Here is the map for Spring 1901. Everyone is invited to use this thread as a general "shoutbox" to say whatever you like to everyone - remember that this is all public knowledge!
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P R A W D A
Bringing the truth to all of the Motherland
Issue: Spring 1901
MOSCOW, RUSSIA - A wild-eyed, crazed preacher appeared on the Red Square, screaming at the top of his lungs about the Crusades proclamation of Pope Pius X and trying to agitate the peasantry. Our brave constabulary quickly subdued and sacked him.
Czar Nicholas II. lets all of his subjects know that these agitations have to be dismissed as the feverish whisperings of Italian Jesuits attempting to sway the peasantry to participate in an ill-planned and disastrous lemming march. Our foreign correspondent in Rome, Piotr Spagettokoff, has the following insight to add: "Of course you know that it is ill-organized - it are the Italians organizing it."
Patriarch Macarius II. backs up our beloved Czar in this endeavour. "The Orthodox Church of all Russians never got involved in the Crusades as the Turk has always been our natural friend in the East. The fit is perfectly obvious: He doesn't drink, so this leaves more for us."