foreword
Otto von Bismarck unified Germany, which previously consisted of more than thirty small kingdoms, duchies and principalities.
«Never plan anything against Russia, because she will respond to your every ruse with her unpredictable stupidity.»
“Don’t hope that once you take advantage of Russia’s weakness, you will receive dividends forever. The Russians always come for their money. And when they come, don’t rely on the Jesuit treaties you sign that you claim to justify. They’re not worth the paper they’re written on, so it’s worth either playing honestly with the Russians or not playing at all.”
«A war between Germany and Russia is the greatest stupidity. So it’s definitely going to happen…»
Russians always come for their money. Bismarck’s parting words to posterity
«Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the disintegration of Russia’s main strength, which rests on millions of Russians… These latter, even if dismembered by international treaties, recombine with each other as quickly as particles from a severed piece of mercury …»
“The Russians cannot be defeated, we have seen that for hundreds of years.
„Selbst der günstigste Ausgang des Krieges wird niemals zum Zerfall der Hauptstärke Russlands führen, die sich auf Millionen von Russen stützt … Diese letzteren, auch wenn sie durch internationale Verträge zerlegt sind, vereinigen sich genauso schnell wieder mit jedem andere, wie Partikel eines abgeschnittenen Quecksilberstücks …“
„Die Russen können nicht besiegt werden, das haben wir seit Hunderten von Jahren gesehen.
Flag of Russian Alaska
In 1648, during the reign of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov, Semyon Dezhnev crossed the 86-kilometer-wide strait separating Russia and America, later called the Bering Strait.
Mikhail Gvozdev, in 1732, was the first European to determine the coordinates and map 300 kilometers of coastline, describing coasts and straits. In 1741 Vitus Bering explored the Alaskan coast. In 1784 Grigory Shelikhov conquered the peninsula. He spreads orthodoxy among the local horsemen. Accustomed local residents to potatoes and beets. Found an agricultural colony «Glory to Russia». And at the same time includes the residents of Alaska in the number of Russian subjects. Simultaneously with Shelikhov, merchant Pavel Lebedev-Lastochkin explored Alaska. Russian territory expanded south and east.
The British armed the natives against the Russians
In 1798, as a result of the merger of the firms of Grigory Shelikhov, Nikolai Mylnikov and Ivan Golikov, the Russian-American Company was formed, the shareholders of which were statesmen and grand dukes. The first director of this company is Nikolai Rezanov, whose name is known to many today as the name of the hero of the musical «Juno and Avos». The company, which some historians now refer to as «the destroyer of Russian America and an obstacle in the development of the Far East,» had monopoly rights to furs, trade, and the discovery of new lands, granted by Emperor Paul I who had the right to to protect and represent the interests of Russia
In 1798, Shelikhov’s company merged with the company of Ivan Golikov and Nikolai Mylnikov and became known as the Russian-American Company. The company founded the Mikhailovsky Fortress (now Sitka), which housed an elementary school, shipyard, church, arsenal and workshops. Every incoming ship was greeted with salute, as under Peter I. Libraries and schools were created. There was a theater and a museum. Local children were taught Russian and French, mathematics, geography, etc. And four years later, merchant Ivan Kuskov founded Fort Ross in California, the southernmost outpost of the Russian colony in America. He bought the territory that belonged to Spain from the native Indians. Russia has become a European, Asian and American power. Russian America included the Aleutian Islands, Alaska and Northern California. More than 200 Russian citizens lived in the fortress — Creoles, Indians, Aleuts.
The sale of vodka was forbidden on the territory. Strict measures have been put in place to maintain and reproduce numbers of animals. The British invading Alaska destroyed everything clean, soldered the natives, and bought furs for next to nothing. In 1803 Rumyantsev, later Chancellor, demanded the colonization of Russian America. He urged building cities in it, developing industry and commerce, building plants and factories that could work with local raw materials. Chamberlain Rezanov said it was necessary to «invite more Russians there».
At that time, the United States was actually a small country that had fairly friendly relations with Russia. Thanks to the non-interference of Russia, the colony separated from England. The great power hoped for the gratitude of the new state. But in 1819, US Secretary of State Quincy Adams declared that all states in the world must reconcile the idea that the continent of North America is solely the territory of the United States. He also developed the doctrine: «Time and patience will be the best weapon to win back part of the American continent from the Russians.» In 1821, the United States of North America, as the country was then called, recognized at the Congress level the threat to the country’s interests from Russian colonization of America’s Northwest coast — Alaska and California.
Sitka today.
The company founded the Mikhailovsky Fortress (now Sitka), where the Russians built a church, an elementary school, a shipyard, workshops and an arsenal. Every ship that came into the harbor where the fortress stood was greeted with fireworks. In 1802 the fortress was burned down by the natives, and three years later another Russian fortress suffered the same fate. English entrepreneurs tried to eliminate the Russian settlements and armed the natives to do so.
Alaska could become a reason for war for Russia
Russian America in 1860.
For Russia, Alaska was a real gold mine. For example, sea otter fur was more expensive than gold, but the greed and short-sightedness of the miners meant that by the 1840s, there were virtually no valuable animals left on the peninsula. Oil and gold were also discovered in Alaska. This fact, absurd as it may sound, has become one of the incentives to get rid of Alaska as soon as possible. The fact is that American prospectors began to actively arrive in Alaska, and the Russian government reasonably feared that American troops would come after them. Russia was not ready for war, and it was utterly unwise to leave Alaska destitute.
At the Alaska Transfer and Lease ceremony, the flag fell on Russian bayonets
Painting by N. Leitze «Signing of the Alaska Lease» (1867)
The Main Secret When Renting Alaska — Where’s the Money?
Russia never received the money for the rent.
There is also the opinion of historians who believe that Alaska was not sold but leased to the United States for a period of 90 years. And the Alaska lease expired in 1957. We will consider this version below.
Alaska’s lease expired in 1957. The US would, with pain in its heart, give the land back or try to extend the lease for a very good amount. But Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev actually gave America the land. And only after that, in 1959, Alaska became the 49th US state. Many argue that the USSR never signed the treaty on the transfer of Alaska to US ownership — nor did the Russian Empire. Therefore, Alaska may have been borrowed from Russia for free. We know that history does not like subjunctive aberrations and the past cannot be returned. But the mere fact that the Russian country of Alaska turned out to be part of US territory raises serious doubts.
‘Line of Treason’: Shevardnadze stole part of the Bering Sea from Russia
In 1990, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, with the active support of Mikhail Gorbachev, surrendered about 80,000 square kilometers (at least 34,000 sq mi) of Soviet (now Russian) territory to the Americans
US President George W. Bush, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and US Secretary of State James Baker.
The robbery of our homeland was brazenly carried out by the Secretary General of the CPSU Central Committee and his accomplice the minister, referring to the maps as early as 1867 as a document, according to which it was necessary to distinguish between the water areas belonging to Moscow and Washington.
What did you lose?
As a result of the actions of the perestroika leaders, Russia lost the zone of the richest production of crabs and Pacific fish. According to Kamchatka Territory Senator Boris Nevzorov, the damage can be estimated at around 500,000 tons of catch annually.
Also Russia voluntarily — and for unknown reasons! — deprived itself of the right to extract mineral resources, the reserves of which, according to geological surveys in this zone (between the islands of Pribylov, St. Matthew, Medny and Attu), are at least 200 million cubic meters of natural gas and at least 200 million tons of oil.
This field is in a zone that, according to the UN General Convention, has nothing to do with the delimitation of exclusive economic zones and should at least have been divided between Russia and the USA. But Eduard Shevardnadze, who died as a citizen of another country, decided this issue for the Russians (this part of the territory of the USSR belongs to the part that belonged to the RSFSR).
Alaska claims islands from Russia
Where it was thin, it no longer tears
repetition
And a very unpleasant consequence is the challenge of the Russian border by the state of Alaska. Anchorage (rather than Washington, which is also odd) lays claim to the Wrangel, Herald, Bennett, Henrietta, Medny, Sea Steller, and Kalan Islands. All should be returned to the United States from the American point of view (Alaska State Resolution HJR-297 of 1999). There is also a corresponding response from the Russian Foreign Ministry that it is not within Moscow’s competence to resolve disputes between the US federal center and the states that are contesting the center’s decision. Despite this, Alaska continues to consider the territory of these islands disputed, which is related to the same document signed by Eduard Shevardnadze.
By the way, instead of the state of Alaska, it would be worth behaving more modestly — if only because the final transfer of this territory to the United States itself took place under very mysterious circumstances and with complete disregard for international law from the 19th century.
The 1867 treaty clearly states: «…to cede to the United States…», i.e. the verb «to sell» does not appear there. In other words, it was all about transferring physical control of the territory for a limited period of time, nothing more. No wonder I.V. Stalin at the Yalta talks casually said that the USSR will not claim Alaska, since it will gain control of Eastern Europe. Consequently, there were still grounds for complaint and the gold for the deal was not transferred to Russia in this way.
Finally, one more thing — and very unpleasant! — A consequence of the treacherous decision of the Soviet head of the international department is the need to declare the escort of ships passing the North Sea route to the United States now.
The fact is that when ships pass through the Bering Strait, they automatically find themselves in the sea zone, which the Gorbachev-Shevardnadze company is sovereignly and completely illegally transferring to the American side. There is a clear Gothic paradox: Russia is being forced to ask America for permission to pilot ships through its own waters, granted to it under a filkin charter by a temp worker nearly 30 years ago.
Can Russia appeal this decision?
In fact, the actions of Gorbachev and his accomplice Shevardnadze fall under the article on treason against senior officials.
According to Soviet law, the question of the state border can be examined — and even more so approved! — only at the Congress of People’s Deputies of the USSR. According to the statement of the Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers in 1990, N.I. Ryzhkov, neither in the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee nor at any meeting of the USSR Council of Ministers was the issue raised or considered.
The actions of Gorbachev and his accomplice Shevardnadze fall under the article on treason against senior officials.
Moreover, the text of the agreement has not yet been ratified (this is required by Article 15 of the Federal Law «On International Treaties of the Russian Federation») and, by agreement of the parties, has an exclusively temporary — albeit very protracted — period of validity. This legally justified opinion is shared by a number of senior Russian statesmen, including Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
It turns out that 30 years ago there was a conspiracy of two party leaders who decided to deprive our country of tens of thousands of square miles of territory, the sovereign right to navigation along a strategic route, and also the richest fishing industry as promising oil and gas deposits.
There is no statute of limitations on acts of this kind, and Mikhail Sergeyevich should have been taken into custody long ago and at least charged with this undeniable state crime.
At present, the issue of returning the illegally expropriated water area was raised by Senator Nevzorov, and Valentina Matviyenko decided to start the case. Russia is preparing documents to bring the state border into line with UN regulations on the delimitation of territorial waters. It is known that the Russian side has already declared the need to delimit the areas along the so-called loxodrome, and the Americans are demanding to adhere to the orthodrome.
The first option repeats the curve of the coast and, accordingly, symmetrically delimits the exclusive zones of two neighboring states.
Will the Americans give up the water sector?
The question of the Bering Strait arose with all urgency because of the route of the North Sea Route. As you know, America stubbornly refuses to consider this route as the exclusive property of Russia. Perhaps Russia was preparing in advance to restore the correct line of the state border.
In this case, it becomes clear that the presence of a combat icebreaker in the convoy of ships can be a weighty argument if the Americans decide to prevent free shipping and insist on belonging to Russian waters, relying on an illegal one signed by the attacker Document refer Shevardnadze.
Today, the combat icebreaker «Ivan Papanin» (displacement of 9,000 tons), commissioned last year, is a unique ship that has no equal in the world. And three years ago, Project 21180 warship Ilya Muromets also stepped in to protect our homeland’s arctic borders.
Soon his improved brother (project 21180m) — «Evpatiy Kolovrat» will also leave the stocks. Most likely, there will be other universal surface watercraft capable of performing the tasks set by the Russian Navy command at these high latitudes.
Apart from the 40-year-old civilian icebreaker USCGC Polar Star, the Americans have nothing to brag about yet. As you know, the US attempt to conduct maneuvers in the North Atlantic in 2018 (Trident Juncture) failed disgracefully, showing the utter incompetence of the American fleet in the Arctic. So Russia patiently waited for the right moment to restore justice.
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