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Difficulties in the immigration work did not come as a surprise to Franz. It was an inevitable outcome, beyond the power of any individual to stop.
In the Polish Region, there were millions of refugees whom the Russians were unable to aid; to maintain stability in the area, there were only two options: expulsion or slaughter.
The Russians could only choose expulsion. It wasn't that the Tsarist Government lacked the courage to wield the butcher's knife, but rather that doing so would surely invite international intervention.
It was now the late 19th century, and the rules of the game had been established; wanton violation of these rules would surely lead to ostracization by the European world.
In its heyday, the Russian Empire cared little for offending the European world but the situation was now different. As the Prusso-Russian War had not yet ended, the Tsarist Government did not wish to be diplomatically isolated and thus had to play by the rules.
