1 November 1894

and this

Poop my pants.

> Purge the complacent advisers and the older military officials that still think cavalries are the shit.
> Establish an advisory duma that has elected officials. Not be dumb enough to publicly shut it down
> Start socio-economic reforms
> Champion workers rights while at the same time providing major tax benefits to the wealthy and noble to start more business
> Build roads and trains
> Avoid war with Nipon, explore idea of invading Manchuria together
> Build up massive tank army
> Dominate WWI like everyone thought I would

run

Just forget the fucking Balkans, only pretend i care a bit to get concessions elsewhere

Resign

>Keep Alaska instead of giving it to the United States
>Do everything in my power to prevent German unification

In 1894? Pretty bold.

What are y'all planning to do with Rasputin?

I'm not letting this go. It would've been perfect.

Rasputin was a good boy.

> Purge the complacent advisers and the older military officials that still think cavalries are the shit.
Kropotkin and most of the Russian stavka knew cavalry was shit. Budyonny and the retards in the USSR thought horses were still viable for some reason. 30 years earlier, the imperial leaders knew they were just for scouts,transportation, and desperation.
> Establish an advisory duma that has elected officials. Not be dumb enough to publicly shut it down
Except the Duma is the one blocking agricultural reforms(Stolypin/Witte's program) and war mobilization(attested to by Brusilov). If you keep the Duma's, they will fuck you like they fucked Nicky. It's basically propaganda that democracy is forward thinking, it was a mistake in Russia. It was the imperialist faction that was reforming gradually.
> Start socio-economic reforms
Not with that Duma you aren't.
>Champion workers rights while at the same time providing major tax benefits to the wealthy and noble to start more business
This was the direction Imperial Russia was going anyway.
> Build roads and trains
Imperial Russia had the 30 year gap with the west, they said it would take 30 years for Russia to catch up with the average western nation proportionally(not including Godlike Netherlands or Belgium, who were small but had the most amenities). It took the Soviets about 50 years to do it... But it was the direction Russia was heading before all that mess.
>Avoid war with Nipon, explore idea of invading Manchuria together
Not bad! I agree. Alexei is going to have to suck it up and marry a nice Japanese empress or something.
> Build up massive tank army
Good stuff. Early Russia seemed to focus on building bigger, but quantity would've probably have been better for them.
> Dominate WWI like everyone thought I would
Who thought this? According to the Russians, Germany would be prepared by 1915 and Russia not until 1917. They certainly didn't expect it to be easy.

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isn't a bit late for that?

Let Rasputin fuck my wife and daughters, duh

>Except the Duma is the one blocking agricultural reforms
How so? were the Duma behind the Okhrana assassination of Stolypin.

> most of the Russian stavka knew cavalry was shit.
K. No need to get butthurt. My statement still stands. There was a lot of stagnation in the military which was highlighted by there pathetic losses in 1905 and in WWI.
> Except the Duma is the one blocking agricultural reforms(Stolypin/Witte's program)
Stolipin and Witte were highly conservative and kind of acting like the Tsars executive arm. The duma was more liberal. There were a lot of liberals and populists at the time. I would enact the liberal reforms because I dont my great-grandfather almost did it. I dont want a revolution. I still want to keep complete power, hence the ADVISORY duma.
> Yes that duma was for socioeconomic reforms
> This was the direction Imperial Russia was going anyway.
HAHAHA. Dude were your grandparents white officers or something? History claims otherwise. Let me guess, all commies are jews, uneducated freed serfs were happy being taken advantage of, and siberian prison camps didnt exist under the tsar, right?
> It took the Soviets about 50 years to do it.
... no it didnt. You are also factoring in the civil war there. It would have taken 20 years tops. Plus I could just 5 year plan it like Papa Stalin
> Glad we agree on war
> Who thought that?
I am simply referring to the West thinking they could count on Russia to come in and steam roll the germans with their numbers. I agree with what you said but if you read pre-wwi discussions and political comments. People were kinda referring to Russia as the ace in the hole. Thats why Germany worked so hard to subvert it and helped fund the revolution.

> Alexei is going to have to suck it up and marry a nice Japanese empress or something.
Russo-Japanese alliance tag teaming Warlord Era China.
Honestly a imperial alliance wasn't out of the question. The Japanese Imperial family was intermarrying with the Koreans, and Manchu/Qing.
There was even a plan for one of Meiji's son to marry the Hawaiian heir Princess Kaiulani, but she was in love with some Scot and ended up dying soon after.
Under the pretext of restoration or retaliation the Japanese could do a lot more in Russia if a civil war broke out that they were allowed to do in our time.
Would Alexei live long enough to produce an heir though?
And would being part Japanese hurt the heir from marrying other European nobility?

Fuck off to America and leave Russia for the dogs. I bet I would be able to get a qt in America

Dhit in anitasias mouth and pusy

>How so? were the Duma behind the Okhrana assassination of Stolypin.
Not the assassination. I know why you're bringing that up though. They simply blocked what they could but had to pass parts of the revised bills.
>There was a lot of stagnation in the military which was highlighted by there pathetic losses in 1905 and in WWI.
1905 was largely due to a lack of preparation which had been remedied by the opening of WW1. It was a sneak attack war. The Japanese do this sort of thing, and if you're an American that should've been obvious to you. WW1 is a mixed bag of reasons, half material half tactics. It's true though so I'll give you that: many of the division commanders were just idiots. There's really nothing I can say besides that, it's the heart of the issue. Ivanov was uninspired and Samsonov was not good at his job.
>Stolipin and Witte were highly conservative and kind of acting like the Tsars executive arm. The duma was more liberal.
Meme buzzwords. Stolypin and Witte initiated an agricultural reform, the "liberals" blocked it-hand over fist. We see time and time again the Duma blocks everything from agricultural reform, to war mobilization, to passing simple budget plans, etc. The only thing they were consistently for is removing any influence from the Church and the traditional government that's actually doing things. When you say "conservative", that's what they were conserving. For the purposes of advising, sure, but it's going to get seen for what it is and that might inflame the far leftist extremists.
>Dude were your grandparents white officers or something?
Pic related I guess

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>History claims otherwise
If that were true, you would state a single case as proof. Instead, I have a bunch of cases that prove the Duma and democracy were ill suited to the job, and you haven't refuted a single one.
>all commies are jews
Many were. I think that's well established by now.
>uneducated freed serfs
Serfdom was ended in 1861, two years before America freed it's slaves. You really don't know anything do you?
>siberian prison camps didnt exist under the tsar
I think you're implying that the prison system was the same as the Soviet Gulag here. The Soviets literally had entire colonies of exiles and slave laborers, so there's that. Ironic that the Empire freed it's serfs decades before but it took commies to make it worse with slavery.
>You are also factoring in the civil war there. It would have taken 20 years tops
Based on? I've never read that anywhere. I guess you know more than the Imperial economic advisers and ministers though.
>Plus I could just 5 year plan it like Papa Stalin
None of the Soviet 5 year plans ever accomplished the goals determined at their initialization. Also it took the Soviets 50 years to do what the empire planned to do in 30, so that wouldn't be advisable.
>People were kinda referring to Russia as the ace in the hole
....Which people? I'm not even asking for citations and sauce, I just want to know who thought this.

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>>You are also factoring in the civil war there. It would have taken 20 years tops
Also the problem with this is that the 30 year gap number comes directly from Imperial times and the Soviets based their target goals on it. It does not take into account anything the communists did in 1917 or after.

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>Russia invades Mexico
>America intervenes
>Russia and the US agree to split up Mexico into spheres of influence
>Mexico becomes an industrialized multicultural nation with strong ties to Russia
>The resulting diplomatic effort means the US never starts the Spanish-American war
>Spanish Empire never collapses
>Cuba is colonized by Iberians
>America never receives the flood of Hispanic immigrants it did today
>No Cuban missile crisis because Spain is fascist
>Communism never rises anywhere
>Modern world becomes a utopia with free tacos for all

> duma was obstructive
I am not refuting you because we have different opinions on the duma. Stolypin and other conservatives were making changes that were not good enough and essentially trying to keep the status quo and enacting reversible changes. The duma saw through that and was trying to hold their feet to the fire so that they would actually make meaningful reform. They way you interpret that part of history depends purely on your own political perception and seeing as my grandparents fought for the reds, imma go with the duma on this one.
> Serfdom was ended in 1861
What part of "uneducated freed serfs" did you not understand, you retard. We are talking about 1984. There were a ton of former serfs around not mention their offspring. 83% of the Russian population was uneducated in the late 19th century.
> The soviet union made strides decades before anyone else in workers rights, womens rights, environmentalism, race equality, space exploration, advancement of science in general, but yeah because they had prison camps like literally everyone else they were worse than a feudal form of slavery. Ok, bud.
> None of the Soviet 5 year plans ever accomplished the goals determined at their initialization. Also it took the Soviets 50 years to do what the empire planned to do in 30, so that wouldn't be advisable.
The empire planned a lot of shit and acted on none of it. And are you really claiming that the 5 year plans were failures?
> I'm not even asking for citations and sauce, I just want to know who thought this.
I literally told you were I got this from. If I had to specify I would guess british and american public analysis of the tension preceding WWI.

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> They simply blocked what they could but had to pass parts of the revised bills.

Can you go into more detail about this? looking at the first and second dumas the Tzar was the one doing the blocking until he went back on his words and changed the electoral principles.

>The Kadets were among the only political parties capable of consistently drawing voters due to their relatively moderate political stance. The Kadets drew from an especially urban population, often failing to draw the attention of rural communities who were instead committed to other parties.[3]

The Duma ran for 73 days until 8 July 1906, with little success.[4] The Tsar and his loyal Prime Minister Ivan Goremykin were keen to keep it in check, and reluctant to share power; the Duma, on the other hand, wanted continuing reform, including electoral reform, and, most prominently, land reform.[2] Sergei Muromtsev, Professor of Law at Moscow University, was elected Chairman.[5] Lev Urusov held a famous speech.[6] Scared by this liberalism, the Tsar dissolved the Duma, reportedly saying 'curse the Duma. It is all Witte's doing'. The same day, Pyotr Stolypin was named as the new Prime Minister.[2]

Looking at the second

>Even so, Stolypin and the Duma could not build a working relationship, being divided on the issues of land confiscation (which the socialists and, to a lesser extent, the Kadets, supported but the Tsar and Stolypin vehemently opposed) and Stolypin's brutal attitude towards law and order.[2]

Establish a parliament and hand over power because in reality anyone here would be a worse ruler than Nicholas was in reality.