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You grand soldiers of the empire! you have fought well and have showed the Austrian foes that the Russian peoples are a strong hardy race! although the battle ended with a loss those men who died there in the foothills of the Carpathian mountains their blood shall not be spillt in vain! we shall make the Austrian pigs pay for what they have done! for every drop of Russian blood spilt a 100 times more shall be split when our proud armies march into Vienna! We are a proud people and shall not take one defeat and slink off into our caves oh no! the lives of our fallen comrades shall spur us on to further victories to avenge their deaths! I am gladdened that so many of the serfs I have freed decided to serve their state well by offering their blood and sweat for the glory of the Russian peoples and for the advancement of the Empire! While our Prussian allies march across the Rhine toward Paris we shall be marching across the Danube and forward unto Vienna and we shall show the Austrian pigs what they should have learned from napoleons defeat at the Battle of Maloyaroslavets where we lost the battle but showed napoleon that the slavic people would never kneel under his boot causing him to retreat where many of his men died from the harsh Russian winters that only the pure people of Rus can survive and prosper in! So i say to you men even though today brought defeat it showed the austrians one thing, and that is the the Grand Russian Bear is not one to be trifled with!
-Tsar Alexander II, Autocrat of all the Russias, King of Poland, and Grand Prince of Finland addressing the army of saint petersburg outside of the winter palace.
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