PART 1
sometimes i like to go on to wikipedia and just read and go wherever it takes me.. started looking up the moultrie flag and somehow managed to get to Leaders of the russian empire.. some interesting tidbits that got my almonds activating, thinkin maybe this will provide some anons with some historical context and get their almonds activating.
from wikipedia:
according to jefferson, "Alexander I of Russia was a man of estimable character, disposed to do good, and expected to diffuse through the mass of the Russian people "a sense of their natural rights"."
Life of Jews under Nicholas I:
In 1851 the Jewish population numbered at 2.4 million with 212,000 of them living in Russian controlled Poland territory.[30] This made them one of the largest inorodtsy minorities in the Russian Empire. On 26 August 1827 the edict of military conscription ("Ustav rekrutskoi povinnosti") was introduced, which required Jewish boys to serve in the Russian military for 25 years from the age of 18. Before that many of them were forcibly conscripted into Cantonist schools since the age of 12, while being a Cantonist did not count into the time of military service.[31] They were sent far away from their families to serve in the military so they would have difficulties to practice Judaism and thus be Russified. The poor, village Jews and Jews without families or unmarried Jews were especially targeted for the military service.[31] Between 1827 and 1854 it is estimated that there were 70,000 Jews conscripted. Some of the Jews that served in the Russian military eventually converted to Christianity. Under Nicholas I, the Jewish agricultural colonisation of Ukraine continued with the transfer of Siberian Jews to Ukraine.[32] In Ukraine, Jews were given land, but had to pay for it, leaving very little to support their families. On the other hand, these Jews were exempt from the forced military conscription. "Under Nicholas I there were attempts to reform the education of the Jews in attempt of Russification. The study of the Talmud was disapproved as it was seen as a text that encouraged Jewish segregation from the Russian society. Nicholas I further toughened censorship of the Jewish books in Yiddish and Hebrew by allowing these to be printed only in Zhitomir and Vilna."
did you all know that it was alexander II that freed the slaves in russia?! and yet had so many attempts on his life.. how ironic (parallel to today) the people that blew his legs off, the so called revolutionaries, were named Narodnaya Volya ("People's Will") AS IF he was going against the people's will… clearly some fuckery afoot. is it coincidence that (((they))) killed our leader that freed the slaves? "Alexander was carried by sleigh to the Winter Palace[33] to his study where almost the same day twenty years earlier, he had signed the Emancipation Edict freeing the serfs. Alexander was bleeding to death, with his legs torn away, his stomach ripped open, and his face mutilated. Members of the
Romanov
family came rushing to the scene and we all know who they became and what happened to them… "Nicholas followed the policies of his father, strengthening the Franco-Russian Alliance and pursuing a policy of general European pacification,
which culminated in the famous Hague peace conference."
Alexander II's death caused a great setback for the reform movement. One of his last acts was the approval of Mikhail Loris-Melikov's constitutional reforms.[50] Though the reforms were conservative in practice, their significance lay in the value Alexander II attributed to them: "I have given my approval, but I do not hide from myself the fact that it is the first step towards a constitution."[51]
In a matter of 48 hours, Alexander II planned to release these plans to the Russian people.
Instead, following his succession Alexander III under the advice of Konstantin Pobedonostsev chose to abandon these reforms and went on to pursue a policy of greater autocratic power."
"In foreign affairs Alexander III was a man of peace, but not at any price, and held that the best means of averting war is to be well-prepared for it."
hmmm