1772 to 1917 my man. Russia could not afford to "behave nice" back then. Every 100 years or so some European idiot monarch would hatch a harebrained scheme to a

1772 to 1917 my man. Russia could not afford to "behave nice" back then. Every 100 years or so some European idiot monarch would hatch a harebrained scheme to attack it, only to get his ass handed to him a few years later. https://www.google.com/search?q=belarus+part+of+russian+empire&oq=belaru&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j0j69i57j0l2j69i61j69i60l2.7519j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=belarus+part+of+russian+empi...