Quote#Politics & Power
An agreement between Russia and the German foe of for joint action,…
Quote byOtto von Bismarck · 1815–1898
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman (1898), Volume I, pp. 342–343.
English (original)
An agreement between Russia and the German foe of for joint action, military and political, against the Polish ‘Bruderstamm’ movement was a decisive blow to the views of the philo-Polish party at the Russian court. ... The convention said ‘checkmate’ in the game which anti-Polish monarchism was then playing against philo-Polish Panslavism within the Russian cabinet.
— Otto von Bismarck
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