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While Nicholas had been busy playing with his new best friend, tensions in Europe had been rising. It just so happened that in 1914, one Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Hungary, went for a drive with the top-down in Sarajevo. One thing leads to another and suddenly Russia found itself at war with half of Europe.  A wave of patriotism swept through Russia. The capital was renamed to Petrograd because St. Petersburg sounded a bit too German. Even revolutionaries were getting on board. To them, World War One was a big stinky imperialist war by a foreign one. So pretty much everyone wanted Russia to win. I hope Russia loses. Geez, read the room Lenin.  Lenin hoped Russia would lose because that would help him over through the Tsar. As long as he did that, who cares if Germany blows up half the country. And blow up half the country they did. An inefficient Tsarist government, meant there were shortages of just about everything you need to fight a war.  And if losing a teen...