The battle for the Arctic began when no one knew about the oil and gas bearing veins in this part of the world. Since the seventeenth century, numerous attempts have been made to conquer the world's polar summit. The first to the North Pole, the Siberian Arctic and Greenland was in 1608 the sea voyage of the Englishman Henry Hudson.
In August 1895, the sixth geographical congress was held in London, entirely devoted to the study of the North Polar Region of the globe. Hundreds of marine scientific research parties set off for the Arctic Circle.
Three hundred years after the first Arctic expedition, another no less famous Arctic explorer, American Robert Peary, at the beginning of the twentieth century, jokingly called the "Polar Race" a grandiose flurry of discoveries from different countries in the study of the geography of the northernmost edge of the Earth.
In the twentieth century, the difference in priorities for the conquest of the Arctic between the world's largest political players was geographically indicated. The heads of state began to understand that the development of new northern lands is economically beneficial.
According to the decryption of ancient manuscripts, the remains of the grandiose proto-Aryan civilization of the country of Thule, of which the Hyperborean race was a part, are located in the Far North. On the geographical maps of the late Middle Ages, compiled by Gerardus Mercator, the northern peak of the world was indicated in the form of an ancient continent with the name Hyperborea. Paradoxically, the ancient Mercator atlas of the Arctic, corresponding to the image of the polar lands about forty million years ago, and the modern paleobathymetric, paleogeographic maps of the bottom relief of the Arctic region, obtained using highly sensitive deep-sea equipment, practically coincide.
Back in 1918, in Germany, at the stage of the emergence of fascist Nazism in society, an expedition to the Arctic region was planned to raise the spirit of the German people in order to find the legacy of the great Hyperborean people of the "epos".
The development of the Arctic by the Soviet Union began in August 1922 with the polar expedition of Alexander Barchenko to the Kola Peninsula. Together with the Soviet researcher Boke, he searched for the roots of the most ancient race of swags, and investigated the occult knowledge associated with them. With the defeat of the scientific and political group Barchenko-Boke, the Bolshevik leadership abandoned further research in the field of the mystical heritage of the Arctic.
On the contrary, the German leadership became very interested in the scientific movement of the Dunhor about superhumans from Hyperborea, and in search of a lost civilization sent the first official expedition to the Soviet sector of the Far North in the summer of 1931. The world-famous flight of the German airship "Tsipilin" was led by the German aeronaut Colonel Walter Broms, who was a member of the Thule Masonic community.
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Of course, eighty percent of this flight pursued military reconnaissance goals, but the organizers of the air expedition hoped to find some remnants of the ancient Thule civilization to fuel the ideological and domestic political struggle of Germany itself. Films with valuable cartographic information from this scientific campaign fell into the hands of the masters of thule, who then checked them against ancient manuscripts. They were sure that in the vastness of the Kola Peninsula there was a repository of the traces and secrets of the Aryan civilizations.
Expansion to the Far North turned into a manic obsession with the Fuehrer of fascist Germany, Adolf Hitler. The plan "Ost" was developed, the author of which was one of the brothers of the Nazi mythological society Thule Alfred Rosenberg.
By the end of the thirties of the last century, the Soviet Union achieved colossal success in the development of the Polar Territories and the Arctic. The propaganda northern actions of the Bolsheviks thundered all over the world:
• non-stop flights across the North Pole;
• rescue of Chelyuskin people, distressed Arctic expeditions;
• introduction of drifting weather stations of the Far North;
• commissioning of the Northern Sea Route for shipping with a well-functioning infrastructure with the introduction of floating ice cutters.
The rapid progress in the development of the Arctic territories by the Soviet Union would ultimately lead to the discovery of ancient artifacts, and the Hyperborean heritage could end up in the hands of the Bolsheviks, which would give the Soviet Union new secret occult knowledge. Such a development of events could not be allowed in the Nazi department of the "SS" of the most secret German organization Ahnenerbe, which was engaged in occultism at the highest state level, headed by Hitler. All this played a decisive role in the plans of the Hitlerite military command. Therefore, in April 1940, the warships of the German naval forces entered the major ports of Norway, preparing for a decisive dash into the Soviet Arctic.
However, the Germans were unable to complete any of the tasks that the Fuehrer set for the nineteenth and thirty-sixth corps of the Wehrmacht troops specially trained to conduct combat in the Arctic. The German troops of the Mountain Rifle Corps simply got bogged down in the Mustatunturi mountains, and generally could not cross the USSR state border in this region.
Only in the early nineties of the twentieth century, with the declassification of military archives, the true motives of the landing of numerous sabotage fascist groups in the Kola Peninsula region became known.
Much later than the first discoveries of northern lands, it turned out that more than a quarter of all earth's hydrocarbon reserves are concentrated on the Arctic shelf. And now, in the twenty-first century of the third millennium, history repeats itself, with the commissioning of powerful nuclear icebreakers, the battle for the Arctic intensified with renewed vigor, only now not for ideological or mythological, but purely economic reasons.