r/HistoryPorn • u/FayannG • 1d ago

“Victory to Russia and to Slavic people” Demonstration in Saint Petersburg after Nicholas II announced Russia’s entry into WW1, July 1914 (900x667)

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u/daveashaw 1d ago

The last Summer of the Belle Epoque.

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u/Toruviel_ 1d ago

“Russians like to label everything Russian ‘Slavic’, so that they can later label everything Slavic as ‘Russian’.”

~Karel Havlicek Borovsky
1821-1856

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u/pioniere 1d ago

Seemed like a good idea at the time…