Who would you have supported in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)?

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A lot of socialists supported and fought for the cause of liberation that Russia was also using to frame their opportunistic hit against the Ottoman Empire.

Regardless of the later European colonialism and cases of poor border drawing by European powers, the Ottoman Empire was an evil slave state hellbent on maintaining awful feudal relations no matter if it took heed from larping as pious rulers operating under god’s rule or nationalists following the right of conquest.

Modern Russia is a mish-mash of 1900s White emigre cringelords and Gilded Age repackaged nonsense dead in the United States by the 80s, engaging in an imperialistic war which has regressively empowered their Ukrainian counterparts from following a similar playbook. There is no evidence of Russia winning this war leading to human progression, and weak evidence of its happening at all leading to a positive outcome.

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You all already know my answer...

1913 would have only been disastrous if the Young Turks won or the Ottomans would have returned an existing political force, the end of the Ottomans and suicidal murders of the Young Turks helped ushered in a beautiful world without either. Shame the derivative Kemalism still lived and there were any more Shah’s.