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"Rise Russians! Rise from the tundra of Siberia from the steppes of the Ukraine! from the villages in the pale and from the sprawling cities of Saint Petersburg and Moscow!We must Rise for Today we are besieged on all sides by foes who want to see nothing more than the sight of our grand empire in flames! our long time enemies the Ottomans lay in the south slowly encroaching on our peoples land in the Caucasus they use their words and deceitful words and their lies to turn our own friends against us just as they have with the orientals in the east! But do not Fear for as we speak the Grand armies of the Empire march through the cold snow and across the icy plains of Siberia withstanding many a blizzard and hardship to bring justice to the foe whom would rather see them dead than in peace! right now the army of Moscow is locked in a deadly combat against the Ottomans in the Caucasus! they think that they have achieve victory by forcing us out when they have just pushed us on further to this resolve soon our army shall be rallied and march against the Ottomans once more with many thousands more men ready to face the foe!"As for the Treachery committed by our friends the Romanians even though a treaty had been previously signed enacting peace between our nations I believe it no more than a simple mistake one that in the end the only outcome was the damage done to the Romanian navy! but now with their help I believe shall march onto victory against the Ottoman Scum! this year has brought many blessings the British once a hated enemy have ousted the mad Albert and installed prime minister Gladstone the main author in the current treaty of paris which brought peace to the continent of Europe and has also enlisted the help from the British to supply us with weapons and training as so we may crush those foes who stand ignorant in their situation like a animal backed into a corner they fight hopelessly and desperately when the real answer is to surrender and submit before any more damage is done to them! as such I end this speech with a simple phrase one that has been echoed from many a mouth from Tsar Ivan the "terrible" in his quest to end the oppressive rule of the Boyars over Russia to Peter the Great in his campaigns in the Great Northern wars! I say March on Rus! March on for the Fatherland, for Otechestvo!"
-Tsar Alexander II, Autocrat of All the Russias, King of Poland, and Grand Prince of Finland at a speech outside the winter palace.
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