Which event was more influential in making Russia?

Which event was more influential in making Russia?

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von kressenstein

Banned
I would say its a tough choice.. being that the revolution was a critical turning point. But it alone did not define russia or USSR...

The defining moment came when the Germans invaded Mother Russia.

Russians/Slavs/kosaks/Tatars/Ukrainians all came together punting aside there differences, welding the national identity and making Russia (USSR) a great power again.

Now of course this fell apart later on due to mismanagement from the top, but no event shaped and brought the eastern Slavic people together like world war II.. it was fight or die...

Revolution only deposed of the old guard and brought Kerensky at first.. then Lenin, then civil war, so obviously many amongst the populace were not thrilled with the ideas of Lenin LTD.

( Tis funny how almost 100 years later, the Romanov's are looked at in a nostalgic light, but from '05 - '17 onward the masses were not pleased with his autocratic highness Czar Nicholas II. they even canonized him a short time ago.. go figure.. he screw it up so bad for the family that Mikal, was like.. uh.. no thanks.. i prefer to not be dead.. )

People did not fight for comrade Stalin.. they fought for MOTHER RUSSIA and their lives.
 

wolf_brother

Banned
Alexander's reforms; he freed the serfs, created the zemstvo, heavily supported Finnish nationalism while on the other hand heavily oppressing Polish nationalism, and reformed the military after the debacle of the Crimean War. Without him Russia was be even more backward in relation to the Western powers than it was IOTL.

As well, IMHO, the late events simply couldn't have happened without Alexander's reforms.
 
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