However, this was clearly a good thing for East Africa and the other Imperialist countries. Without these people, the Soviet Union's capacity to disrupt the international order would have been far too great.
Their heroes were our enemies. Compared with those cosmopolitan idealists, the Soviet Union's extreme nationalists were far more pleasing to the eye.
In fact, not only the Soviet Union—apart from Britain and France, most other great powers did not mind the collapse of the current international order. They merely hoped to take Britain and France's place.
As 1928 quietly arrived.
A sweeping transformation unfolded across the Middle Eastern region. A series of reform measures issued by the Ottoman Empire's Kemalist government formally came into effect and were implemented in the Ottoman Empire, a nation already gravely ill beyond cure.
And the first stroke of this Iron-blooded Dictator of the Ottoman Empire fell upon the Arab religion, which had sunk deep roots into the Ottoman Empire.
Unlike ordinary reformers, although Kemal was young and a newcomer who had only recently stepped onto the political stage, his control over the country was not the least bit weak. His greatest source of confidence was the Ottoman Empire army.
Born of the military, holding military power in his hands, and brimming with ideals and vigor—what would happen next could already be somewhat foreseen.
Istanbul, Topkapi Palace.
Kemal was "exchanging views" with Mehmed VII, the Ottoman Empire's new Sultan. The old Sultan, Mehmed VI, had not survived the previous year.
It was not that the Kemalist government had tampered with anything. Mehmed VI had indeed died of illness, though the coup may have hastened the process.
Thus, his young son became the Empire's new Sultan under Kemal's backing: Mehmed VII.
Lying on a sofa, the dictator Kemal said to Mehmed VII,