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The Isolation of Russia: Prelude to War
By the mid-1930s, the atmosphere in Europe was tense as nations recognized something fundamentally amiss within Russia. Although Russia had successfully extinguished the Bolshevik Revolution over a decade earlier, it had not fully recovered. The Russian Empire entered a phase of self-imposed isolation, largely attributed to the mounting paranoia of the Tsar. This isolation sparked suspicions of a deeper, possibly militaristic agenda, prompting the formation of the United European Defense (UED) to counter potential threats.