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vocation of giving freedom and unity to the
Sclavs. But this undertaking stands in direct
opposition to the policy which was expressed in
the partition of Poland.
Russia’s future rôle may be to favour a
confederation of all the Sclav peoples. Her
true mission cannot be to subdue or trample
down any Sclav nationality, but much rather
to emancipate them all. Emancipate from
what? From the yoke of Turkey and of
Germany. So far as the former is concerned,
a great part of the work has been already
carried out. With regard to the Germans,
Russia cannot think of the restoration of the
disputed and long obliterated boundaries of the
Sclav races, which were lost in the struggle
with the Germans; but she may assist the
organization of the bodies politic of the Sclav
races, and co-operate in revivifying those
branches of the nation which are not altogether
dead.
The author desires, therefore, that Poland
should be restored by Russia’s own act.
Yet Poland must not demand her boundaries
as they were before 1772 (that is, the
possession of Lithuania). Once admitted into a
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