The Yellow Peril Theory - We Are the Victims

The czar was shocked, not just that the japanese had declared war, but that they had launched this war with a surprise attack against recently signed international conventions of war. Public opinion rallied to support the war effort and many embraced the yellow peril theory that russia had a special destiny to defend western civilization from the savage eastern hordes. Propaganda started being plastered everywhere, portraying the Japans as inferior little monkeys being captured or smashed by a big white fist. So in other words, we are vastly superior to you, yet also believe you pose an apocalyptic threat. This is the classic one two punch of racis paranoia. And so all over russia, the story was,