Pre-Revolutionary Russia ran on the Orthodox Faith. This was the oil that made the whole engine run.
By Jonas E. Alexis, Assistant Editor
Here’s The Truth
Q: Why are most academics so negative about Tsar Nicholas II?
What Figes misunderstands is that the parts of the Ottoman Empire which Nicholas I was interested in were those where an Orthodox Christian population had for centuries suffered under the Muslim Yoke. The Crimean War was not a colonial, imperialist Russian war to expand into the Ottoman Empire and exploit it, like those conducted by Western Powers to expand into Africa and Asia and exploit them. It was a struggle to liberate from oppression – in fact an anti-colonial, anti-imperialist war. The aim was to free Orthodox lands and peoples from oppression, not to conquer someone else’s empire.
As for Nicholas I being a religious fanatic, in the eyes of secularists all sincere Christians must be ‘religious fanatics’. This is because secularists do not have a spiritual dimension. They are always one-dimensional, unable to see beyond their own secular cultural conditioning, to think ‘outside the box’…READ FULL ARTICLE HERE…– Veterans Today | Military Foreign Affairs Policy Journal for Clandestine Services