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Re:Germany to Pass Japan as Third-Largest Economy, Helped by... by OfSanguineFire on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @12:14PM (#38001290)
On the other hand, late imperial Russia saw all the Orthodox lands down to Constantinople as its legitimate sphere of influence, so while the OP likely made a mistake, the notion of an Austro-Hungarian vs. Russia dividing line still has some sense to it.
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Re:Germany to Pass Japan as Third-Largest Economy, Helped by... by KptMarchewa on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @12:24PM (#38001450)
Sure, the tendency of russia seeing random foreign lands as their own is at least as old as Ivan the Terrible.
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