FLAG OF THE HOLY MOTHERLAND

   - The fact that Rasputin survived, delayed the implementation of the February coup. As a result, the revolution did not happen. Already in late April, the Russian army launched a successful offensive in Galicia. Brusilovsky troops broke through the Austrian frontiers and surrounded Lviv. Only the approach of additional German divisions allowed the Russian offensive on the Przemysl line to be suspended. But part of the Romanian front also went on the attack. Bucharest was released. The Austrians could not withstand the stress of fighting, fled like mad hares.
   The Germans and then covered it was a gap. But the position of Germany turned out to be critical, moreover the United States also stepped into the war. The allies, using tanks, increased their onslaught. In July, the Russian army launched an offensive in the area of the western front. The Germans fought desperately, but the triple numerical superiority of the Russian troops, and the lack of shells from Germany, had an effect.
   German troops moved back here, went to Bug, and then after the resumption of the offensive and the Vistula ... There they became entrenched ... As a result, 1917 was successful for the Russian troops. In addition, impressive successes were achieved against the Turks. The Russian army reached the Mediterranean and united with the British. And in January 1918, the whole of Asia Minor was under the control of Russian troops.
   Germany found itself in a position of heavy strategic hold. And it is extremely difficult for her to escape from the clutches of the Entente. Then King William and offered to make peace with Russia and other countries. But the position of France was unequivocal: only unconditional surrender. By this time, the Austro-Hungarian army finally collapsed and the Russian troops, despite the winter in February 1918, launched an offensive on the southern flank.
   And reached the end of March to Budapest. Austria-Hungary capitulated. And on April 1, Germany announced its surrender. So ended the First World War.
   Peace talks were held in Peterhof, as a result of which Russia got itself Poznan, Klaipeda, Krakow region, Galicia, Bukovina. And from Turkey also Asia Minor with the straits, as well as Constantinople.
   Territorial conquests were considerable. In addition, Germany pledged to pay reparations to the parties.
   In Europe, several countries emerged on the site of Austria-Hungary, and Romania, in connection with Nicholas II, significantly expanded its borders. But Bulgaria has lost. The Ottoman Empire disappeared from the world map altogether. Syria became French, Iraqi English, like Palestine. Mecca and other lands in Saudi Arabia, the allies decided to share later.
   The authority of Nicholas II was strengthened and under the benevolent spirit the emperor dismissed the Duma and canceled his previous decree on elections. And so ended the era of parliamentarism in Russia ...
   Then came a series of small wars. In Afghanistan - which was shared with the British, in Iran - is also a division with Britain, and a joint company in the Middle East. As a result, the recent Islamic countries have come under the political control of the Christian world.
   For a long time until 1929 there was a period of stabilization of capitalism. Russia experienced rapid economic growth, coming in second place in industrial production and second only to the United States.
   But the Great Depression began. A strong blow to all world economies including the Russian one.
   The situation inside the country sharply worsened. The intelligentsia actively demanded democratization, liberalization, and a constitution. Everyone wanted freedom and at least some kind of democracy. In 1931, Japan announced the creation of a puppet Chinese empire in Manchuria, and invaded Shanghai.
   This was the reason for the declaration of the War of the Rising Sun. Despite all the self-confidence of the samurai, the royal troops under the command of Denikin defeated the Japanese. The situation was somewhat worse at sea, but when the squadron approached from the Baltic, under the command of Kolchak, the advantage was already on the side of Russia.
   As a result, a convincing revenge was taken for defeat in the former Russian-Japanese war. Russia regained control: Port Arthur, Manchuria, took Korea under patronage. South Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and Taiwan were also occupied by Russian troops.
   Russia became the largest Pacific power, and established hegemony on the seas. While the British Leo quickly weakened and lost their positions.
   The boy-child prodigy wanted to continue to tell, but they shouted. A dozen bikers in leather jackets cut the path of a couple that rode on scooters. Bikers looked awesome: bearded, overgrown with long hair. And something ugly said ...
   Oleg Rybachenko pulled out his pistol and cried out in the Sharikov style:
   - Indecent words can not be expressed!
   Bikers burst out laughing, opening their throats wide:
   - Like, we are afraid of you!
   In response, the boy pulled the trigger. Multicolored bubbles flew out. Once in the hairy creatures, they literally made them cluck and explode in abuse of pain. Bikers moved in different directions, howling and swearing indecent words.
   Margarita whimpered her face and remarked:
   - That's really from whom and should not take an example!
   The boy nodded in agreement and shook his pistol, answering an unasked question:
   - A kind of unstable electricity ... Very effective!
   The girl whistled and smacked the kid on the cheek, saying:
   - Yes, you're super! Made such a little thing! I knew you were a genius!
   Oleg modestly replied:
   - I'm just an inventor ... And while the government is not interested in my projects. - Here the boy spat contemptuously. - For a long time I want to go to college. In school, I have long been uninteresting!