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Peter greatly underestimated the size and speed of the Ottoman army, overestimated his chances to peel away Ottoman vassals as allies, allowed his supply lines to be disrupted, and misread the terrain and Ottoman maneuvers, bogging his forces down in a marsh.
This should have been the end of Peter the Great, but his reputation and the timidity of the ...
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Remember that just a year before Battle of Vienna, tsar Feodor Alexeyevich passed away, what resulted with Moscow Uprising of 1682. In result, all the power was gained by Sophia Alekseyevna, who became the regent of Russia. The future tsar, Peter the Great, was only 10 years old.
Following the uprising, the internal situation of Russia was very unstable, ...
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Once in a while I fully agree with @Anixx: there was no ban on Ukrainian language under the USSR. So the premise of the question seems to be vacuous.
Of course the issue is rather nuanced (as almost always in history):
1. Russian obviously was the top language under the USSR, without any bans.
2. In all republics of the USSR the national language was ...
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As far as I know, modern Ukraine consists of 3 parts:
Western Ukraine,
Eastern Ukraine and
the Crimea peninsula.
Western Ukraine was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and is therefore Pro-Western.
Eastern Ukraine was part of Russia and is therefore Pro-Russian.
The Crimea peninsula is a territory populated primarily by Russians and a large ...
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