Introduction
Introduction Statistics Contact Development Disclaimer Help
Return Create A Forum - Home
---------------------------------------------------------
True Left
https://trueleft.createaforum.com
---------------------------------------------------------
*****************************************************
Return to: Colonial Era
*****************************************************
#Post#: 12806--------------------------------------------------
Re: Russia, the Last Colonial Empire
By: guest55 Date: April 13, 2022, 10:35 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
Trivia: Many Polish folk songs are in Lydian mode....
#Post#: 12899--------------------------------------------------
Re: Russia, the Last Colonial Empire
By: rp Date: April 19, 2022, 3:05 am
---------------------------------------------------------
Westernized "Asian" YouTuber makes video claiming that Russia
and China have no border disputes, and that China can't claim
Outer Manchuria because it is "ethnically and culturally
Russian/Jewish".:
https://youtu.be/8fJ7FuQByjc
#Post#: 13558--------------------------------------------------
How Russia Became an Empire
By: guest55 Date: May 22, 2022, 11:32 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
How Russia Became an Empire - Great Northern War DOCUMENTARY
[quote]Kings and Generals animated historical animated
documentary series on the Early Modern history continues with a
video on the Great Northern War in which we will talk about the
conflict in which the Swedish king Charles XII attempted to win
against an alliance of Russia, Denmark, Prussia,
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the others. This conflict led
to the rise of the Russian empire under Peter I, the fall of the
Swedish empire and the destabilization of the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth. We will cover all the major battles of this
conflict, including Gedebusch, Gangut, Narva, Poltava, Kliszow,
Fraustadt, Lesnaya and many more.[/quote]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDCFxgHDncc
#Post#: 13645--------------------------------------------------
Why is the Russian army so brutal? | Military historian Antony B
eevor
By: guest55 Date: May 25, 2022, 4:59 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
Why is the Russian army so brutal? | Military historian Antony
Beevor
[quote]There seems no doubt that atrocities and war crimes have
been committed on a massive scale by Russian soldiers in
Ukraine. Why is the Russian army so brutal? We are joined by one
of Britain's foremost historians Anthony Beevor whose new book
is �Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921�[/quote]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvhI_mS1zx8
#Post#: 13916--------------------------------------------------
Re: Russia, the Last Colonial Empire
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 7, 2022, 7:52 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
https://www.eurocanadians.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/985bbeaceb4aed30.jpg
#Post#: 15079--------------------------------------------------
Re: Russia, the Last Colonial Empire
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 10, 2022, 9:12 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
Continuing from:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/war/msg15051/#msg15051
[quote]
https://images.chinahighlights.com/allpicture/2021/11/fa706736f71647e980a59460.…
besides Outer Manchuria being directly stolen by Russia, who was
really behind the breakaway of Mongolia? Answer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_Revolution_of_1921
[quote]Although nominally independent, the Mongolian People's
Republic was a satellite state of the Soviet Union until a third
Mongolian revolution in January 1990.
...
Early in 1919, Grigori Semyonov, a White Guard general, had
assembled a group of Buryats and Inner Mongols in Siberia for
the formation of a pan-Mongolian state. The Khalkhas were
invited to join, but they refused. Semyonov threatened an
invasion to force them to participate. This threat galvanized
the lay princes, who now saw a larger opportunity: the end of
theocratic rule. In August, the Mongolian Foreign Minister
approached Chen Yi with a message from the "representatives of
the four aimags" (i.e., the Khalkhas) with a request for
military assistance against Semyonov. More importantly, perhaps,
it contained a declaration that the Khalkhas were unanimous in
their desire to abolish autonomy and restore the previous Qing
system.
...
Russian expatriates in Urga had elected a revolutionary
"Municipal Duma", headed by Bolshevik sympathisers, which had
learned of the Consular Hill group. In early March 1920, the
Duma was sending one of its members, I. Sorokovikov, to Irkutsk.
It decided that he should also take a report with him about
these Mongolians. Sorokovikov met with representatives of the
two groups. On his return to Urga in June, he met with them
again, promising that the Soviet government would provide
"assistance of all kinds" to the Mongolian "workers". He invited
them to send representatives to Russia for further
discussions.[20]
A new sense of purposefulness now animated both groups. They had
maintained a wary distance from one another, perhaps because of
their different agendas�the Consular Hill group espousing a
rather progressive social program while the East Urga group was
more nationalistic in its goals�and there had been little
cooperation between the two. The Soviet invitation changed that.
The two groups met on 25 June, and formed the "Mongolian
People's Party" (renamed later the Mongolian People's
Revolutionary Party), adopted a "Party Oath", and agreed to send
Danzan and Choibalsan as delegates to Russia.[21]
Danzan and Choibalsan arrived in Verkhneudinsk, the capital of
the pro-Soviet Far Eastern Republic, in the first part of July.
They met with Boris Shumyatsky, then acting head of the
government. Shumyatsky knew little about them, and for three
weeks dodged their demands for a speedy Soviet decision whether
or not to provide military assistance to the Mongolians against
the Chinese. Finally, perhaps at Shumyatsky's suggestion, they
sent a telegram to members of the MPP in Urga with a coded
message that they should obtain a letter, stamped with the seal
of the Bogd Khan, formally requesting Soviet assistance.
...
After several meetings with Soviet authorities in Omsk, the
Mongolian delegation was told that such an important matter
could be decided only in Moscow. Danzan and his compatriots left
for Moscow, arriving in about mid-September. For over a month
they met frequently but inconclusively with Soviet and Comintern
officials.
A White Guard invasion of Mongolia under Baron Roman von
Ungern-Sternberg, however, forced the Soviet government into
action. In late October to early November 1920, around 1,000
troops under his command had laid siege to the Chinese garrison
in Urga numbered about 7,000.
...
The Chinese garrison in Urga, however, successfully repulsed von
Ungern-Sternberg's attack. This altered the Soviet strategy. The
army of the Far Eastern Republic was already exhausted. Only the
Fifth Army of the Reds was left on the eastern front, and
already by late 1920 many of its more experienced units had
either been demobilized, or sent west to fight in Poland, or
assigned to the labor front, where they were needed to repair
the badly damaged Siberian economy.[27] Thus, when the Chinese
repulsed von Ungern-Sternberg, the Soviets on 28 November
withdrew their order for an invasion.[28]
However, von Ungern-Sternberg launched a second attack in early
February 1921. This time he was successful. Chinese soldiers and
civilians fled the city in panic. With the fall of Urga, the
Chinese administrations and military garrisons at Uliastai and
Khovd departed quickly for Xinjiang. The Bogd Khan was restored
as Mongolian monarch by von Ungern-Sternberg. The Bogd Khan and
his government were also restored, and a solemn ceremony held on
22 February.
...
News of von Ungern-Sternberg's seizure of Urga again influenced
Soviet plans. A plenary session of the Comintern in Irkutsk on
February 10 passed a formal resolution to aid the "struggle of
the Mongolian people for liberation and independence with money,
guns and military instructors".[29] With Soviet support, the MPP
was now a serious contender for power. The Party, hitherto
rather amorphous and loosely connected, required better
organisational and ideological definition. A party conference
(subsequently regarded as the first congress of the Mongolian
People's Revolutionary Party) met secretly on 1�3 March at
Kyakhta. The first session was attended by 17 persons, the
second by 26. The Party approved the creation of an army command
staff headed by S�khbaatar with two Russian advisors, elected a
central committee chaired by Danzan with one representative from
the Comintern, and adopted a party manifesto composed by the
progressive Buryat Jamsrangiin Tseveen.[30] On 13 March, a
provisional government of seven men was formed, soon to be
headed by Bodoo. On 18 March, the Mongolian guerrilla army, its
ranks now enlarged to 400 through recruitment and conscription,
seized the Chinese garrison at Kyakhta Maimaicheng (the Chinese
portion of Kyakhta). A new confidence now animated the Party. It
issued a proclamation announcing the formation of the
government, the expulsion of the Chinese, and the promise to
convene a congress of "representatives of the masses" to elect a
permanent government.[31][/quote]
About ultra-Turanist von Ungern-Sternberg:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_von_Ungern-Sternberg
[quote]He also had Hungarian roots and claimed descent from Batu
Khan, Genghis Khan's grandson, which played a role in his dream
of reviving the Mongol Empire.[4]
...
As a boy, Ungern-Sternberg was noted for being such a ferocious
bully that even the other bullies feared him and several parents
forbade their children from playing with him as he was a
"terror".[7] Ungern was well known for his love of torturing
animals, and at the age of 12 he tried to strangle to death his
cousin's pet owl for no particularly good reason other than his
cruelty towards animals.[7]
...
Ungern-Sternberg believed that return to monarchies in Europe
was possible with the aid of "cavalry people" � meaning Russian
Cossacks, Buryats, Tatars, Mongols, Kyrgyz, Kalmyks, etc.[10]
...
In 1905, he left the school to join the fighting in eastern
Russia during the Russo-Japanese War, but it is unclear whether
he participated in operations against the Japanese or if all
military operations had ceased before his arrival in
Manchuria,[13] although he was awarded the Russo-Japanese War
Medal in 1913.[14]
...
There is a widespread view that he was viewed by Mongols as the
incarnation of the "God of War" (the figure of Jamsaran in
Tibetan and Mongol folklore). Although many Mongols may have
believed him to be a deity or at the very least a re-incarnation
of Genghis Khan, Ungern was never officially proclaimed to be
any of those incarnations.[20]
After graduating, he served as an officer in eastern Siberia in
the 1st Argunsky and then in the 1st Amursky Cossack regiments,
where he became enthralled with the lifestyle of nomadic
peoples, such as the Mongols and Buryats.
...
Ungern was an excellent horseman, who earned the respect of the
Mongols and the Buryats because of his skill at riding and
fighting from a horse and for being equally adept at using both
a gun and his sword.[25][/quote]
#Post#: 15214--------------------------------------------------
Re: Russia, the Last Colonial Empire
By: guest78 Date: August 19, 2022, 1:43 am
---------------------------------------------------------
The World's Last Colonial Empire: Collapse or Survival?
[quote]Is Russian society ready to make the full sacrifice for
the country's superpower? Or, is it however exactly the
opposite?[/quote]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5p--KQ0ly0
Another excellent video from the Good Times Bad Times channel.
#Post#: 15778--------------------------------------------------
Re: Russia, the Last Colonial Empire
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 23, 2022, 3:23 am
---------------------------------------------------------
A useful summary:
https://chinapower.csis.org/china-russia-relationship-weaknesses-mistrust/
[quote]In the 19th century, the Russian Empire was party to many
of the �unequal treaties� that compelled China to hand over
territory, money, and other spoils to European powers. The 1858
Treaty of Aigun and 1860 Treaty of Peking were particularly
harsh, forcing China to forfeit approximately 1 million square
kilometers (km) of territory to the Russian Empire.
Treaty of Kulja (1851)
in Xinjiang.
Treaty of Aigun (1858)
kilometers of land to Russia.
Treaty of Tientsin (1858)
treaty ports by sea, as well as expanded extraterritoriality in
treaty ports. Russia also established a legation in Beijing.
Treaty of Peking (1860)
northeastern territory to Russia.
Treaty of St. Petersburg (1881)
silver rubles. Russia expanded its consular network in Western
China and Russian traders were allowed duty-free trade in
Xinjiang and Mongolia.
Li-Lobanov Treaty (1896)
Chinese ports. Russia was permitted to build a railway through
Heilongjiang and Jilin Provinces and station troops to protect
it. China reduced tariff rates on Russian goods.
Convention for the Lease of the Liaotung Peninsula (1898)
was granted the lease to Port Arthur (in modern day Dalian) and
Russian railways were permitted to extend to the port.
Boxer Protocol (1900)
of silver to 8 powers, with the lion�s share (29 percent) going
to Russia.
Sino-Soviet Border Conflicts (1968-1969)
engaged in multiple border skirmishes, including at Zhenbao
Island, where 72 were killed and 68 wounded on the Chinese
side.[/quote]
NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
#Post#: 16086--------------------------------------------------
Re: Russia, the Last Colonial Empire
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 17, 2022, 2:46 am
---------------------------------------------------------
Today let's look at:
https://newlinesinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/20201217-Caucasus-4-AreasTaken…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Persian_War_(1722%E2%80%931723)
[quote]The Russo-Persian War of 1722�1723, known in Russian
historiography as the Persian campaign of Peter the Great,[9]
was a war between the Russian Empire and Safavid Iran, triggered
by the tsar's attempt to expand Russian influence in the Caspian
and Caucasus regions and to prevent its rival, the Ottoman
Empire, from territorial gains in the region at the expense of
declining Safavid Iran.
The Russian victory ratified for Safavid Iran's cession of their
territories in the North Caucasus, South Caucasus and
contemporary northern Iran to Russia, comprising the cities of
Derbent (southern Dagestan) and Baku and their nearby
surrounding lands, as well as the provinces of Gilan, Shirvan,
Mazandaran and Astarabad conform the Treaty of Saint Petersburg
(1723).[8][/quote]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Saint_Petersburg_(1723)
[quote]The Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 23 September [O.S. 12
September] 1723[1][2] concluded the Russo-Persian War of
1722-1723 between Imperial Russia and Safavid Iran. It ratified
Iran's forced ceding of its territories in the North Caucasus,
South Caucasus, and contemporary mainland Northern Iran,
comprising Derbent (Dagestan), Baku, the respective surrounding
lands of Shirvan, as well as the provinces of Gilan, Mazandaran,
and Astarabad.[3] The treaty further specified that the Iranian
king would receive Russian troops for domestic peacekeeping.[4]
As the Cambridge History of Iran states;
"On 23 September 1723, his ambassador in Saint Petersburg,
Ismail Beg, signed a humiliating treaty which stipulated that
the Tsar would accord the shah friendship and help against
rebels and would maintain the shah in tranquil possession of his
throne. In return the shah promised to permanently cede to
Russia: ... the towns of Darband (Derbent), Baku, with all the
territories belonging to them, as well as the provinces: Gilan,
Mazandaran, and Astarabad[/quote]
[quote]Peter was determined to keep the newly conquered Iranian
territories in the Caucasus and northern mainland Iran. However,
he was concerned about their safety and thus ordered the
fortifications at Derbent and Holy Cross to be strengthened.[8]
He was determined to attach Gilan and Mazandaran to Russia.[8]
In May 1724, the Tsar wrote to Matiushkin, Russian commander in
Rasht, that he should invite "Armenians and other Christians, if
there are such, to Gilan and Mazandaran and settle them, while
Muslims should be very quietly, so that they would not know it,
diminished in number as much as possible."[8][/quote]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Persian_War_(1804%E2%80%931813)
[quote]The 1804�1813 Russo-Persian War was one of the many wars
between the Persian Empire and Imperial Russia, and began like
many of their wars as a territorial dispute. The new Persian
king, Fath Ali Shah Qajar, wanted to consolidate the
northernmost reaches of his kingdom�modern-day Georgia�which had
been annexed by Tsar Paul I several years after the
Russo-Persian War of 1796. Like his Persian counterpart, the
Tsar Alexander I was also new to the throne and equally
determined to control the disputed territories.
The war ended in 1813 with the Treaty of Gulistan which ceded
the previously disputed territory of Georgia to Imperial Russia,
and also the Iranian territories of Dagestan, most of what is
nowadays Azerbaijan, and minor parts of Armenia.[/quote]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Gulistan
[quote]The Treaty of Gulistan (Russian:
Гюлистанс&
#1082;ий
договор; Persian:
عهدنامه
گلستان) was a peace treaty
concluded between the Russian Empire and Iran on 24 October 1813
in the village of Gulistan (now in the Goranboy District of
Azerbaijan) as a result of the first full-scale Russo-Persian
War (1804 to 1813). The peace negotiations were precipitated by
the successful storming of Lankaran by General Pyotr
Kotlyarevsky on 1 January 1813. It was the first of the series
of treaties (the last being the Akhal Treaty) signed between
Qajar Iran and Imperial Russia that forced Persia to cede or
recognize Russian influence over the territories that formerly
were part of Iran.[1][2]
The treaty confirmed the ceding and inclusion of what is now
Dagestan, eastern Georgia, most of the Republic of Azerbaijan
and parts of northern Armenia from Iran into the Russian Empire.
...
Terms
"Russia by this instrument was confirmed in possession of all
the khanates -- Karabagh, Ganja, Shekeen, Shirvan, Derbend,
Kouba, and Baku, together with part of Talish and the fortress
of Lenkoran. Persia further abandoned all pretensions to
Daghestan, Georgia, Mingrelia, Imeretia, and Abkhazia."[18]
The lands include:
All the cities, towns, and villages of Georgia, including all
the villages and towns on the coast of the Black Sea, such as:
Megrelia,
Abkhazia,
Imeretia,
Guria;
Almost all cities, towns, and villages of the khanates in the
South Caucasus and partly North Caucasus:
Baku khanate,
Shirvan Khanate,
Derbent Khanate,
Karabakh khanate,
Ganja khanate,
Shaki Khanate,
Quba Khanate,
part of the Talysh Khanate;
Iran loses all rights to navigate the Caspian Sea, and Russia is
granted exclusive rights to station its military fleet in the
Caspian Sea.
...
Even today, Iran officially sees it and the later Treaty of
Turkmenchay as some of its most humiliating treaties ever
signed.[/quote]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Persian_War_(1826%E2%80%931828)
[quote]The war had even more disastrous results for Persia than
the 1804-1813 war, as the ensuing Treaty of Turkmenchay stripped
Persia of its last remaining territories in the Caucasus, which
comprised all of modern Armenia, the southern remainder of
modern Azerbaijan, and modern Igdir in Turkey. Through the
Gulistan and Turkmenchay treaties Persia lost all of its
territories in the Caucasus to Russia. These territories had
once extended throughout most of Transcaucasia and part of the
North Caucasus.
The war marked the end of the era of the Russo-Persian Wars,
with Russia now the unquestioned dominant power in the Caucasus.
Persia (Iran) was forced to cede swaths of territories that it
never regained. The conquered territories spent more than 160
years under Russian domination before establishing their
independence, except Dagestan, which is still a Russian
possession.[/quote]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Turkmenchay
[quote]The Treaty of Turkmenchay (Persian:
عهدنامه
ترکمنچای;
Russian:
Туркманча&
#1081;ский
договор) was an
agreement between Qajar Iran and the Russian Empire, which
concluded the Russo-Persian War (1826�28). It was second of the
series of treaties (the first was the 1813 Treaty of Gulistan
and the last, the 1881 Treaty of Akhal) signed between Qajar
Iran and Imperial Russia that forced Persia to cede or recognize
Russian influence over the territories that formerly were part
of Iran.[1][2]
...
Similarly to the 1813 Treaty of Gulistan, the treaty was imposed
on Persia following a Russian military victory. Paskievich
threatened to occupy Tehran in five days unless the treaty was
signed.[4]
...
Following this treaty, as well as the Treaty of Gulistan, Russia
had finished conquering all the Caucasus territories from Qajar
Iran what is now Dagestan, eastern Georgia, Azerbaijan, and
Armenia, all of which had formed part of its very concept for
centuries.[5] The areas north of the Aras River, such as the
territory of the contemporary nations of Georgia, Azerbaijan,
Armenia and the North Caucasian Republic of Dagestan, were
Iranian until they were occupied by Russia during the 19th
century.[6][7][8][9][10][11]
Following the two treaties, the formerly Iranian territories
came under the Russian, and later the Soviet control for
approximately 180 years, and Dagestan remains a constituent
republic within the Russian Federation to this day. Comprising
most of the territory ceded in Gulistan and Turkmenchay
treaties, three separate nations would gain independence
following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991: Georgia,
Azerbaijan and Armenia.[/quote]
NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
The only good part:
[quote]In the aftermath of the war and the signing of the
treaty, anti-Russian sentiment in Persia was rampant. On 11
February 1829, an angry mob stormed the Russian embassy in
Tehran and killed almost everyone inside. Among those killed in
the massacre was the newly-appointed ambassador to Persia,
Aleksander Griboyedov, a celebrated Russian playwright.
Griboyedov had played an active role in negotiating the terms of
the treaty.[21][/quote]
#Post#: 16699--------------------------------------------------
The Forgotten US Invasion of Russia
By: guest78 Date: November 26, 2022, 7:41 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
The Forgotten US Invasion of Russia
[quote]Decades before the beginning of the Cold War, the
relationship between the US and the Soviet Government had
already become heated. President Reagan had forgot to mention -
or had simply forgotten - that American and Soviet troops had
already engaged in active combat on several occasions, from
August 1918 to April 1920. This is the story of the almost
forgotten American invasion of Soviet Russia.[/quote]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OUv3dXD0T4
*****************************************************
Previous Page
Next Page
You are viewing proxied material from gopher.createaforum.com. The copyright of proxied material belongs to its original authors. Any comments or complaints in relation to proxied material should be directed to the original authors of the content concerned. Please see the disclaimer for more details.