Because, after all, European Russia is part of Europe and will have an enormous influence on Asian affairs as well.

毕竟俄帝国的欧洲部分也是欧陆的一部分,它也将会在亚洲事务方面,产生极大影响

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What happens in Russia is what happens in Prussia, as well, and in other parts of Eastern Europe, particularly in the Hapsburg domains--you have, to make a very bad pun, a resurfacing of the region by people forced into serf contracts.

在普鲁士发生了与俄国一样的事情,东欧的其他地区也是一样,特别是哈布斯堡王朝的领域,说个不好的双关语吧,被迫签下契约变成农奴的人们把这些地区改头换面了

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