Russia’s heavy losses in WWI quickened existing calls for a political revolution against the tsar, as corruption and economic stagnation left millions of Russians in misery. By contrast, America’s economy was booming during the same period, largely due to a system of free enterprise. Political “radicalism” and especially Russian “Bolshevism,” then, were seen as unnecessary and dangerous.
President Lincoln wants to preserve the union. Though he “freed the slaves” he would’ve allowed slavery to preserve the union. Which they wanted to kinda just be their own thing with slavery
