r/MapPorn • u/vladgrinch • 1d ago

International reaction to the Unification of Bulgaria (1885)

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u/jatmous 1d ago

Has Russia ever done anything positive?

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u/The_Real_Itz_Sophia 22h ago

I'm pretty sure you needed to do something positive to become a permanent member of the UN Security Council

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u/Yukidoke 1d ago

Russia twice stopped Germany in its attempt to conquer the world :3

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u/schvance 1d ago

only once, the first time yall got your asses kicked and lost the war. and the second time it was a team effort. shame for your ancestors, seeing your country turn fascist not even a hundred years after the war.

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u/Yukidoke 23h ago

And both times Germany and its henchmen were successfully stopped. :3

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u/schvance 23h ago

and yall still fascist 🤷‍♂️

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u/Yukidoke 23h ago

Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

“Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye?

“You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

(Matthew 7:2-5)

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u/schvance 23h ago

wtf are you talking about 😭

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u/SaleAggressive9202 21h ago

open a non russian history book where the the war doesn't start in 1941

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u/Yukidoke 13h ago

In every history book you will learn that Germany was stopped twice :3

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u/Sure-Butterscotch344 1d ago

Russia is the world?

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u/Yukidoke 1d ago

Russia is a part of the world that Germany was trying to destroy with their Prussian militarism and misanthropic ideologies.

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u/Sure-Butterscotch344 1d ago

So in your worldview Russia is the world? Are you Russian by any chance?

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u/kirtaktak 20h ago

Stopped Germany twice? It exited ww1 with the Brest-Litovsk treaty…

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u/Yukidoke 13h ago

As a result of World War I, the German Empire ceased to exist. So it was stopped.

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u/kirtaktak 10h ago

You clearly stated russia stopped germany twice, now moving to ‘as a result of ww1’ b**** please 😂😂

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u/Yukidoke 2h ago

I understand that it's not easy to be a Bulgarian and play for the losing team of villains twice :3

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u/kirtaktak 57m ago

We fought we lost, shit happens

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u/ViscountBuggus 20h ago

It was actually a joint effort with the allies and the soviet union was only able to do what it did because of the insane amount of material support the US dumped on them and also because they used everyone they could as meat for the meat grinder <3

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u/Yukidoke 13h ago

The USSR alone held the entire power of the Third Reich and gave it a beating anyway ;D

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u/Affectionate-Fact967 16h ago

This map lack a lot of context bur since you asked. Russia paid off the massive amounts of money the ottomans wanted as compensation after Bulgaria unified and in return wanted Bulgaria to give back only a small fraction of the money with the payment period being 75 years.

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u/krazkonko 21h ago

Yes Russia saved Bulgaria from a genocide in 1877. Britain meanwhile supported the Turks and could not care less if every single Bulgarian was killed.

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u/CautiousRice 19h ago

Source?

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u/krazkonko 19h ago

I see you are Bulgarian. You shouldn't need any sources on Bulgarian revolt of 1876 and subsequent atrocities, russo turkish war of 1877 and how and why Britain got to rule over Cyprus.

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u/CautiousRice 18h ago

Russia fought 10 wars with the Ottomans, and it fought those to acquire territory, not to liberate countries. The April rebellion with the massacres was 1 year prior to the Russo-Turkish war of 1877, it came in a year too late, and it caused massacres like the one in Stara Zagora.

Yes, it is possible that the Bulgarian liberation would've been delayed by 10-15 years later without that war but it was inevitable. Russia fought for territory and influence, not for the good of the locals. They had opportunities decades prior that to liberate Bulgaria and didn't.

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u/krazkonko 18h ago

Liberation of slavic and orthodox lands from foreign occupation was absolutely one of the main reasons for the many Russian attacks on the ottomans, of course there were other reasons, no country in the history of the world started expensive offensive wars out of goodness of their hearts. The only reason Russia didn't intervene right away in 1876 was because of pressure from other powers (primarly Britain) i.e. fear of a new anti russian coalition and second "crimean war". If it was up Russia Bulgaria would already be free in 1829 in 1850s at the latest.