How to Break the Trenches (1)

Constantinople.

An oxygen respirator for the gasping empire.

A ray of light after long hardship for all industrial zone capitalists between Moscow and Donbas.

A city that makes frontline soldiers feel they're writing new history alongside General Brusilov.

Though Ottoman forces' resistance continues and complete occupation still needs several more months, perhaps it's not strange that one city resonates more than Poland.

"The, the Constantinople Patriarch has come into our Orthodox Church's hands?"

"Rome? Pope? Get lost! Now only our Eastern Orthodox Church is truth!"

"The Western Church without tradition and full of division? We'll show them religious unification led by Orthodoxy!"

First, the Orthodox believers and church making up 70% of the empire went into uproar.

Poland's farmland, railways spreading to Central Europe, ports extending to the North Sea - there's much to gain but...