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To strengthen Russia’s position, Nicholas I looked to the Orthodox populations in the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire, with his naval minister, Alexander Menshikov, demanding in 1853 that Russia be named an official protector of the Ottoman Empire’s 12 million Orthodox citizens.

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We need to re-educate ourselves around the things that matter, we need to work outside of our comfort zones more, and we need to be better citizens in our own backyard.

It stands out because this was the first time in American history that American citizens had to flee the land of their birth just to be recognized as the citizens that they had always been.

No other group of Americans has had to act like immigrants in order to be recognized as citizens.

Remember, putatively free American citizens.

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