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> unconditional surrender to orthodox christianity and tzar will cure you".

While I don't personally lean that way myself, I'm also not close-minded enough to dismiss the possibility outright.

Well the problem from my POV is that that exact empire he defended was persecuting millions of people, banning their languages, sending their people to forced labour camps, exterminating native people in Siberia, and keeping about 90% of the whole Russian society in serfdom (which in Russia was basically slavery).

You keep being "open-minded" about that, I prefer modernism and liberalism, thank you.

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