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which it annexed Bessarabia and finally liberated Greece, Serbia, and Moldova, which were given autonomy. Then followed the seizure of Lithuania, the division of Poland, the liberation of Bulgaria, a 20-year war against Muslim states in the deserts near the Caspian Sea, and the annexation of Central Asia. Finland was the final trophy.Russia's last emperor, Nikolai II, considered it necessary to declare once again that Russia had reached its limits and ordered the emblem to be decorated with symbols of peace. The eagle's wings were decorated with the emblems of the states annexed by Russia: the Kazan, Astrakhan, Siberian, Polish, and Finnish kingdoms and the Tauric Chersonese.
It seemed enough. It seemed that the heavy golden bird would never again fly in the sky of war.
But Russian history took a sharp turn. After the 1917 October revolution, the old emblem was abolished and a new emblem of the Soviet Union appeared. It depicted the Earth (although
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