Early this morning on Israeli Channel 10 news, a leak was published from a diplomatic channel, this information was sent to all Israeli ambassadors around the world regarding the chaotic events that unfolded over the weekend in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia which began with the sudden resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri after he was summoned to Riyadh by his Saudi backers and led the Saudis to announce that Lebanon had “declared war” on Saudi Arabia.

Information from a secret embassy cable, written in Hebrew, is the first official evidence that the Saudis and Israelis are deliberately coordinating the escalation of the situation in the Middle East.

Explosive information from classified Israeli telegram shows the following:

• On Sunday, immediately after the shocking resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri, Israel sent a telegram to all its embassies asking its diplomats to do their best to step up diplomatic pressure against Hezbollah and Iran.
• Called to support Saudi Arabia's war against the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen.
• It was emphasized that everyone should be convinced that Iran was engaged in "regional subversive activities."
• Israeli diplomats were urged to contact the "highest officials in host countries asking them to expel Hezbollah from Lebanon.

Below is a rough translation using Google translate, a secret Israeli embassy cable that was published on Channel 10 News:

to CEO: You are requested to urgently contact the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other relevant government officials of [your host country] and emphasize that Al-Hariri's resignation and his comments on the reasons for his resignation further illustrate the destructive nature of Iran and Hezbollah and their danger to the stability of Lebanon and the countries of the region.

Al-Hariri's resignation proves that the international argument that bringing Hezbollah into government is a recipe for stability is basically wrong. This artificial unity creates paralysis and inability for local sovereign powers to make decisions that serve their national interests. This effectively turns them into hostages under physical threat and forces them to advance the interests of a foreign power - Iran - even if it may endanger the security of their country.

The events in Lebanon and the launch of a ballistic missile by signatories of the Riyadh agreement require high blood pressure on Iran and Hezbollah on a range of issues: from the production of ballistic missiles to regional subversion".

Thus, as the Middle East escalates, it looks like an alliance between the Saudis and Israelis against Iran and the Shiites has placed Lebanon in the crosshairs of yet another looming Israeli-fuelled war. And the war in Yemen will also continue now with more open political support for Israel. According to

In post-Soviet Russia, the Bolsheviks were blamed for fomenting the Civil War. Like, they overthrew the "legitimate" Provisional Government, dispersed constituent Assembly, with their decrees, they destroyed the bourgeois-democratic republic that had begun to take shape. They destroyed democratic Russia, which is following the path of reunification with European civilization. They unleashed the "Red Terror", destroying the best part of the Russian people: the aristocracy, the nobility, the clergy, the Russian intelligentsia, the merchants and the bourgeoisie as a whole.

At the same time, Tsar Nicholas and his family were killed. This made it possible to create the myth that it was the Bolsheviks who destroyed the autocracy, overthrew the tsar and destroyed the Russian Empire. And then, in order to retain power and create their own "bloody" totalitarian empire (in the West it would later be called the "evil empire"), they drowned the country in blood. The attempts of the "noble" whites to save Russia, "one and indivisible", failed due to excessive "chivalry". The Reds acted cruelly and bloody, were not afraid mass murder. They drove crowds of peasants into their army, in the rear they put barrage detachments from the internationalist revolutionaries (Chinese, Hungarians, Latvians, etc.), and filled up the small white troops with "cannon fodder".

Thus, allegedly the Bolsheviks arranged bloody Troubles in Russia, which led to the death of " old Russia", millions of victims and the creation of a" bloody "Red Empire," Soviet concentration camp". This myth is very beneficial for the West, as it allows wide circle tasks. First, to morally suppress the Russian people, to make them eternally “guilty” of all possible and impossible sins. It turns out that the USSR was not the most advanced country on the planet, making a leap forward for hundreds of years in creating a just order in the interests of the people, but a "concentration camp" where they exterminated the "best part" of the Russian people and only "scoops-slaves" remained.

Secondly, to use this myth in information war against Russia, to make excuses, to apologize. To create an image of the Russian "evil empire", "Russian Mordor" in the eyes of the Western layman. That allows you to use any methods in the fight against Russia and justify them in advance. Like, with “Russian subhumans (orcs)” it’s impossible to do otherwise.

Thirdly, you can constantly push, play off Russians with small peoples who still remained part of Russia, or peoples who were separated during the collapse of the Union and the Russian Empire, and were also part of socialist camp. Speculate on the topic of “Russian (Soviet) occupation”, unfair deportation, Russian colonialism, etc. We already agreed that Stalin’s empire was worse than the Nazi Reich and that the Red Army did not liberate Europe, but “occupied”. Also present all sorts of bills to Russia for "occupation" and "colonization". All this is done easily, as in Russia itself Soviet period is considered by a significant part of the “elite” to be lost, flawed.

Fourthly, you can information work on the final "recoding" (programming) of the top Russian Federation. She is gradually being declared the heir to the elite of the Russian Empire, removing the Soviet period. And for the "new nobles" in the West, partners. The USSR is a "mistake of history". Russia is a periphery of Western (European) civilization, and not a separate original Russian civilization. The bourgeois-democratic, capitalist, and in fact, neo-slave-owning, system is normal.

In reality, the Russian unrest of 1917-1920. was driven by two factors. The first is the millennial confrontation between Russia and the West. The masters of the West have been building the world slave-owning order from century to century - this is their the main objective. Complete, absolute submission of a person to the will of the "masters-chosen".

Therefore, the masters of the West, seeing the weakness of the Russian Empire and the Romanov project (which was generally aimed at merging with the “enlightened West”), which was shown during the Crimean War, the war with Japan and the First Revolution, relied on the destruction tsarist Russia. All methods and tools were used: from dragging Russia into a suicidal world war and destructive actions of diplomats and special services until the activation of the numerous "fifth column", which was provided with organizational, material support in organizing the revolution.

The main detonator for the destruction of the Russian Empire was the First World War, unleashed by the masters of France, England and the United States. The war was supposed to destroy the old empires - Russian, Austro-Hungarian, German and Turkish. This made it possible to build a "new world order" based on "democratic values". In reality, all real power belonged to financial capital - the "golden elite" ("financial international", "masters of money", "world behind the scenes", etc.). "Democratically elected" presidents, prime ministers, governments, parliaments, governors, senators and deputies were just a screen for the real masters of the planet.

The war allowed to blow up the weakened internal problems Russia from within. The second factor that ruined the Russian Empire and autocracy is the indigenous internal contradictions. If the body of the Russian Empire were healthy, no external "viruses" could destroy it.

The West has repeatedly tried to crush Russian state, but all his attacks were repulsed - the war with the Swedish Empire, the invasion of the all-European army of Napoleon, the Decembrist uprising, the Eastern (Crimean) war, the attacks of Persia and Turkey provoked by Westerners. However, to late XIX- the beginning of the XX century. it became clear that Russian empire seriously ill. The contradictions and ruptures that had accumulated over the centuries had to be resolved by a “revolution from above,” otherwise confusion was inevitable. Nicholas I and Alexander III"froze" the empire, holding back destructive processes. Under Alexander II, they tried to follow the path of liberalization and western way- the development of capitalist and bourgeois relations, which only "rocked the boat."

Under Nicholas II, Russia approached the “breaking point”. It was necessary to resolve the urgent problems, or they and the lagging behind from the advanced Western powers and cultural (the elite spoke Western languages preferred to live in Western capitals, dressed in Western fashion, etc.), financial, technological dependence on them, made Russia a semi-colony. The government of Nikolai Aleksandrovich pursued a controversial policy - at the same time it tried to “freeze” the situation and reform Russia, indulging the Westernizers. This finally destabilized the situation. At the same time, St. Petersburg allowed the West to push us against Japan, which became a rehearsal for a world war and showed the Westerners the weakness of Russia. The first revolution was suppressed, but it was clear that the new big war can lead to a powerful social explosion and confusion. The most far-sighted people in Russia understood this very well - Stolypin, Durnovo, Rasputin, Alexei Vandam, but they were not heard. And Stolypin and Rasputin, who could have influenced the tsar, were physically eliminated. As a result, Russia was pushed against Germany, which allowed the masters of the West to organize February and crush the autocracy.

The masters of the West would not have been able to destroy the autocracy and the empire of the Romanovs, if Russia had not matured for this. Under the Romanovs, “mines” were laid in Russia, which led to the catastrophe of 1917. There were several main such "mines". Firstly, under Nikon and later (especially under Peter I), Russian Orthodoxy underwent a split and was emasculated, lost its fiery essence. The best part of the Russian people - the Old Believers, with their ethics of conscience and spiritual purity, diligence, rejection of dope - tobacco and alcohol, were excluded from common life, were subjected to severe repression and eventually created their own world. Nikonian Orthodoxy has become official, a form without content. Russia has lost its "connection with heaven", its spiritual nourishment. By 1917, the bulk of the population was indifferent to Christianity, only outwardly being Christians (by the end of the existence of the USSR, the same thing happened with the communist ideology, which led to the catastrophe of 1985-1993). Hence the catastrophe of 1917 and subsequent years, when churches and monasteries were destroyed, the clergy were annihilated, and people for the most part looked at it with indifference. The clergy lost the "holy spirit" (except for individual righteous and elders) and ceased to be one of the pillars of the Russian state.

Thirdly, the Romanovs split the people not only into Nikonians and Old Believers, but also into “European nobles” and the rest of the people (more than 90%). The top of society "lived in Europe" - spoke German, French and English, dressed in European fashion, lived for a long time in Western Europe(often and most life), read European literature, admired European achievements in art, science and technology, built palaces (instead of schools, manufactories and railways). And the means for beautiful life were sucked out of Russia and the people. The common people as a whole preserved Russian culture and language.

From these fundamental errors, the others followed. In particular, foreign policy Petersburg was often in the interests European capitals- Berlin, Vienna, Paris and London, not the Russian people. Russian soldiers were often used as "cannon fodder". For example, a series of wars with France, Napoleon was in the interests of Austria, Prussia and England. And the Russians and the French had no reason to kill each other. The First World War decided the global interests of the masters of the West, the strategic interests of the United States, Great Britain, and France. The Russians and Germans had no reason to kill each other.

Thus, the forces and means, the time of Russia and the Russian people were spent in the name of foreign interests. Although Russia's global interests were in the South and East. Russia had to solve the thousand-year-old task of capturing Constantinople-Tsargrad, the straits. Secure the Caucasus, including the Armenian regions remaining under the Turks, go to Persia and India to south seas. In the East, to preserve and develop Russian America (the sale of Russian America is one of the most serious strategic mistakes Romanovs), taking control of the northern part Pacific Ocean, firmly gain a foothold in Korea and China. Japan could be our partner and ally, helping to contain the Anglo-Saxons in the Pacific. That is, the Romanov empire missed the opportunity to start the process of Russian globalization. With the simultaneous accelerated development of the Russian North, Siberia, Far East and Turkestan.

Not to mention the need to develop Russian education and science, to educate the entire people, to speed up industrialization, to resolve land and labor issues, to eliminate distortions in national policy(particularly Finnish, Polish questions). The Romanovs did not do all this, which caused the collapse of their project. The Bolsheviks solved these problems and contradictions.

To be continued…

Remember everything

Can't say it's mass phenomenon especially compared to the 1990s. And it seems that this is not such an influential direction in the public consciousness of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. But nevertheless, various ideas of historical responsibility for the genocide of the population in the territories of present-day Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are being revived with enviable vitality. And the responsibility must be different kind people's enemies, allegedly deliberately striving for the destruction of the peoples themselves.

Sometimes they point to enemies vaguely peering out of the depths of time. But often they point directly to events that are not so distant. For example, Soviet authorities The 1930s are accused of deliberately creating a famine, and therefore of the genocide of the Kazakh people.

Here, by the way, the question arises: many Kazakh families fled from hunger in the territory of Kyrgyzstan.

It turns out that in Kyrgyzstan, “consciously” the authorities did not satisfy the famine

What then are the conclusions? Either Kazakhstan, unlike its southern neighbors, suddenly became infected with the spirit of extermination of the Kazakhs, or not all the authorities.

The Soviets were "exterminating" in relation to the peoples big country and those were management errors.

First of all in economic issues, in solving the problem of mobilizing the population for big projects, such as the rapid achievement of settled life by nomadic families, which destroyed the traditional economy.

A big project has big consequences. How, for example, to assess the famine in the Volga region in the 20s? From the point of view of the ideologists of the war of memory - of course, as the genocide of the Russian, Tatar, Chuvash, etc. population. If you follow their logic...

Will of the Elite

In the 1990s, such views were professed by the "reforged" workers of the ideological front, wholly former executives party and Komsomol organizations of the district level, or teachers of the departments of some then mandatory for the study of social disciplines.

It is enough to look at the biography of the current national political leaders and even some presidents and prime ministers of the post-Soviet states. Consequently, they solved and are now solving the problem of building sovereign states that have arisen on the territories of the Soviet Union.

But by what means?

It is clear that the basis of any state is a myth

After all public consciousness multi-layered and it has a place and mythology. It is clear that the future of the new ones that emerged in 1991 independent states, this is an act of consciousness of the elite, which has taken responsibility for the project of building a national sovereign statehood. But unlike a number of states, which, as it seems to them, rushed to Europe, in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan they treated various kinds of wars historical memory more balanced.

If some myths were allowed, identifying ancient ethnic formations with modern national substrata, this did not turn into the main trend of politics in the field of the study of history.

Historians by profession can and should create different interpretations historical facts. But there is no doubt that every professional will fight for the accuracy and critical accuracy of the facts established in the community of historians.

Only on this basis can one evaluate different approaches and various interpretations of these facts. But there is even more high level professional work– philosophical and methodological rules and principles of interpretation of facts.

In the unity of all three levels and consists professional activity historians.

Historians and propagandists

It’s another matter - divorced from science and systemic historical knowledge ideologist and propagandist whose trade is to work with mass consciousness and production of mindsets for a certain external project. We emphasize right away that a historian by profession can act as a propagandist, but he is necessarily responsible for the consequences of his statements, when the value is understood as the integrity and security of society.

The pseudo-historian is greedy for sensations, without which he will not be able to declare himself

This is how statements about half of the population of the north of Kyrgyzstan perished during the uprising in 1916 are born without reliance on established facts. Moreover, genocide by the tsarist authorities is conjectured.

But if some project from the outside is also connected to this and where the money appeared, the pseudo-historian is ready to utter any sensational ideas and pronounce with a breath: “It turns out that's how it was!”. And so they unfold historical wars memory. It remains only to turn to the mass of people who are not experienced in historical knowledge, and the construct hostile to social integrity is ready.

Society is splitting apart ethnicity, it reproduces the ideas of hatred for the other part of it and supposedly its historical responsibility for the past.

It can lead to bloody events

And if they are not dealt with by means of the "medicine" of historical knowledge, the social organism may even stagnate.

And it is good that in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, at the level of responsible management structures, there is an understanding of the importance of countering attempts to unleash wars of memory.

Gold and silver - The Rothschild clan craves war - their protege Obama is pushing for it.

The way the elites work is to create chaos, preferably in the form of (beneficial to them) war. Their purpose is to create problems for governments and people. They will then "propose solutions" to end the chaos. AT without fail, the decisions are always in favor of the elite, who receive bonus control of the territory as part of the reward for the rescue.

Why war? It usually covers the general failure of the entire Western banking system and the insolvency of the entire money supply. The only solution will be financial collapse, as well as the destruction of the foundations economic life especially in the ill-prepared United States. An example of what awaits the United States, you can see in the examples of Greece, Cyprus, Ireland, Venezuela, Argentina. The list is growing.
There is only one head of state seeking war against Russia, using Ukraine as a bargaining chip, and that leader is Barack Obama.

What is his interest in fomenting chaos in this part of the world? Simply put, none, and yet he makes significant efforts in this direction.

Are the citizens of the United States calling him to this? No. And what about the Europeans, who have invested billions of dollars in business with Russia and depend on Russia for 20-35% for gas supplies? Are there any European states who call him to it? No. Too much risk, and European leaders don't want to bear the consequences from yet more sanctions that could end up hurting them more than Russia.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Washington this weekend, expressing her support for Obama, but not directly. Ms Merkel may soon say Aufwiederseen to her work in next year. If a german people stupid enough to let the main frau destroy German economy, by losing hundreds of thousands of jobs, risking contracts between leading corporations with Russia, then like obedient Americans, the Germans will have no one to blame but themselves.

If European states oppose new sanctions that will end up hurting them, then Obama has no other support because he supports illegal coup d'état, the overthrow of the legitimate government, and accuses Putin of breaking the rules.
So we have a non-legitimate, non-authoritative group, the IMF, who are on the same side as the hypocritical Obama. The IMF has promised Ukraine a $17 billion loan tranche, with a small caveat camouflaged in the text: Ukraine, you must fight pro-Russian forces and annex the eastern parts of Ukraine, or you won't get your money!

So we have the IMF, [the Rothschilds], a declaration by one country to start a civil war and take over Eastern Ukraine. This is exactly how the elites work, and the owner Nobel Prize of the world - Barack Obama, their figurehead, leading this process, just as he led it in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan. Egypt was a purely political maneuver. Libya has oil, and before the assassination of Muammar Gaddafi, this country owned a gold reserve, which was immediately plundered, just as Ukrainian gold disappeared in the first place in greedy Western thieves.

Remember forever, according to Western interests, gold has no useful value, according to at least in your hands. Syria has importance to transport Russian gas to Europe, and the US viewed it as a threat to the petrodollar. Afghanistan has CIA-backed heroin and a huge source of lucrative money laundering for the Rothschild banking cartel.

But what about Ukraine? She may be exactly what the elite needs, after failed attempt provoke a war in Syria. Why is the attack on Eastern Ukraine and its capture so important? It is rich in agricultural land that generates income, unlike the poor western regions operated in Ukraine. Without income from eastern farmland, how can the IMF loan be repaid?

What does the price of gold and silver have to do with this? Both projects should be suppressed and not considered as an alternative to the world's largest financial pyramid, the Rothschild western banking system, completely corrupt and insolvent to the very core, this applies to the entire western government.

The BRICS countries have created a split in Western world, which continues to expand and remains the most viable threat to the West.

More and more European companies are expected to join Russia and China. Germany remains a key player in this regard. By positioning herself with Obama, Merkel could lose her seat. Good riddance.

It seemed that developments should already have an impact on gold and silver, but last week another manipulation "with securities delayed the inevitable. This is a frank reminder to all ruling elites that they must do whatever is necessary to maintain their power. Perhaps we will see an increased number of "suicides" in the middle tier of bankers, in which there are most of those who defy gravity from buildings of various heights.

[In passing, I note, by the way, for our foreign readers, suicide is the deprivation of life. The use of the term "suicided" means that the official records of 14 suicides to date, which were, let's say, committed with outside help, are therefore "suicided"]

A French banker, a woman named Lydia, is believed to be the first woman to be "suicided" in her attempt to defy gravity and jump to her death. Somehow, Sumana Sultana, 44, a Rupali Bank banker escaped the spotlight when she hanged herself from a bedroom ceiling fan last January. This case increases the number of "suicides" of bankers to 15.

These are the methods of the elites to create problems, like in Ukraine and/or in any other region, where they use distractions and disorientate people into focusing on the wrong issues. The fundamentals for gold and silver are not price-set by the Rothschilds, as we have been saying for the past few months. Until then, with the exception of accumulated physical gold and silver at these ridiculously low, artificial prices, be on the lookout and tread carefully when entering the stock market.

In post-Soviet Russia, the Bolsheviks were blamed for fomenting the Civil War. They say that they overthrew the "legitimate" Provisional Government, dispersed the Constituent Assembly, and by their decrees destroyed the bourgeois-democratic republic that had begun to take shape. They destroyed democratic Russia, which is following the path of reunification with European civilization. They unleashed the "Red Terror", destroying the best part of the Russian people: the aristocracy, the nobility, the clergy, the Russian intelligentsia, the merchants and the bourgeoisie as a whole.

At the same time, Tsar Nicholas and his family were killed. This made it possible to createthe myth that it was the Bolsheviks who destroyed the autocracy, overthrew the tsar and destroyed the Russian Empire.And then, in order to retain power and create their own "bloody" totalitarian empire (in the West it would later be called the "evil empire"), they drowned the country in blood. The attempts of the "noble" whites to save Russia, "one and indivisible", failed due to excessive "chivalry". The Reds acted cruelly and bloodily, they were not afraid of massacres. Crowds of peasants were driven into their army, barrage detachments of internationalist revolutionaries (Chinese, Hungarians, Latvians, etc.) were placed in the rear, and the small white troops were overwhelmed with "cannon fodder".

Thus, allegedly the Bolsheviks staged a bloody Time of Troubles in Russia, which led to the death of "old Russia", millions of victims and the creation of a "bloody" Red Empire, a "Soviet concentration camp". This myth is very beneficial for the West, as it allows solving a wide range of problems. First, to morally suppress the Russian people, to make them eternally “guilty” of all possible and impossible sins. It turns out that the USSR was not the most advanced country on the planet, having made a leap forward for hundreds of years in creating a fair order in the interests of the people, but a "concentration camp" where the "best part" of the Russian people was exterminated and only "scoops-slaves" remained.

Secondly, to use this myth in the information war against Russia, to make excuses, to apologize. To create an image of the Russian "evil empire", "Russian Mordor" in the eyes of the Western layman. That allows you to use any methods in the fight against Russia and justify them in advance. Like, with “Russian subhumans (orcs)” it’s impossible to do otherwise.

Thirdly, you can constantly push, pit Russians against small peoples who still remained part of Russia, or peoples who were separated during the collapse of the Union and the Russian Empire, and were also part of the socialist camp. Speculate on the topic of “Russian (Soviet) occupation”, unfair deportation, Russian colonialism, etc. We already agreed that Stalin’s empire was worse than the Nazi Reich and that the Red Army did not liberate Europe, but “occupied”. Also present all sorts of bills to Russia for "occupation" and "colonization". All this is done easily, because in Russia itself the Soviet period of history is considered by a significant part of the “elite” to be lost, flawed.

Fourthly, it is possible to conduct information work on the final "recoding" (programming) of the top of the Russian Federation. She is gradually being declared the heir to the elite of the Russian Empire, removing the Soviet period. And for the "new nobles" in the West, partners. The USSR is a "mistake of history". Russia is a periphery of Western (European) civilization, and not a separate original Russian civilization. The bourgeois-democratic, capitalist, and in fact, neo-slave-owning, system is normal.

In reality, the Russian unrest of 1917-1920. was driven by two factors. The first is the millennial confrontation between Russia and the West. The masters of the West have been building the world slave-owning order from century to century - this is their main goal. Complete, absolute submission of a person to the will of the "masters-chosen".

Therefore, the masters of the West, seeing the weakness of the Russian Empire and the Romanov project (which was generally aimed at merging with the “enlightened West”), which was shown during the Crimean War, the war with Japan and the First Revolution, relied on the destruction of tsarist Russia. All methods and tools were used: from dragging Russia into a suicidal world war and the destructive actions of diplomats and special services to the activation of the numerous “fifth column”, which was provided with organizational, material support in organizing the revolution.

The main detonator for the destruction of the Russian Empire was the First World War, unleashed by the masters of France, England and the United States. The war was supposed to destroy the old empires - Russian, Austro-Hungarian, German and Turkish. This made it possible to build a "new world order" based on "democratic values". In reality, all real power belonged to financial capital - the "golden elite" ("financial international", "masters of money", "world behind the scenes", etc.). "Democratically elected" presidents, prime ministers, governments, parliaments, governors, senators and deputies were just a screen for the real masters of the planet.

The war made it possible to blow up Russia, weakened by internal problems, from the inside. The second factor that ruined the Russian Empire and autocracy is the fundamental internal contradictions. If the body of the Russian Empire were healthy, no external "viruses" could destroy it.

The West has repeatedly tried to crush the Russian state, but all its attacks were repulsed - the war with the Swedish Empire, the invasion of the all-European army of Napoleon, the Decembrist uprising, the Eastern (Crimean) war, the attacks of Persia and Turkey provoked by the Westerners. However, by the end of XIX - beginning of XX centuries. it became clear that the Russian Empire was seriously ill. The contradictions and ruptures that had accumulated over the centuries had to be resolved by a “revolution from above,” otherwise confusion was inevitable. Nicholas I and Alexander III "froze" the empire, holding back destructive processes. Under Alexander II, they tried to follow the path of liberalization and the Western path - the development of capitalist and bourgeois relations, which only “rocked the boat”.

Under Nicholas II, Russia approached the “breaking point”. It was necessary to resolve urgent problems, or they and the lagging behind from the advanced Western powers and cultural (the elite spoke Western languages, preferred to live in Western capitals, dressed in Western fashion, etc.), financial, technological dependence on them, did Russia as a semi-colony. The government of Nikolai Aleksandrovich pursued a controversial policy - at the same time it tried to “freeze” the situation and reform Russia, indulging the Westernizers. This finally destabilized the situation. At the same time, St. Petersburg allowed the West to push us against Japan, which became a rehearsal for a world war and showed the Westerners the weakness of Russia. They managed to suppress the first revolution, but it was clear that a new big war could lead to a powerful social explosion and confusion. The most far-sighted people in Russia understood this very well - Stolypin, Durnovo, Rasputin, Alexei Vandam, but they were not heard. And Stolypin and Rasputin, who could have influenced the tsar, were physically eliminated. As a result, Russia was pushed against Germany, which allowed the masters of the West to organize February and crush the autocracy.

The masters of the West would not have been able to destroy the autocracy and the empire of the Romanovs, if Russia had not matured for this. Under the Romanovs, “mines” were laid in Russia, which led to the catastrophe of 1917. There were several main such "mines". Firstly, under Nikon and later (especially under Peter I), Russian Orthodoxy underwent a split and was emasculated, lost its fiery essence. The best part of the Russian people - the Old Believers, with their ethics of conscience and spiritual purity, diligence, rejection of intoxicants - tobacco and alcohol, were excluded from common life, were subjected to severe repressions and eventually created their own world. Nikonian Orthodoxy has become official, a form without content. Russia has lost its "connection with heaven", its spiritual nourishment. By 1917, the bulk of the population was indifferent to Christianity, only outwardly being Christians (by the end of the existence of the USSR, the same thing happened with the communist ideology, which led to the catastrophe of 1985-1993). Hence the catastrophe of 1917 and subsequent years, when churches and monasteries were destroyed, the clergy were annihilated, and people for the most part looked at it with indifference. The clergy lost the "holy spirit" (except for individual righteous and elders) and ceased to be one of the pillars of the Russian state.

Thirdly, the Romanovs split the people not only into Nikonians and Old Believers, but also into “European nobles” and the rest of the people (more than 90%). The top of society "lived in Europe" - spoke German, French and English, dressed in European fashion, lived in Western Europe for a long time (often most of her life), read European literature, admired European achievements in art, science and technology, built palaces (instead of schools, manufactories and railways). And the means for a “beautiful life” were sucked out of Russia and the people. The common people as a whole preserved Russian culture and language.

From these fundamental errors, the others followed. In particular, the foreign policy of St. Petersburg was often in the interests of European capitals - Berlin, Vienna, Paris and London, and not the Russian people. Russian soldiers were often used as "cannon fodder". For example, a series of wars with France, Napoleon was in the interests of Austria, Prussia and England. And the Russians and the French had no reason to kill each other. The First World War decided the global interests of the masters of the West, the strategic interests of the United States, Great Britain, and France. The Russians and Germans had no reason to kill each other.

Thus, the forces and means, the time of Russia and the Russian people were spent in the name of foreign interests. Although Russia's global interests were in the South and East. Russia had to solve the thousand-year-old task of capturing Constantinople-Tsargrad, the straits. Secure the Caucasus, including the Armenian regions remaining under the Turks, go to Persia and India to the southern seas. In the East - to preserve and develop Russian America (selling Russian America is one of the most serious strategic mistakes of the Romanovs), taking control of the northern part of the Pacific Ocean, firmly gaining a foothold in Korea and China. Japan could be our partner and ally, helping to contain the Anglo-Saxons in the Pacific. That is, the Romanov empire missed the opportunity to start the process of Russian globalization. With the simultaneous accelerated development of the Russian North, Siberia, the Far East and Turkestan.

Not to mention the need for the development of Russian education and science, the enlightenment of the entire people, forced industrialization, the solution of land and labor issues, the elimination of distortions in national politics (in particular, Finnish and Polish issues). The Romanovs did not do all this, which caused the collapse of their project. The Bolsheviks solved these problems and contradictions.

To be continued…