The entry of military Russia in 1916

The military actions in 1915 led to the final stabilization of the front and to the positional forms of war on all the main fronts of the first imperialist war. This year, the efforts of the central powers were shifted to the eastern theater of operations, where they hoped to achieve decisive success and lead Russia out of the war. In the western theater, Germany limited itself to defense in order to hold its positions and pin down the enemy forces.


Russia's allies, Britain and France, planned minor operations of exclusively local importance. They focused all their attention on giving rest to the troops, accumulating reserves and, having rebuilt industry in a military manner, providing the army with sufficient weapons and only after that moving on to decisive action.


The whole of 1915 was marked by a lull in hostilities in the west and their maximum intensification in the east. At the same time, economically and politically backward tsarist Russia was, from a military-technical point of view, essentially abandoned to the mercy of fate by its allies and forced to wage an unequal struggle with the armies of the central powers on its own.


But despite the clear superiority in forces, the central Powers did not achieve decisive success. All the achievements of the German-Austrian command were reduced to gaining territory, but it was not possible to withdraw Russia from the war. The Russian army managed to get out from under the enemy's enveloping blows, retained its manpower and was able to continue the war. The German-Austrian armies, having exhausted their forces, were stopped, and both sides dug into the ground. The positional warfare began on the Russian front.


Although Russia managed to avoid defeat, its single combat with the central powers ended with severe consequences for it. Weak industry did not meet the needs of the war. The famine in the fire mines has reached great proportions. There was a shortage of weapons in the army and there was nothing to arm the reinforcements, who were thrown to the front completely unprepared. Transport turned out to be shaky and did not meet the needs of the country and the population. The situation in agriculture was also difficult. The Russian economy clearly did not meet the increased needs of the war, when it was necessary to supply millions of armies. Industrial centers began to suffer from a shortage of food and raw materials. Meanwhile, the Allied assistance was limited and could not cover the deficiencies in the supply of the army.


The discontent of the masses was growing in the country. The ferment also penetrated the army, where individual military units refused to comply with the demands of the officers. Anti-war sentiments were spreading to wider and wider masses of working people.


Under such conditions, tsarist Russia entered the year 1916. In December 1916, military representatives of the Allied countries gathered in Chantilly to develop a general plan of action. At this conference, although no specific operational plan was adopted, the participants nevertheless agreed that the outcome of the war should be sought in its main theaters and that the offensive should be conducted in a coordinated manner. The beginning of it was made dependent on climatic conditions, as well as the position of the enemy and political circumstances. Later, when specifying the dates, the beginning of the offensive was assigned to July 1. Russia was also supposed to take part in the offensive, from which the allies demanded new victims. Thus, Russia was forced to prepare for new offensive actions on a large scale. So, we have listed the sports and casino bonus rules in this section. The bookmaker 1win offers several options for using the 1win promo code claim a 500% bonus up to 130$ on sports betting and 30% cashback on casino games today. With the 1win sports deposit bonus, you can get 500% of your deposit as a welcome bonus after using the bonus code 1win. Participating in this offer has no minimum deposit limit. With all the details of 1win welcome bonuses for sports betting and casino games, let us now give you quick steps to claim them.