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As many of you already know our comrades the Prussians have declared war against the ottomans and is at the threat of war with their austrian brethren. Now I must ask you grand soldiers of the Russias can we sit idly by while our christain brethren are dying and fighting with the heathen muslim and arab scum to the south? I say nay! We must rise to arms and protect our christian brethren against the muslim heathens! So I say to arms Russians to arms! For the Unity of the Slavic peoples may we crush the Ottomans and we warn our brethren in Romania to join in this Sacred War against the Dark Ottoman hordes least they be traitorous to their slavic brethren and face the wrath of the Grand Russian Bear

Today we declare war against the Ottoman Empire and we mobilize our armies against the heathens. Never once has the Proud Russian Bear bow down to the Foreigner not when Napoleon was at the walls of Moscow nor when the mongol hordes crossed the grand Volga river and sent Rus into a dark age of Tartar Rule we rose our people like a massive tide against the enemy and the oppressor and today we do the same against the Ottoman Hordes! Forward I say! from the Steppes, From the Pale, from the cold Siberian tundra, and from the bustling cities of Russia I ask to all good Christian men to take up arms in this Sacred War! Take up the Musket, take up the Saber, take up the Pike, For Today Russia goes to war! For Otechestvo! For the Tsar! and For God the Father, for Jesus our Savior, and For the Holy Ghost!
-Tsar Alexander II announcing the Declaration of war against the Ottomans outside the Winter palace
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