The myth that the Bolsheviks destroyed tsarist Russia
Among the myths that are created and maintained to distort stories Russia, a special place is occupied by the view that the October revolution of Lenin’s “German spy” destroyed the old, tsarist Russia. They say that it is the Bolsheviks who are guilty of the fact that the Russian empire perished. The February revolution is usually not mentioned or not considered a negative phenomenon in the history of Russia. Supposedly, February was supposed to bring Russia freedom, make it a prosperous European power, and October led to the Civil War and the victory of the "bloody Bolsheviks" who soon created a new totalitarian "slave" empire.
According to the Liberal Democrats, the lumpen proletariat, the “red plague” and criminals released from prisons have destroyed a prosperous world leader leading to an unprecedented takeoff of their culture. The Reds unleashed the Civil War and destroyed the “color of the nation” - the officers (they forget that almost half of the officers of Tsarist Russia fought on the side of the Red Army and that without military experts the Reds had no chance of victory), aristocracy, nobility, intelligentsia, clergy, merchants and prosperous peasantry. The Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, as a Mongol-Tatar horde, marched through the flourishing Russia with fire and sword, turning it into ruins. As a result, the communist yoke was established for seven decades.
However, the myth-makers consciously close their eyes or lead away from some fundamental facts. In Russia, by 1917, there was a real revolutionary situation. A number of deep contradictions inherent in the Romanov empire during its creation, rushed to 1917 in the year like a real atomic bomb and led to a terrible catastrophe. Russian civilization then was on the verge of death. External enemies already triumphed and divided the skin, as it seemed, of a dead bear. Japan, France, England, USA, Romania, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Finland and even the artificial weak Baltic republics tried to snatch a piece from Russia.
Anyone more or less familiar with the history of the Romanov empire can quite easily identify ten most difficult problems that hindered the development of tsarist Russia, undermined its stability and could sooner or later lead to confusion. This is the existence in Russia of as many as three separate worlds — the westernized privileged class, the people proper — an enormous mass of peasants, workers and burghers, and the world of the Old Believers. This is a huge financial weight of debt, which restrained the development of Russia and caused its dependence on the West. This is the final formalization of official Orthodoxy, when the church became part of the state apparatus, having practically lost the Spirit. This is a huge cultural, educational and material gap between the privileged classes and the masses. This is an agrarian question that the reform of 1861 (which even worsened the situation in some respects) and the reforms of Stolypin could not solve it so. This is a working question. This is a problem of national regions, when the lack of a consistent policy on the Russification and elimination of the "weeds" of separatism led to the creation of dangerous revolutionary centers in Finland, Poland and the South Caucasus. This is the absence of a full-fledged and unified security policy that would be able to neutralize the attempts of the internal "fifth column" and external forces to destroy the empire. This is the need for accelerated industrialization caused by the military and economic weakness of Russia, which was revealed by the war with Japan. Suffice it to recall the “shell and rifle hunger”, the lack of ammunition, heavy guns, machine guns, ammunition (including boots), and much more. You can continue for a long time. Tsarist Russia was seriously ill.
Detonator revolution
However, Russia and in such a painful state could still exist for a long time and get a chance for modernization, including led by the king. The big bang needed a detonator that would reveal all the ulcers lurking in Russian life. Even the Russian-Japanese war, although it was somewhere on the outskirts of the empire and did not affect most of the people, shook the empire, exacerbated socio-economic contradictions, made it possible for various revolutionary forces to intensify their activities, caused the 1905-1907 revolution.
Russia's external enemies saw and understood everything perfectly. The war with Japan has become a test balloon. It was necessary to draw Russia into a more serious conflict in order to intensify all internal contradictions and to destroy the two most dangerous for the owners of the Anglo-Saxon project of power - the German and Russian empires. According to the owners of the “liberal-democratic” capitalist world, the monarchies, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, were also subject to demolition. Their aristocratic and semi-feudal regimes were “outdated” and had to become a thing of the past. Standing behind France, England and the United States "gold (financial) International" or so-called. "World backstage", solved three main tasks. First, for the domination of their global project, it was necessary to destroy the powers carrying the potential of giving birth to an alternative project. Especially dangerous was the strategic alliance of industrialized Germany and Russia, which had almost unlimited resource potential. In particular, then in terms of population, Russia was second only to China and India and could retain third place, reaching the level of 400-500 million people in several decades. The Ottoman Empire (the sultan was at the same time caliph — the head of all Muslims) carried the potential for the development of an Islamic project. But for this, both Russia and Turkey needed to get out of dependence on the West, primarily in the sphere of culture, education, science, technology, to create an independent industrial base, for which they had the necessary resource base.
Russia was for the masters of the West the most dangerous, since more than once direct military attempts to subjugate the Russian people suffered a complete collapse. Direct force, like Indian cultures, India and China through the opium wars, Russia could not be subjugated. The military power of Russia frightened the West. Therefore, the “Russian question” was planned (as it is now planned) to be solved comprehensively. They were going to dismember Russia, partly give it to neighboring countries (like Romania and Finland), partly divided into spheres of influence. In particular, the American "sharks" laid claim to Siberia.
Secondly, in order to facilitate the subordination and "digestion" of the territories of fallen empires, they were planned to be divided into "independent, national and democratic states." The wreckage of fallen empires was easier to build into the New World Order. Nothing has actually changed at the present time. The division of Sudan into two parts, with the continuation of the internal conflict, the disintegration of Libya and Iraq, the war in Syria, the collapse of the territory of Georgia, the collapse of Little Russia - all these are links of one chain. Small debris that are in constant conflict with their neighbors is an excellent material for a Western globalization project. Small “sovereign” states that have a lot of internal and external conflicts and problems cannot offer significant resistance to the builders of “New Babylon”.
Thirdly, democracy is very convenient for manipulating the masses. Practically all mass media, especially significant ones, are under the control of large magnates, oligarchs. Financial circles in one way or another finance leading politicians, public figures, political parties and movements. Without funding, it is impossible to conduct a successful presidential or parliamentary election campaign. The media allows you to form the necessary public opinion in financial circles, to create fashion and tastes, etc. As a result, money bags remain in the shadows, but they have real power. And the people formally "free" and "freely" vote for those candidates who are satisfied with the "golden elite". What this ultimately leads to, we can see by the example of the modern United States and European countries, where any misery or parsley-fool can become the governor or president, but they are not the ones who determine the real policy.
At the same time, the “golden elite” constantly lowers the spiritual and intellectual level of the subordinate population so that there are no social protests. There is a clear system of separation of education: the “elite” has one level of knowledge, the “dedicated” (to members of various elite organizations, clubs and lodges) another, the people as a whole have only partial knowledge without having a solid vision of the situation. A very good example is the United States. There, from about 1960-ies, a strategy of stupor, debilization of the masses has been working. The choice of tools is very wide - from anesthesia and alcoholism to stupid music, moronic shows and TV programs, now the involvement of people in “virtual worlds” plays a big role. The sexual revolution plays a very important role in the degradation of the masses, when relations between men and women are reduced to the level of primitive promiscuity (promiscuous sexual relations), and families are destroyed.
The distant future is an “electronic concentration camp” when people will be completely dependent on virtual reality, having lost contact with the real world. How quickly these degradation processes are developing can be seen in the same States. Americans 1940-ies are soldiers, pilots, sailors, engineers, builders and scientists, strong-willed, intelligent and strong nation. Americans of the 1990-2000 model are “vegetables”, degenerate perverts of all stripes, pacifists, tolerastov, drug addicts, criminals, sexual instinct-obsessed individuals, infantiles, etc. However, this situation threatens the loss of controllability, so as the quality of the elite also falls. With the further realization of such a scenario, the West may fall into the trap and everything will end very badly. Similar scenarios are described in some works of the post-apocalyptic genre.
Unfortunately, after 1991, a similar strategy was begun to be implemented in Russia, where there is a separation of the education system for the “elect” (or the rich children study abroad) and all the rest. At the same time, the liberals, who still control the sphere of education, took Western standards, such as the USE and the Bologna system, as a model, which led to a serious drop in the educational level of the last generations. The catastrophe has not yet occurred, but only due to the Soviet foundation and the sabotage of the ordinary teaching masses. However, the critical limit is already close.
Russia was extremely dangerous to enter the First World War. The society was divided, struck by mutual hatred. Inside the country there were a lot of parties, movements and structures that wanted radical changes and even the destruction of the empire. The country's economy was not ready for war. This was perfectly understood by the head of the government, Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin and the village peasant, personifying peasant Russia - Grigory Efimovich Rasputin, and many other visionary figures. The war with Germany was initially incomprehensible and is not needed by the Russian people, like the previous lost war with Japan. In this war, the Russians acted as "cannon fodder" of England and France. It turned out that Russia practiced foreign loans in this way. The Western powers at first wanted to set Russia and Germany at bay, using the “Russian ram” to crush the power of the German Empire, and then provoke an internal conflict, a palace coup or a revolution to profit by the fallen powers.
Back in February, Peter Nikolayevich Durnovo, the right-wing Russian leader, handed Nicholas II a letter in February 1914, in which he predicted the nature of the war and the future of Russia if she was drawn into the war. Durnovo correctly noted that this war "is the rivalry between England and Germany." The rapid development of Germany led to the emergence of a mortal danger to the industrial and economic well-being of England. "Naturally, England cannot surrender without a fight, and the struggle between her and Germany is inevitable not for life, but for death." England and Germany, because of their geographical location, are not sufficiently vulnerable to each other. Therefore, the British, as they have done more than once in the past, will look for "cannon fodder" in Europe.
After the Russian-Japanese war, despite the active sabotage of England in this war, when the British supported Japan with all their might, Russia went towards rapprochement with Britain. As Durnovo further noted, Russia will not receive any real benefits from rapprochement with England. “The only plus — improved relations with Japan — is hardly a consequence of the Russian-English rapprochement. In essence, Russia and Japan are created in order to live in peace, since they have absolutely nothing to divide. All the tasks of Russia in the Far East, correctly understood, are completely compatible with the interests of Japan. (Russia and Japan in 1904 were simply poisoned, as Russia and Germany in 1914 was the author). These tasks, in essence, are reduced to very modest limits. The far too wide imagination of presumptuous performers who had no basis for the real interests of the state - on the one hand, the excessive nervousness and impressionability of Japan, which mistakenly took these fantasies as a consistent plan, on the other hand, caused a clash that more skillful diplomacy could have avoided ” .
Durnovo quite correctly noted that Japanese desires would be directed southward, towards the Philippine Islands, Indochina, Java, Sumatra and Borneo (the way it happens). With the normal development of relations, without the provoking intervention of external forces, “peaceful cohabitation, I will say more, a close rapprochement between Russia and Japan in the Far East is quite natural.”
The situation was similar in Europe. The rapprochement between Russia and Britain worsened its position in the Balkans and in the Middle East, including Porto, where Austria and Germany intensified their policies. Turkey, concerned about the union of Russia with England and the possibility of the British refusing the traditional closure policy of the Dardanelles for the Russians, as well as the creation of a hostile to the Ottomans of the Balkan Union under the auspices of Russia, collapsed into the arms of the Germans. The rapprochement of Russia with England inevitably promised us an armed clash with Germany.
According to Durnovo, “the vital interests of Russia and Germany do not collide anywhere, and provide a complete basis for the peaceful coexistence of these two states.” Germany is more interested in pressing England on the seas and in the colonies, rather than in the colonization of vast Russian territories. All the resources of Russia, which are necessary for Germany, she easily received in peacetime. It makes no sense for Russia to conquer Polish lands, since this will reinforce the “Polish problem” within the empire. Galicia was in the same position. As noted by Durnovo: “It is clearly unprofitable for us, in the name of the idea of national sentimentalism, to attach to our fatherland an area that has lost any living connection with it. After all, on an insignificant handful of Russians in the spirit of the Galicians, how many Poles, Jews, Ukrainian Uniates will we get? ”At present, the Ukrainian or Mazepa movement was weak and shouldn’t be strengthened. And during the war this movement would inevitably intensify. During the war, the embryo of "extremely dangerous Little Russian separatism" could reach "completely unexpected sizes."
To solve the problem of the straits it was not necessary to fight. For trade, the straits during the world were open. In addition, the Ottoman Empire itself was on the verge of death. You could just wait for favorable conditions to solve this problem. It is obvious that Berlin himself would willingly go on this issue towards Petersburg, to buy our neutrality during the conflict between England and Germany. In Transcaucasia, Russia did not necessarily have to fight for Western Armenia, which was part of Turkey, this was not part of the range of national tasks. In addition, as with the straits, here we could find an understanding of Germany if the Ottoman Empire collapsed. At the same time, we had a lot of controversial zones with the British - the same straits, Persia, Pamir, Kashgaria, Dzungaria and Mongolia.
In the economic sphere, Russia and Germany had solid points of contact and common interests. To conclude a trade agreement with Germany that was quite acceptable for Russia, it was not necessary to tear each other's throats. It was quite enough to establish good-neighborly relations, thoughtfully weigh the common economic interests. Russia needed Germany’s technology, including the military. The military defeat of Germany and the degradation of its economy were beneficial only to Britain and France. England was beneficial to kill the German maritime trade and industry. France dreamed of crushing German industry and, if possible, dismembering Germany, turning it into a poor agricultural region. For Russia, the catastrophic weakening of Germany was not profitable, as it repeatedly strengthened the Western bloc of powers - France, England and the USA. The competition between England and Germany was beneficial to us, as was the open domestic market of the German Empire.
Russia also benefited from German colonization, the development and emergence of new German colonies, as this turned Drang nach Osten into an area of historical memories. In addition, as shown by historical experience, the vast Russian Empire would not have suffered even with the appearance of thousands of new German colonists. Very quickly they would become “Russian Germans”, as it happened with the Germans in the Volga region and in the Baltic States, and would faithfully serve their new homeland.
It is also worth noting that national (rather than international) German capital was needed by Russia to modernize the economy. German capital is more profitable for us than any other. German capital is the cheapest of all, as content with the lowest percentage of profits. In addition, German capitalists often moved to Russia (unlike the British and the British), took root and a significant part of the capital remained in the country. Other foreigners tried to withdraw everything from Russia to the last penny.
Unlike most politicians and military, who promised a “easy walk” and spoke of a quick war, Durnovo noted that “the struggle against Germany presents enormous difficulties for us and will require innumerable victims. The war will not take the enemy by surprise, and the degree of his readiness will probably exceed our most exaggerated expectations. ”
Durnovo quite correctly predicted: “The main burden of the war will undoubtedly fall to our lot, since England is hardly capable of taking a wide part in the continental war, and France, poor in human material, with the enormous losses that will accompany the war under modern conditions military equipment is likely to follow strictly defensive tactics. The role of the battering ram, piercing through the thickest German defense, we will get ... " The right-wing activist clearly noted that the war would lead to complications in Persia, in the Caucasus, in Turkestan, "very unpleasant complications should be foreseen in Poland and Finland." Durnovo predicted that we could not keep Poland during the war. And when she finds herself in the grip of her opponents, she is immediately used against us (everything just happened).
Durnovo directly said that Russia is not ready for war. Military stocks are few, as the productivity of factories is weak. Durnovo predicts that “in the rudimentary state of our industry, during the war we will not be able to fill in the gaps that have been discovered ...”. And with the blockade of the Black and Baltic Seas, the situation will worsen even more. Another unfavorable factor for our defense is excessive dependence on foreign industry. The army lacks heavy guns, machine guns, the equipment of fortresses is not completed. The network of strategic railways is not developed, rolling stock for wartime conditions is not enough.
The war will lead to huge financial expenses. As a result, you will have to get even more into external financial bondage. In the event of a loss, the financial and economic consequences are incalculable and will lead to the complete collapse of the national economy. However, the victory does not promise special benefits. Ruined and destroyed Germany will not be able to pay reparations (so be it). Britain and France will do everything to oust Russia from dividing the skins of dead German bears (Germany and Austria). This will not allow us to cover our military expenses. And meanwhile, loans will have to pay. Moreover, on the Straits issue, England and France can create an anti-Russian coalition. As a result, Russia will fall into such financial and economic bondage, "compared to which our present dependence on German capital will seem ideal."
Durnovo rightly pointed out that the all-European war, regardless of its outcome, is "a mortal danger for both Russia and Germany", as it will lead to a social revolution. Defeat is especially dangerous, then "a social revolution, in its most extreme manifestations, is inevitable here." A demoralized army that lost its most reliable cadre during the war and is embraced by a spontaneous peasant desire for peace and land cannot serve as a bulwark of law and order. Legislative institutions and oppositional-intellectual parties (liberal democrats) deprived of real authority in the eyes of the people, who themselves will raise a popular wave, cannot control the situation. Anarchy will overwhelm the country. Germany will be in a similar situation.
Thus, Germany and Russia will be destroyed, and all the benefits will be received by geopolitical opponents of Russia and Germany — Britain and France, as well as the United States that joined them later.
Stolypin and Rasputin adhered to a similar position, until the last time they tried to keep the Tsarist regime from war. However, Stolypin was eliminated in 1911. Masonic circles working to the West stood behind the killer. And at the most dangerous moment, when another extremely dangerous political provocation was launched in Europe, Rasputin was "turned off the game." 29 June (12 July) 1914 was attempted on Rasputin in the village of Pokrovsky. For treatment, he was transferred to 17 August in Tyumen, isolated from the king. No one else could save Russia from a catastrophe. To prevent Rasputin from conducting a combination with a separate world with Germany, which saved the autocracy, he was eliminated on the night of December 17. The most active role in the conspiracy took British intelligence. In fact, Russian high-ranking conspirators played the role of a cover. The order to kill Rasputin came from the outside, from the highest level.
1908 year. Tsarskoe Selo. Rasputin with the empress, five children and a governess
To be continued ...
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