Aleksey nodded and said with a smile:
"I think so too, because that's what I thought at the time."
"Looking at the body of that Austria-Hungary boy, I felt very absurd. If their country also advocates glory, wealth, and status."
"Our country also advocates glory, wealth, and status."
"Then the question arises...."
"Where do these things come from?"
"I started to feel lost, but didn't know what to do."
"Until that moment."
"Back then, because of regime change within the Tsarist Empire, we withdrew from World War I."
"Just like that, we withdrew."
"And then.... I realized I was deceived, the so-called glory, status, wealth, was just empty talk from the mouths of those politicians."
"They fooled millions into fighting and dying for them."
"I had no face to return to my hometown, afraid of how my constantly drunken father would ridicule me."
"Previously, I couldn't understand why he acted that way."
