When Europe punished Russia | EUROtoday
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Lhe lengthy siege of Sébastopol, eleven months (1854-1855), gave his title to a well-known Parisian boulevard, however, in Moscow, regardless of his sad end result, he ceaselessly embodies the spirit of resistance within the face of a Europe led in opposition to the Holy Russia.
The present burst of an virtually united Europe in opposition to Moscow recollects this features this conflict of Crimea, which gave delivery to a turned continent. Already, it was a query of countering Russian expansionism, this time in the direction of the Balkans, Valaquie and Moldova, nonetheless underneath Ottoman domination, however occupied by Tsarist troops.
The weakened affected person known as the Ottoman Empire, which dangers collapsing underneath the Russian blows. The pretension of the Orthodox Tsar to take the hand on the holy locations in Jerusalem finally ends up persuading Paris, all the time …
https://www.lepoint.fr/histoire/guerre-de-crimee-quand-l-europe-punissait-la-russie-23-03-2025-2585462_1615.php
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