Russia mainly studies western European culture, including clothing.
Cossack cavalry is the most elite unit in the Russian army, and Napoleon envied this light cavalry unit very much.
Russia has great admiration for Peter the Great, whose main reform is military reform.
Russia defeated Napoleon in the Napoleonic Wars, which made no other country in Europe comparable. At this time, Russia is the European gendarmerie.
The most influential time in the Russian era was around 1850 after the Napoleonic wars. At that time, the czar was called the European gendarmerie. At that time, when there was a revolution in any European country, the Tsar always went there with Cossack cavalry, especially in Eastern Europe. The fear and disgust of Russia in Eastern Europe is closely related to the czar, a European gendarme, such as Hungarian poet petofi and Polish Chopin. Petofi was only killed by Russian troops, and so was Chopin. However, Russia's influence was limited to Europe, and its expansion to the west and south met with strong resistance, and some even sent troops directly by Britain and France, such as the Crimean War. Compared with Britain and France, Russia is still a relatively backward country, so if Britain and France intervene, Russia will really fail. However, even if a war broke out between Russia and Britain and France, it was a so-called dynasty war. Both sides will control the scale of the war and there will be normal contacts and exchanges after the war. Russian aristocrats still live in Paris. When they fought against France, they went back to Russia to fight and lived in Paris after the war.
However, after the industrialization of western Europe, Russia fell behind. At first, the Russians didn't think so, but in the Crimean War, Russia was defeated. One of the important reasons is that the Russian army lags behind Britain and France in military technology.
It should be said that the main influence of Russia at that time was military, especially after the Napoleonic Wars. What's the name of Russia? European gendarmerie? .
The five-year plan of the Soviet Union is now to eliminate counter-revolutionaries and famine, but industrialization based on grain piles has turned the Soviet Union from an agricultural country to an industrial country during the two five-year plans. It also laid a solid material foundation for the military achievements of World War II. At the same time, social welfare systems such as universal medical care and old-age care have also greatly influenced western countries. Like Dr. Bethune, it was only after he arrived in the Soviet Union that he discovered that his pursuit was becoming a reality in the Soviet Union, which made Bethune a firm producer.
However, the Soviet Union is different. The influence of the Soviet Union after World War II was indeed the first military achievement. Western countries can be said to be a big day, but it was the Soviet Red Army that conquered Berlin. Before the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Soviet troops stationed in Eastern Europe, especially Berlin, reminded this point all the time.
At that time, the influence of the Soviet Union was not limited to military achievements. As early as the 1930s, the Soviet Union had a certain influence in Europe, especially among intellectuals. Red thirties? The main reason is that the west was there? Great depression? During the period, but the Soviet Union was accelerating at that time? Five-year plan The situation in our country is getting better and better. Of course, in this process, there have also been some problems of agricultural collectivization, which have caused great damage to the interests of farmers. However, great progress was made during the Soviet Union and Russia. The attraction of this new system had a great influence on the troubled western countries at that time, a bit like China recently.