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 | | Alexander I, the tsar of Russia, of the Orthodox faith, also wanted an international order based on Christianity, and he talked the emperor of Prussia, a Protestant, and the emperor of Austria, a Roman Catholic, into joining him in what was called a Holy Alliance. |
 | | The Congress of Vienna was the response to the Napoleonic wars, and for conservatives a response to the godless French Revolution. |
 | | Metternich, the primary architect of the Vienna Accords, realized the threat to his conservative order, and he believed that repression was necessary to hold the enemies of his order in check. |
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