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dear friend, i’ll say it again, a terrible cloud over russia is a disaster. there is a lot of dark grief and there is no gap in tears, then the sea, but there is no measure, but what i will say, there are no words to describe the blood. horror, i know everyone wants war from you and it’s true, not knowing what for death is heavy god's punishment, when he is taken away

here the beginning of the end. crazy to triumph and destroy themselves and the people. here germany will be defeated in blood, death without end is great sadness, 1914, the year, the war has not yet begun, all the more so. coups have not happened yet devastation civil war blood all this is still ahead and no one foresees this, except for single people. such were father john of kronstadt, who also

predicted this kind of outcome. revolutionary activities in russia, he died in 1908. the recluse, by tradition, was not particularly listened to yet, of course, the amazing story is that all monarchies are heads of state. but political moments and money were still more important.

let's say, nicholas alexandrovich emperor honestly did everything to prevent the war. he exchanged letters with wilhelm pleaded, simply pleaded not to start a war in response to aggressive actions. uh, germany and austria-hungary he had to declare mobilization. sometimes they say, well, this nicholas did not have to go to war. shouldn't have fought the germans. and what was he supposed to do when , on august 1, 1914, the german ambassador in st. petersburg came to the ministry of foreign affairs to minister sergei sazonov and handed him an ultimatum, which was essentially a declaration of war, that either russia

would suspend the mobilization of its army? or germany declares war on it. war was absolutely inevitable. suspend mobilization. it meant surrender, because in any case, germany will demand either the surrender of russia or, uh, the german ambassador in st. petersburg will enter its territory friedrich von portales and the minister of foreign affairs of the russian empire sergei dmitrievich sazonov and the german left the office of the russian minister oni. did you foresee what terrible

misfortunes this war would turn out to be for the russian and german people and for all the peoples of the world? russia was not quite ready for this war , the rearmament of the army had to end. a few years later, this was well known in the german general staff, but despite this. the situation was, of course, better than , say, in 1905, when russia had to to fight with japan by the beginning of the war in the armed forces of russia, there were 263 aircraft in germany, there were 232 of them in england 258 in france 156 we were second only to france in

the number of cars shells. indeed, it was a big problem for russia 1,000 shells for guns was by the beginning of the first world war in the russian army in france 1,300 in germany 1500 the question of rearmament the question of transferring civilian industry to war footing was extremely acute, did nicholas ii succeed, did it work his government about it? the best way to tell us is that a person who is difficult to suspect of special sympathies for russia winston churchill a person who fought in the first world

war was both a military man and a journalist and politicians and very well knew the situation then created writes few episodes of the great war more striking than the resurrection, rearmament and renewed the gigantic effort of russia in 1916 at the beginning was led by the russian army, the supreme commander-in-chief , a relative of nicholas ii, the closest relative , grand duke nikolai nikolayevich, but defeated followed one after another, many cities were abandoned, entire regions, western, and by 1115 the position of the russian army and russia itself was extremely dangerous at the same time on

the western front, the german offensive against france was so powerful that it became clear to everyone that france would capitulate in the near future the main force diverting forces from france was the eastern russian front, and then the allies in the entente turned to russia with a request. launch a counteroffensive on the eastern front and divert the german divisions from france if france

the german divisions of the western front were hastily transferred to the eastern front and france was saved. the french commander-in-chief said so frankly and with gratitude then that if france was not erased from the map of europe, then she owes this to russia. this is absolutely true. remember the wonderful book by erich maria remarque on the western front without change, well, without change. was often often emphasized, because the main forces of the german army were not concentrated on the western front, often, france held out with the help of russia in

world war i 14 15 16 17 18 years and became the victorious country, but in world war ii, having only great britain as an ally, we remember how long france held out against the germans for 40 days and after 40 days france capitulated the germans marched in a victorious parade through paris in the seventeenth

year the russian army held the state to three armies and fought on two fronts and on the european front and on the russian-turkish front. what did the government of nicholas ii make the successes of the russian government in rearmament during the hostilities the russian army is recognized by everyone, so we heard now how winston churchill assessed these actions of the government of nicholas ii and now let's look at the numbers

, the government of nicholas ii in 1917 doubled the production of guns six times machine guns was built famous and then the best in the world, the kovrov machine gun plant increased its production of light guns by nine times, of heavy guns by four times, and finally, the very lack of shells that so weakened our army at the beginning of the war , the number of shells increased by 16 times. by the way, say. civil war , the russian economy, thanks to the efforts of our handshake liberal, beautiful and long-awaited temporary government about this and later , let's say, the civil war broke out in

the eighteenth year. and what fought in the civil war, most of the factories stood in the eighteenth nineteenth twenty-first year and white and red and anarchists and green. what kind of weapons they fought with the very weapons that were created in the warehouses of the tsarist government. x she had already weathered the storm when everything collapsed all the sacrifices had already been made all the work was completed despair and treason seized power

when the task was already completed the long retreat ended the lack of shells defeated the armament flowed in a wide stream. in march, the tsar was on the throne of the russian empire and the russian army held on to the front, and victory was undeniable. according to the superficial fashion of our time , it is customary to interpret the tsarist system as blindly rotten, capable of torment, but an analysis of the thirty months of the war with germany and austria should correct these lightweight presentations. we can measure by the blows she endured, the victory she endured, by the inexhaustible forces she unleashed to restore the strength

she proved capable of. the king descends from his stage and all his lovers are given to suffering and death, his efforts downplay his actions condemn his memory will entrust. stop and tell me, who else turned out to be suitable in people, talented and brave in people, ambitious and proud spirits , brave and powerful, there was no shortage. but no one was able to answer those few simple questions on which the life and glory of russia depended, holding victory already in their hands. russia fell to the ground, alive, being devoured by worms. later, we will be watching closely.

what kind of deadly rot in power and in society struck russia and what kind of worms devoured it, in the meantime, let's answer one bewilderment that probably arose among a considerable number of viewers. and that's all, because the immortal tirade, and the notorious sakha and about the atomic bomb belongs, of course, not to draft, but to the british marxist isak deutscher, it was a repentant trotskyist, and to make amends for his deviations from the party line. he published in 1953 a pathetic obituary on the death of

joseph vissarionovich. stalin in the times newspaper. in this article, those sokha and the bomb just appeared. we have already said that despite all the difficulties of wartime . russia was that country. the only one of all the warring countries, where there were practically no food cards , the russian economy, of course, fell, like everyone else economy of the world, e. during the first world war, in addition to the economy in the united states of america. but we will talk about this later, but the russian empire withstood the costs of the war, that is, from the fourteenth year, these military spending amounted to one trillion 655 million rubles. at 15 already eight trillion 800 rubles.

and in the sixteenth year, 14.5 trillion rubles and the russian economy withstood all this. in 1915, when the situation at the front became critical, emperor nicholas ii announced that he himself became the supreme commander in chief and took control of the army in your hands. it caused. ambivalence in russia and among the allies, but nikolai alexandrovich was a man who received a military education. nicholas ii was never a general refused the rank of general. he was a colonel, but most of his time from the fifteenth

year. he spent at the front in the general staff. where he took with him not his son , eleven-year-old and very sick alexei , realizing that the boy should get used to such situations. queen and uh, the daughters of emperor willy truly ascetic activities, creating military hospitals , they themselves learned really, learned informally, and really at school, orderlies and nurses assisted in operations, looked after sick soldiers , the empress gave huge personal sums to e, the creation of the lord. this was a unique woman. endless, loving russia and

the russian people, and absolutely incomprehensible to them, we will also talk about this separately. after nikolai alexandrovich became the supreme commander in chief, everyone was horrified. what a nightmare he took on a job he didn't a capable military leader, but the facts say otherwise. russia did not give the enemy not an inch of russian land, the retreat was suspended all plans for the defense of the offensive, strategic projects for waging war, everything happened in the general staff under the leadership of nicholas ii and often, he boldly and very correctly acted contrary to what was offered, let's say, so the professional

military offered general staff. well, for example, the famous lutsk breakthrough brusilovsky is called it. only thanks to nicholas ii, this military operation was carried out and head of the general staff alekseev and many members of the general staff. it was nicholas ii who categorically opposed this offensive in austria-hungary and, in fact, general brusilov, and together they finalized this project in the most responsible way as a result of the offensive in 1916 . and the author of the hungarian army was practically defeated on the head and the lutsk breakthrough and other victories of the russian army, under the command of its supreme commander, led to the fact that

the commander of the german army. ah. general erich von people dorf testified at the beginning of 1917, russia managed to create new powerful formations as a result of such a reorganization , the power of the russian army significantly increased our position. it was extremely difficult and there was almost no way out of it, and there was nothing for our own offensive and to think all the reserves were needed. only for the defense of our defeat seemed inevitable. but this did not happen. a progressive society, that very hidden and beautiful quasi-state,

striving to create a free and beautiful new russia brought the country to that in the end. the bolsheviks, the successors of this provisional government of ours, made an agreement with germany, which was already dying then, and surrendered to it all their victory and gave the russian territory. including ukraine, the baltic states, it was a terrible and unprecedented story. the same absurd

story that we often talk about when remembering the february events.

he formulated the idea that the russians can be defeated only if the ukrainians are set against them. the main task was a swift offensive and access to our western border. to overcome the water surface 3 km wide under the prevailing western world this is a very serious obstacle to these lines. we

had to overcome 2438 people per battle for the grandfather of the heroes of the soviet union in just the entire previous history of heroes was less.

we continue to talk about the main thing for today, russian troops repelled enemy attacks in the donetsk red liman south-donetsk direction , the ministry of defense reported this. in addition, units of the armed forces that landed on the island were destroyed in the kherson direction antonovsky near the bridge of the same name. in the kherson direction, the destruction of the units of the armed forces of ukraine that landed on the island of anto was completed