Who is considered to be external enemies in Russia ??? The classic answer is America, someone will remember international terrorism, from old memory it is, of course, the Germans, headed by Adolf Aloizovich. Well, who else? Poland, France, Swedes near Poltava? Well, this is the case of bygone days. And the most dangerous and still undefeated enemy remains precisely Great Britain, which gracefully, starting from the end of the 17th century, in every possible way weakened Russia, put trips, tried to turn it into a hidden colony, and perhaps it even succeeded.
Although the Russians fought openly with the British once, in the Crimean War, where we technically lost. For centuries, the British arranged dastardly provocations for Russia, solving their problems with someone else's hands, and despite everything, they continued to briskly trade with the Russians. And we, due to our national naivety, were periodically led to divorce the British. The tasks of England, in the middle of the 19th century, were successfully formulated by the secretary for foreign affairs Lord Clarendon:
Doesn't it look like anything? An old song for Russians, which began in the days of the Roman Empire. But how did England, and then the Anglo-Saxons, generally mischievous Russia? Let's briefly go over the main use cases:
Ivan the Terrible began active relations with England, creating the most favorable conditions in Russia for trading companies in England, the abolition of duties, free travel, etc.
* Ivan the Terrible shows his treasures to the English ambassador Gorsey * A. D. Litovchenko 1875
The British elite, in turn, seeing Russia as a geopolitical rival, from the end of the 17th century set the Ottomans against Russia, helped them build a fleet, and issued huge loans to the Turks.
It was from England that Peter I began to bring tobacco to Russia and taught Russians to smoke. British ambassadors tried to prevent the Russians from making peace with Turkey before the Northern War. And then they knocked out Denmark, which was an ally of Russia. During the Northern War, British spies acted in Russia in the interests of Sweden.
During the Napoleonic Wars, England arranged a cunning multi-move: In 1798, Russia, Britain and Neapolitania agreed that the Russians would recapture Malta from the French, and that common power in the occupied archipelago would be established, but under Russian rule. But after the victory of the Russians in Malta, the British blocked our squadron in Messina, preventing them from occupying the archipelago.
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Charles Whitward, British Ambassador.
Because of the betrayal of an ally, Paul I concluded an agreement with Napoleon, where he promised help to the French in the war against Britain and at the same time started a campaign to India, but it did not work out, because Paul was killed by conspirators, led by secret ambassador Lord Whitward (from where he was and so clear). The canceled treaty with Napoleon eventually led to the war of 1812.
In the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-78. Under the treaty, England was neutral, but seeing the successes of the Russians and the deflating Turks, she threatened Russia with war, and even sailed on her kayaks to the Sea of Marmara. As a result, the Treaty of San Stefano was imposed, as a result of which, as a result, we were given the nose, they cut our merits, and England seized Cyprus on the quiet.
* Before the attack at Plevna * V. V. Vereshchagin.
Further more, the United States joins Albion's machinations against Russia. And at the beginning of the 20th century, a new game begins.
The Anglo-Saxons pumped Japan with loans, food, helped build ships, the Americans sold new weapons. All this helped Japan from semi-feudal to become very advanced and slap our troops in 1905. A year before that, active propaganda began, the Western media began to expose Japan as a victim of Russian aggression (familiar song?).
French postcard 1905
The double game of British diplomacy pitted Germany and Russia in the First World War, although both countries had no serious claims to each other. As a result, the greatest losses in the war were suffered by the Germans and the Russians.
Further, it is worth remembering that the British, even during the war, led by Ambassador Buchanan, helped the liberal opposition to overthrow Nicholas II. And later, George V, King of Great Britain refused to immigrate to Nicholas in England, citing LACK OF TIME. And they were relatives, I want to note.
King George V of Great Britain, photo 1891
During the Civil War in Russia, British troops were found, about 40,000 people. The intervention was carried out in Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Vladivostok. The Anglo-Saxons equipped Kolchak's army, allocated 65 million pounds / sterling to support the volunteer army. Churchill himself aptly expressed this:
But all the same, the Reds were able to prevail and England's dreams of subjugating Russia collapsed again. The next project of England now against the USSR was a multi-move with Hitler.
British troops enter Arkhangelsk, March 1918
At first, England did everything to bring down the economy of post-war Germany (inflation of the German mark was 512%), driving the population to complete begging, and then betting on the repulsed Hitler, with the help of intrigues and serious financial injections, brought the Fuhrer to power. Who were his "best friends" - Churchill's son Randolph and Ernst Hanfstaengel, an American intelligence officer, a German citizen, who, by the way, created the Hitlerite German anthem.
Ernst Hanfstaengel and Adolf Hitler.
In his book "My Struggle" Hitler constantly writes that the main friends of Germany are the Anglo-Saxons, and the enemies are the Slavs. Then, thanks to the "economic miracles" of new trade relations with England, life in Germany is getting better and Hitler has the means to arm the country. Britain and the United States are inciting Hitler to the east, throwing Poland away, not fulfilling their allied obligations, and arranging the "Strange War of 1939-1940." When in 1943, thanks to the USSR, there was a turning point in the war, the United States and England open a second front to finish off their "Hitler-Incorporated" and look white and fluffy.
Margaret Thatcher.
In 1945, Churchill, fearing the advance of the USSR to the west, together with the United States prepares Operation Unthinkable for a new blow to the Soviets. But this was only the first "secret operation" to destroy a former ally in the war, since the beginning of the Cold War, the Anglo-Saxons have developed dozens of plans to liquidate the Soviet Union. In the end, the Gorbachev Plan turned out to be the most successful. It is difficult to say what the real influence of the British on the top of the CPSU in the 80s was, but it is known that Gorbachev secretly met with M. Thatcher in 1984. After the collapse of the USSR, Thatcher openly declared:
But how our elites are connected with Great Britain in post-Soviet Russia, Russians are already well aware.