Reply To: The Casualties of Yiddish in Litvishe Chadorim

770. you have it the opposite. The Baal HaTanya thought that Nikolai I ym”s would be better for ruchniyut because Napoleon wanted to make the Jews equal citizens on condition that they renounce national aspirations. In the end the aforementioned rasha instituted the Cantonist program. So we still have Chabad dancing at two weddings.