A map of how Russia envisaged European borders as it entered World War 1
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translation:
Russia - the great and sovereign (selfruling) fights for the restoration of righteousness, justice, peace and law on its land - she doesnt need others' goods, she doesnt need others' land; she will just take what has historically belonged to her. Red Ruthenia with Lviv and Przemysl, part of Bukovina with Chernivtsy. East Prussia with Königsberg over Wisla, many times heated wirh russian blood should again be russian land. Gdansk and Torun should be made russian fortresses. In the borders of Russia, under [rule of her] mighty scepter, the free in its own selfgovernance Poland, will reunite its provinces, hitherto separated by the antics of Germany and Austria
England - Her existing colonies unanimously and cheerfully acknowledged that the righteous England has become their native (sic) mother. She will receive all German colonies, give them legality and justice and will become their mother too.
France - will receive the lands between the rivers Moselle and Rhein with the fortress of Koblenz. [She will] take off the black mourning cloth off the Strasbourg statue and again will Alsace and Lotharingia be [part of the] free France.
Belgium - the first to show with its crazy (sic) courage to Germany that power is not in the cannons, but in the spirit; doesn't the poor and ravaged Belgium deserve to be a great state! She will receive the Rheinian province and the right to take the best works of art from the museums of Berlin to itself in Brussels.
Serbia - will also be a large state; she deserved it, by paying for it with her Belgrade. Bosnia, Herzegovina, Dalmatia and Croatia should go to her. So that the cannons of Austria never look at Belgrade, she also receives Zemun.
Denmark - receives Schleswig and Holstein until the Kiel canal
Holland (sic) - receives Essen, where before there were factories of Krupp, since the capital of the war should submit to the Hague, capital of peace. (world/peace are same in russian but i doubt they called the hague the world capital)
Italy - receives South Tyrol and Istria with Trieste.
Switzerland - a peaceful country of resorts will receive Tyrol with its resorts, so that the Russians may visit resorts there and not in Austria.
[to] Romania - will go a part of Bukovina and Transsylvania just because Bukovina was once Romania
Czechia with Prague and Hungary with Budapest will each be separate countries with the borders of their peoples, with governments elected by their people.
Albania - having lost all chances for an independent government will be split between Montenegro, Serbia and Italy.
Turkey - will keep its lands if it wont go crazy (sic) and send "[a] fleet to the bottom of the Black sea" as said by Mr. Mikhaylovsky in the "Russian Word" (a newspaper)
Germany and Austria will receive everything that will be left of all other states
And so, all peoples of Europe will then live and peace and joy, without seeing the terrible ghost of Wilhelm the Insane and his armored fist.
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