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the Turks. And it is only natural that in these wars the national and religious stimulus overrode any other passions and impulses in the soldiers.
Such was the Russian soldier and such were the principles and forms of discipline in the Russian army. And it should have been clear enough, after the terrible experience of the Russo-Japanese war, that the Russian army was hardly fitted to stand the test of a prolonged war of moral endurance and tenacity.
