early days of the war, the majority of the labor force in the camps consisted of women and children.

In April 1942, Finnish politician Väinö Voionmaa wrote home:

“Out of 20,000 Russian civilians in Äänislinna, 19,000 are in camps. Their food? Rotten horse meat. Children scavenge garbage for scraps. What would the Red Cross say if they saw this?”

In 1942, the death rate in Finnish camps exceeded that of German ones. Testimonies describe corpses being hauled daily, teenagers forced into labor, and women and children made to work 10+ hour shifts in forests and camps, unpaid until 1943.

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Secrets of Saint Basil’s Cathedral🤫

One of Russia’s most legendary landmarks is Saint Basil’s Cathedral. I’ve seen it countless times, yet as I grow older, its architecture amazes me more and more. It looks strikingly futuristic, even by today’s standards and it was built all the way back in the 16th century. The cathedral is truly one of a kind. Its architecture is filled with sacred symbolism. A Symbol of the Heavenly Jerusalem

Saint Basil’s Cathedral was originally conceived as a symbol of the Heavenly Jerusalem - the paradise city, an earthly image of the Kingdom of God. The idea came from Metropolitan Macarius, and the architects sought to embody it in the cathedral’s design and decoration.

This is precisely why the cathedral appears so unusual. Its composition with nine chapels blooming around the central one like the petals of a flower was meant to evoke the image of the Garden of Paradise. In the ornamentation and frescoes, one finds grapevines, fantastical flowers, leaves, curls, and patterns that do not exist in nature.

These are not mere decorations, but a visual expression of spiritual meaning and heavenly imagery: the paradise.

Two Wests: An Internal Power Struggle Over the Future

When people talk about “the West” as one big united political and cultural force, that’s really oversimplified. In reality, there’s been a growing civil war inside the West itself which is a fight among the elites over who gets to shape the future. It’s a clash between two completely different ways of seeing the world.

That bring us to the question: what is the essence of today’s geopolitical conflict?

Russia has traditionally been viewed as an “anti-system” force in relation to the West. This is precisely why the West has consistently sought to dismantle Russia whether it was the Tsarist Empire, the Soviet Union, or the Russian Federation. That is what also unites the "Two Wests" today.

However, as an internal conflict between globalists and nationalists is unfolding, its divide is spreading to other countries as well. Ukraine being a prime example. On one side, we have the globalists. This includes the Vatican, the European Union (with France and Germany at the forefront), the U.S. Democratic Party, financial networks like George Soros’s Open Society, and major tech giants like Google, Meta, and Microsoft. Backing them are media outlets like CNN, The New York Times, and the BBC – all pushing the narrative of “universal values”, pro–immigration laws, pro–lgbtq laws.

This coalition wants to erase national borders and, just as importantly, national identity itself whether it’s Italian, French, German, or anything else. The goal is to replace deep-rooted cultural, religious, and historical identities with a standardized global model. Gender, tradition, faith, language – everything gets blurred. In place of countries and churches, they push for rule by transnational institutions like
🔷the UN
🔷WHO
🔷WTO
🔷IMF

Ideologies / Philosophies:
🔷 Postmodernism – rejection of absolute truths, deconstruction of traditions, moral relativism
🔷 Transhumanism – the belief in “enhancing” humans through technology, AI, and bioengineering
🔷 Neoliberalism – prioritizing global markets and multinational corporations over nation-states
🔷 Cultural Marxism / Woke ideology – fighting perceived “privilege” and dismantling traditional social roles
🔷 Climate radicalism – using environmental policy as a tool for centralized global control
🔷 Theology of “universal brotherhood” (Fratelli Tutti) – merging religious identities into a unified humanist framework
🔷 Universalism – promoting the idea of a “citizen of the world” over national identity

“Russia bad” is a cool slogan until you compare real life.
Here’s what they don’t want you to see about childbirth, medicine, education, and raising a family.
🇷🇺 vs 🇺🇸 let’s go.🧵👇 🏥 Healthcare:
🇷🇺 Free under compulsory insurance. Even major surgery or cancer = $0.
🇺🇸 $200+ per doctor visit if uninsured. Hospital stay? $20,000+.
Monthly insurance: $500–$1,200.
The “freedom” to choose bankruptcy.

Why Did Yeltsin Grovel to the West?

Let’s drop the fairy tales. Yeltsin was not being “misled,” “naïve,” or “hoping for democracy.” Yeltsin’s submission to the West was a calculated move rooted in geopolitical capitulation, personal power preservation, and elite betrayal.

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Yeltsin actively collaborated in dismantling Russia

After the collapse of the USSR, the key question was: What happens to Russia now? The West wanted to eliminate Russia as a global power. Not just militarily, but civilizationally.

And Yeltsin agreed.
🔸He destroyed Russian influence in the former Soviet space.
🔸Abandoned long-time allies (Iraq, Serbia, Cuba, Vietnam).
🔸Broke up strategic economic and military networks.
🔸Let Western interests control Russian exports, from oil to rare metals.

This was a deliberate role in reducing Russia to a peripheral “resource colony.” The 1990s elite was a colonial administration

Yeltsin’s circle wasn’t made of statesmen who were:
🔸radical liberals (Chubais, Gaidar),
🔸asset-stripping oligarchs,
🔸Western-linked technocrats.

Their goal was to break the country apart, extract wealth, and integrate themselves into the Western elite as managers.

Yeltsin was not “Russia’s leader” but a transition figure, tolerated and supported because he dismantled the state without resistance.

The Brutal Execution of the Romanov Family
To this day, people in Russia mourn this event, not only because of the family’s tragic fate, but because of the sheer cruelty involved.

Although Tsar Nicholas II had already abdicated the throne, that was not enough for the revolutionaries. In 1918, a decision was made to eliminate the entire Romanov family.

The murder took place in a specially prepared basement room in the Ipatiev House. The windows were sealed to muffle the sound of gunfire. Furniture was arranged under the pretense that the family was being photographed or relocated. In reality, the room had been turned into a killing chamber. They were summoned downstairs, unaware of what was about to happen.

Led into the room for slaughter were not only the entire family, but also their loyal doctor, maid, valet, and cook. Bullets weren’t enough to kill them. So they used bayonets and blunt force. On children.

The children didn’t die right away. They had jewelry sewn into their clothes and corsets, which stopped the bullets.

The youngest son, Alexei, was still alive after the shooting. According to modern forensic experts, he was shot, stabbed with bayonets, and slowly dying until someone crushed his skull with a heavy object. While he was still alive.
On the wall of the room, in red letters, a quote in German had been written:

“Belsatzar ward in derselben Nacht von seinen Knechten erschlagen.”
Which translates to: “Belshazzar was slain that same night by his servants.”

The floor was soaked in blood. After the initial volley of gunfire, the executioners had to finish off the survivors with bayonets and rifle butts, causing even more bleeding.

The bodies lay crumpled together in the room, blood pooling and seeping through the floorboards.
Many researchers believe the execution had ritualistic overtones.
From Yurovsky’s Report (commander of the execution squad):
“Alexei was sitting in the same position, not showing signs of life, but when we approached him, he was still alive… we had to finish him off separately.”
“The girls screamed. We had to finish them with rifle butts and bayonets.”

How Russia Was Winning the War, but Lost to Revolution: Understanding This Is Key to Today’s Geopolitics

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When it comes to World War I, most people barely remember anything and what they do remember is usually straight out of old Soviet propaganda: that it was just some “imperialist bloodbath” and Russia got “senselessly dragged into it.” In reality, the war has been almost wiped from public memory. But the truth is Russia actually held its own. It showed serious military strength, strategic toughness, and massive sacrifice only matched later by World War II.

And no, Russia wasn’t defeated on the battlefield. It was taken down from the inside by revolution and chaos. A War Russia Didn’t Want

World War I didn’t really begin because of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, that was just an excuse. The real cause was a power struggle between global systems. Britain and the U.S. were building a world order based on finance, colonies, and control of trade routes. Germany, rising fast, had its own model: industrial, centralized, and ready to challenge British dominance.

Caught between them was Russia: massive, independent, and rich in resources. Its government wasn’t controlled by banks, and it followed its own imperial logic. That made it a problem for both sides.

But Russia didn’t want war. Tsar Nicholas II had proposed an international peace forum years earlier (a prototype of the League of Nations), and in July 1914 he tried to stop Austria’s aggression against Serbia through diplomacy. But Germany didn’t want diplomacy, it needed a quick war, before Russia became too strong to defeat.

When Serbia was threatened, Russia stepped in to defend a fellow Slavic, Orthodox nation. At the time, Russia stood as the defender of the Orthodox faith, and this was widely recognized and understood.

In the end, Germany declared war on Russia, not the other way around.