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Kolchak is a traitor and treason, a double agent, according to the adviser to President Wilson. Why is Admiral Kolchak a traitor and only a traitor! Kolchak is a hero or a traitor

Kolchak's regime was an ugly combination of external Russian state paraphernalia with SR ministers, semi-English uniforms and French advisers. Among these advisers was the brother of Yakov Sverdlov. Particularly blasphemous sounds the title of Kolchak - "Supreme ruler". It is known that such a title belonged to only one person in Russia - the Sovereign Emperor. Who and by what right gave this title to Vice Admiral Kolchak?

The film "Admiral" with K. Khabensky in the title role has just been released on the screens of our cinemas. Despite many "bloopers" and historical inaccuracies, the film looks compared to today's film-making. Of course, traces of Hollywood and a clear imitation of the famous "Titanic" can be traced in the film quite vividly, but on the whole it lacks that sea of ​​vulgarity and absurdity that is inherent in our today's historical cinema. If the story in the film was about an unknown brave sailor officer from some unknown "Bohemia", then, perhaps, such a film could only be welcomed. But the film is not about an "unknown sailor", but about a very famous person in the history of the Russian turmoil, Admiral Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak. I repeat, Kolchak is known primarily not as a hero of the First World War, but as one of the leaders of the white movement, the so-called "supreme ruler of Russia." So, the film, willingly or unwillingly, creates for us a heroic image of a white general and, thus, creates a myth about the heroic white movement as a whole. But to what extent is such an interpretation fair in the historical aspect, and is the heroic myth about Admiral Kolchak so harmless?

Alexander Vasilievich Kolchak was born on November 4, 1873. He came from a Turkish family, and his grandfather Ilias Kolchak Pasha was the commandant of the Turkish fortress Khotin, in the 1790s he was captured by the Russians and went into their service. Already Kolchak's father distinguished himself heroically in the defense of Sevastopol during the Crimean War.

The future admiral received his primary education at home, and then studied at the 6th St. Petersburg classical gymnasium.

On September 15, 1894, Kolchak was promoted to the rank of midshipman and on August 6, 1894, he was assigned to the 1st rank cruiser "Rurik" as an assistant chief of watch.

Kolchak has earned the highest characteristics about himself. The commander of the cruiser GF Tsyvinsky later, becoming an admiral, wrote: “Warrant officer A. V. Kolchak was an unusually capable and talented officer, had a rare memory, perfectly knew three European languages, knew well the sailing directions of all seas, knew the history of almost all European fleets and naval battles ”.

On the cruiser "Rurik" Kolchak departed for the Far East. At the end of 1896, Kolchak was assigned to the 2nd rank cruiser "Cruiser" as the chief of watch. On this ship, for several years, he went on campaigns in the Pacific Ocean, in 1899 he returned to Kronstadt. On December 6, 1898, he was promoted to lieutenant. In the campaigns, Kolchak not only fulfilled his official duties, but was also actively engaged in self-education. He became interested in oceanography and hydrology. In 1899 he published an article "Observations of surface temperatures and specific gravity of sea water, made on the cruisers" Rurik "and" Cruiser "from May 1897 to March 1898".

At the beginning of the 20th century, Kolchak took part in the polar expedition of Baron E.V. Toll to the Taimyr Peninsula. Throughout the entire expedition, Kolchak was actively involved in scientific work. In 1901, E. V. Toll immortalized the name of A. V. Kolchak - named after him the island and cape discovered by the expedition.

Upon arrival in St. Petersburg, Kolchak reported to the Academy of Sciences on the work done, and also reported on the enterprise of Baron Toll, from whom no news had been received either by that time or later. In January 1903, it was decided to organize an expedition, the purpose of which was to clarify the fate of Toll's expedition. The expedition took place from May 5 to December 7, 1903. It consisted of 17 people on 12 sledges, harnessed by 160 dogs. During Kolchak's expedition, it became clear that Toll's expedition had died.

Then there was the Russo-Japanese War. Kolchak was wounded and captured by the Japanese. After four months in captivity, Kolchak returned to Russia through the United States of America. Upon his return from captivity, he was awarded the St. George's weapon "for bravery" and promoted to captain of the 2nd rank.

Then there was work in the Naval General Staff, then service in the headquarters of the Baltic Fleet. While working at the Naval Headquarters, Kolchak met with Admiral L. A. Brusilov. At the same time, Kolchak takes part in the work of the Duma Committee on State Defense, which was chaired by the leader of the Octobrist Party and one of the Tsar's worst enemies, AI Guchkov. It must be said that Admiral L. A. Brusilov was very critical of Emperor Nicholas II.

It was in the Baltic, in the rank of captain of the 1st rank, that Kolchak met the First World War. We will not dwell here on Kolchak's activities as a naval commander. Suffice it to say that his activities were highly valued by the Russian naval command and the Emperor himself. It was Nicholas II who promoted Kolchak to the rank of vice admiral and appointed him commander of the Black Sea Fleet. At the same time, those around him noted such negative qualities as excessive ambition and irritability in Kolchak. Sometimes Kolchak had nervous breakdowns, during which he retired and closed in on himself. One of such disruptions was reflected in the memoirs of Rear Admiral A.D.Bubnov, who then held the post of Chief of the Naval Directorate at the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command. Bubnov recalled how the news of the fire on the battleship Empress Maria, which occurred in 1916 and cost the lives of many people, had an effect on Kolchak.

“The death of“ Empress Maria ”, - wrote Admiral Bubnov, - deeply shocked A. V. Kolchak. With his characteristic lofty understanding of his superior duty, he considered himself responsible for everything that happened in the fleet under his command [...]. He closed in on himself, stopped eating, did not speak to anyone, so those around him began to fear for his sanity. Upon learning of this, the Emperor ordered me to immediately go to Sevastopol and hand over to A.V. Kolchak, that he does not see any fault for him in the death of "Empress Maria", treats him with unfailing favor and orders him to calmly continue his command. Arriving in Sevastopol, I found at the headquarters a depressed mood and anxiety for the admiral's condition, which now began to express itself in extreme irritation and anger. Although I was close to A. V. Kolchak, I confess I did not go without fear to his admiral's quarters; however, the gracious words of the Sovereign that I conveyed to him had an effect, and after a long friendly conversation he completely recovered, so that in the future everything went into its own rut. "

But it was not ambition and irritability that became the reason that the gendarmerie took Kolchak into a secret development. General Spiridovich writes in his memoirs about important meetings in St. Petersburg, in October 1916, under the chairmanship of M. M. Fedorov, in private apartments, including those of Maxim Gorky. These meetings took place at least twice a month. In 1916, at meetings in Gorky's apartment, a "sea plan" of the palace coup appeared, to which A. V. Kolchak and Kapnist allegedly agreed (initials unknown).

It is not known whether Spiridovich is right in his memoirs or not, but here are the memoirs of the assassin of G.E. Rasputin, Prince Felix Yusupov. Yusupov recalled that immediately after the February coup, he met with one of the main rebels, MV Rodzianko. Further Yusupov writes:

“Seeing me, Rodzianko got up, walked over and asked on the move:

- Moscow wants to declare you emperor. What do you say?

This is not the first time I have heard this. We had been in Petersburg for two months already, and all sorts of people - politicians, officers, priests - told me the same thing. Soon Admiral Kolchak and Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich came to repeat:

- The Russian throne was not sought by inheritance or election. He was captured. Take this opportunity. All the cards are in your hands. Russia cannot be without a tsar. But confidence in the Romanov dynasty has been undermined. The people no longer want them. "

So, according to Yusupov, Kolchak was among those who tried to replace Emperor Nicholas II on the throne by another person, in particular Felix Yusupov. This passage of Yusupov coincides with the information of Spiridovich. It is possible, again, not to believe Yusupov, especially since the prince was a liar.

But here's some more information. In 1916, shortly before the February coup, the Tiflis mayor A.I. At the same time, Khatisov assured the Grand Duke that Admiral Kolchak was completely on their side and was ready to provide the forces of his fleet for these purposes. At the same time, another Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich came to meet with the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich in Tiflis and also persuaded his relative to support the conspiracy against the Tsar, referring again to the loyalty of the Black Sea fleet. In this regard, it is interesting that in Yusupov's memoirs, Kolchak and Nikolai Mikhailovich also act in one bundle.

Immediately after February, it became known about the plan according to which the Black Sea Fleet was to move to Batum and there, and along the entire coast, to demonstrate in favor of Nikolai Nikolaevich, and deliver him through Odessa to the Romanian front and declare him Emperor, and the Duke of Leuchtenberg - heir

Thus, there are so many references to Kolchak's involvement in the conspiracy against Emperor Nicholas II that it is difficult to consider them just coincidences.

Whatever it was, but Kolchak immediately and completely recognized both the February coup and the regime of the Provisional Government. On March 5, Kolchak ordered to arrange a prayer service and a parade on the occasion of the victory of the revolution, at a rally in Sevastopol "he expressed loyalty to the Provisional Government."

The admiral spoke about the same devotion during the interrogation by the Chekists in 1920. To the questioner: “What kind of government seemed to you personally most desirable for you?” Kolchak answered frankly: “I was the first to recognize the Provisional Government, I believed that as a temporary form it was desirable under the given conditions; he must be supported with all his might; that any opposition to him would cause collapse in the country, and I thought that the people themselves should establish a form of government in the constituent body, and whatever form they choose, I would obey. I thought that there would probably be some kind of republican form of government, and this republican form of government I considered responding to the needs of the country. "

And here is another saying of Kolchak, characterizing his "monarchism":

“I took the oath to our first Provisional Government. I took the oath in good faith, considering this Government as the only Government that needed to be recognized under those circumstances, and I was the first to take this oath. I considered myself completely free from any obligations in relation to the monarchy, and after the accomplished revolution I took the point of view on which I have always stood - that in the end I did not serve one form or another of government, but serve my motherland, which I put it above all, and I consider it necessary to recognize the government that declared itself at that time at the head of the Russian government. "

It is said very clearly, and completely rejects all subsequent aspirations of Kolchak's admirers "about the compulsion" of his service to the Provisional Government, about Kolchak's "secret monarchism". There was no monarchism, but there was a great ambition and desire for personal power. Throughout the spring of 1917, Kolchak directly and by telegraph communicated closely with Guchkov and Rodzianko. Guchkov repeatedly thanks Kolchak for his professionalism and dedication to the new government. At the same time, it is clear that certain forces saw a new dictator in Kolchak. When Kolchak arrived in Petrograd in June 1917, the so-called "right-wing" newspapers came out with huge headlines: "Admiral Kolchak is the savior of Russia", "All power to Admiral Kolchak!"

It is interesting that Admiral Kolchak arrived in Petrograd in the new naval form of the Provisional Government. In the film "Admiral" this form is coquettishly presented in the form of either an American naval uniform, or a form of a merchant marine. In fact, the new naval uniform of the Provisional Government, introduced by order of the new Minister of War Guchkov, was deprived of shoulder straps, and the cockade was crowned with a five-pointed star. It is clearly visible in the photograph of Kolchak in the summer of 1917. It is understandable why the filmmakers betrayed the historical truth! How they would show a "fighter against Bolshevism" with a five-pointed star on his forehead!

Arriving in Petrograd, the Russian "monarchist" Kolchak hastens to meet with the worst enemies of the Russian monarchy and assure them of his full respect. Kolchak paid his first visit to the oldest Marxist G.V. Plekhanov. This is how Plekhanov himself recalled his meeting with Kolchak. “Today ... Kolchak visited me. I really liked him. It can be seen that he's done well in his field. Brave, energetic, not stupid. In the very first days of the revolution, he took her side and managed to maintain order in the Black Sea Fleet and get along with the sailors. But in politics he is apparently completely innocent. He brought me straight to embarrassment with his cheeky carelessness. He entered cheerfully, in a military fashion, and suddenly said: - I considered it my duty to introduce myself to you, as the oldest representative of the Socialist Revolutionary Party.

Get into my position! I’m a socialist-revolutionary! I tried to make an amendment: - Thank you, very glad. But let me tell you ...

However, Kolchak, without stopping, rapped out: ... to the representative of the Socialist Revolutionaries. I am a sailor, I am not interested in party programs. I know that in our navy, among the sailors, there are two parties: the Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Social-Democrats. I saw their proclamations. What is the difference - I don't understand, but I prefer socialist-revolutionaries, since they are patriots. The Social Democrats, on the other hand, do not like the fatherland, and, besides, there are a lot of Jews among them ...

I fell into complete bewilderment after such a greeting, and with the most amiable meekness tried to lead my interlocutor out of the delusion. I told him that I was not only not a socialist-revolutionary, but even known as an opponent of this party, who broke many copies in the ideological struggle with it ... - not a Jew, but a Russian nobleman, and I love my fatherland very much! Kolchak was not at all embarrassed. He looked at me with curiosity, muttered something like: well, it doesn't matter, - and began to talk vividly, interestingly and intelligently about the Black Sea Fleet, its condition and combat missions. He told me very well. Probably a smart admiral. Only very weak in politics ... ".

This passage shows all of Kolchak's cynicism. He calls the Socialist-Revolutionaries, bloody murderers and terrorists, "patriots of Russia", with only one purpose: to please the "Socialist-Revolutionary", as he suggests, Plekhanov. Hearing from Plekhanov that he has nothing to do with the Socialist-Revolutionaries, but on the contrary is a "social democrat", Kolchak casually casts aside "this is not important" and continues the conversation. Plekhanov decided that this was a sign of a weak politician, but in fact it was Kolchak's complete moral promiscuity. In this he is very reminiscent of another tsarist officer - Tukhachevsky. We can safely put forward the assumption that if the situation had developed differently, then Kolchak would not hesitate to join the Red Army.

In addition to Plekhanov, the "monarchist" Kolchak met another "patriot" of Russia, the Socialist-Revolutionary Boris Savinkov, the organizer of the assassination of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich and the organizer of the assassination attempt on Emperor Nicholas II. A close relationship was established between the "monarchist" and the "patriot". Suffice it to say that Savinkov represented the Kolchak government and his Union bureau abroad.

Kolchak's connection with Savinkov, a freemason and secret agent of British intelligence, gave reason to some authors to believe that Kolchak himself was recruited by the British. However, it seems that these statements do not take into account the frantic ambition of people like Kolchak. The assertion that Kolchak was an English spy is as absurd as the assertion that Lenin was a German spy is absurd. Another thing is that such people were ready, for the sake of their ambition, to enter into a tactical alliance with anyone to achieve their personal goals.

Kolchak's relationship with Kerensky was also not as harsh as it is depicted in the film. Kolchak, of course, did not say any proud words about Kerensky's responsibility for the collapse of the army and navy. Moreover, he turned to him for help. Another thing is that by the summer of 1917, almost the same anarchy was going on in the Black Sea Fleet as in the Baltic. The sailors' speeches and riots followed one after another. June 6, 1917 Kolchak was removed from the post of commander of the Black Sea Fleet. Then the admiral, apparently, did not expect that he would never return to naval service.

They are constantly trying to explain to us that the removal of Kolchak from the post of commander of the fleet was caused exclusively by Kerensky's fear of the popular personality of the admiral. But in fact, this is not entirely true. Even before Kolchak's resignation, American Vice Admiral J.G. Glennon and the personal representative of the American President, Senator E. Ruth, arrived in Sevastopol. Apparently already then, in Sevastopol, they turned to Kolchak with a proposal to go to the United States to assist the Americans who entered the war in organizing mine work. What real goals this proposal had and when Kolchak agreed to them is not clear, but already in July 1917 in a letter to his mistress A. V. Timereva, Kolchak writes the following: “Now I can speak more or less definitely about my future future. Upon arrival in Petrograd, I received an invitation from US Ambassador Ruth and from the naval mission of Admiral Glennon to serve in the American Navy. For all the gravity of my situation, I still did not dare to immediately irrevocably break with the Motherland, and then Ruth and Glennon quite ultimately proposed to the Provisional Government to send me as the head of the military mission to America to serve in the US Navy during the war. Now this issue has been resolved by the government in a positive sense, and I am waiting for the final formation of the mission. "

On July 27, 1917, Kolchak leaves for the United States, but on the way stops in England, where he spends almost a month. Officially, the Russian admiral studied British military achievements. Nevertheless, Kolchak was not going to leave an active political life. Just before his departure, he received a telegram from Petrograd with a proposal to nominate his candidacy for the Constituent Assembly from the Cadet Party. He agreed.

In early August, Kolchak arrives in the United States, where he is met at the highest level. He met with the US Secretary of the Navy, his assistant, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of War. On October 16, Kolchak was received by President V. Wilson.

Just two months later, Kolchak leaves the United States and goes to the island of Yokohama (Japan). The purpose of this trip is again unclear. One gets the impression that Kolchak is deliberately delivered to the future theater of operations. Here in Yokohama, Kolchak learns about the October Revolution.

Upon learning of the coup, Kolchak began to ask to serve in the British army "at least as a simple soldier." He turned with such a request to the English envoy to Tokyo, Sir Green. After a while, he received a positive response and direction to Bombay, from where he was to be transported to the British possessions in Mesopotamia. But halfway through, Kolchak received a telegram stating that he should not go to Mesopotamia, since the British crown did not need his services. Therefore, Kolchak moved to Beijing to the Russian embassy. From here will begin his path to seizing power in the East of Russia.

The circumstances under which Kolchak's star ascended as the "supreme ruler" of Russia is full of ambiguities. It should be said that after the overthrow of the monarchy, France and England considered the territory of Russia as their prey. In the spring of 1918, the high command of the Allies in the Entente decided to overthrow the "pro-German" Bolshevik regime and establish their complete control over Russia. All anti-Bolshevik forces were subordinate to the French General M. Janin. The plans of the French included the occupation of the Far East and Siberia, as well as the Crimea in the South, the British planned to seize Murmansk and Arkhangelsk, the Romanians - Bessarabia. Meanwhile, this situation did not suit the Americans, who were left with nothing. The United States urgently needed its own man in Russia. And such a person was Admiral Kolchak. On November 18, 1918, Kolchak overthrew the pro-Anatnt directory and proclaimed himself the "Supreme Ruler of Russia." It is noteworthy that the first of the foreign representatives who visited the admiral was the US Consul General in Irkutsk Harris. He officially announced to Kolchak that the US government would give him full support. In 1918-1919, the Americans gave Kolchak 600 thousand rifles, more than 4.5 million cartridges, 220 thousand shells, a large number of guns and machine guns, 330 thousand pairs of army shoes. In February 1919, the American government sent a special military mission to southern Russia. It was headed by the former US military attaché in Petrograd, Lieutenant Colonel Riggs. The mission's task was to organize all kinds of assistance to the Kolchak armies.

Relying on American support, Kolchak was able to remove General Zhanen from the post of the de facto commander-in-chief, for which the latter did not fail to take revenge on the admiral later by handing him over to death. Kolchak's regime was an ugly combination of external Russian state paraphernalia with SR ministers, semi-English uniforms, and French advisers. Among these advisers was Yakov Sverdlov's brother, Zinovy ​​Sverdlov, who then bore the surname Peshkov. The head of the Kolchak government was V.N. Pepelyaev, a cadet who enthusiastically greeted the February Revolution, a former commissar of the Provisional Government.

Particularly blasphemous sounds the title of Kolchak - "Supreme ruler". It is known that such a title belonged to only one person in Russia - the Sovereign Emperor. Who and by what right gave this title to Vice Admiral Kolchak?

Kolchak was never free in his decisions. He spoke about this himself. Lieutenant General K. V. Sakharov, a close associate of Kolchak, gives the following conversation with him:

“The Russian people cannot,” the admiral continued, “stop at anyone, nor be satisfied with anyone.

- How do you imagine, Your Excellency, the future?

Just like every honest Russian. /… / All strata of the Russian people, starting with the peasants, think only about the restoration of the monarchy, about calling their people's Leader - the legitimate Tsar - to the throne. This alone is successful.

- So why not announce now that the Omsk government understands the people's desires and will follow them this way?

The admiral laughed sarcastically.

- And what will our foreigners and allies say? What will our ministers say? "

The most openly democratic character of the Kolchak regime was revealed by the head of the "Arkhangelsk government" Socialist-Revolutionary N. V. Tchaikovsky. In 1919, he was summoned to Versailles for a conference of "victorious powers", where on May 9 he had a conversation with US President Wilson and British Prime Minister Lloyd George. It was about Kolchak. Tchaikovsky assured the high-profile interlocutors that "Kolchak is supported by democratic forces" and that the admiral would follow a "democratic policy."

In this regard, I would like to say a few words about Kolchak's role in the investigation of the Yekaterinburg atrocity. There is an order from Kolchak to assist the investigation of NA Sokolov to investigate the murder of the Tsar's Family. On the margins of this document is the following resolution of General Dieterichs, apparently made by him later: "The Supreme Ruler really did not want to give me this instruction, since he is under the strong influence of the German-Jewish party and any establishment of the truth on this matter is extremely undesirable for him."

Kolchak's regime could not fail to fail. At its basis, as well as the Bolshevik basis, there was a big lie. But unlike the Bolshevik lie, Kolchak's lie was spiritually more dangerous, for it was covered with national banners, gold shoulder straps, and Russian state symbols. Kolchak usurped the sacred rights and prerogatives of the Russian Tsar, and the pathetic propaganda of the "Constituent Assembly" emphasized this usurpation even more.

General Sakharov wrote in his memoirs: “The version was widely spread among the people that the white army was marching with priests in full vestments, with banners and singing“ Christ is Risen! ” This legend spread deep into Russia; two months later, we were told by those who made their way through the red front to our side from the Volga region: the people there happily crossed themselves, sighed and looked with an enlightened gaze to the east, from where, in his dreams, was already his dear, close Russia. Five weeks later, when I arrived at the front, they passed on their thoughts to me when I went around our combat units west of Ufa:

- You see, Your Excellency, what a deal, bad luck. And then the people were completely dreaming, the end of the torment, they thought. We hear that Mikhail Lyaksandrych himself is walking with the white army, again he has appeared as Tsar, he has mercy on everyone, he gives land. Well, the Orthodox people have come to life, it means they have emboldened, they even began to beat the commissars. Everyone was waiting, now ours will come, there is little to be patient. But in fact, it turned out not quite right. "

It is this feeling that “it turned out wrong” that explains the main reason for the people's passivity. And although at the beginning the people happily went with the admiral against the Reds, more than 150 thousand Ural workers fought in the ranks of the Kolchak army, as the hostilities continued, the popular support left Kolchak. The people intuitively felt that Kolchak was not the legitimate leader of Russia, that he was the same impostor, like the commissars were.

At the end of the Kolchak epic, under the blows of the red armies, everyone turned away from Kolchak. The allies betrayed him first. General Janin, carrying out a secret order from Paris, turned over the admiral and the head of his government, V.N. Pepelyaev, in red. On February 7, 1920, on the personal order of Lenin, Kolchak and Pepeliaev were shot. Kolchak met death with courage, as befits an officer. The same cannot be said about Pepeliaev. Contrary to the film, Pepeliaev, according to eyewitnesses, lost his presence of mind and begged for mercy. The bodies of Kolchak and Pepelyaev were thrown into the Angara.

They say that Kolchak liked to repeat the phrase: "Nothing is given for free, you have to pay for everything and not evade payment." His life and death were the best proof of the truth of this saying.

The White Army gave many examples of brave and courageous, disinterested Russian officers and soldiers. General Kappel, General Markov, General Mamontov, Lieutenant Nezhentsov. The same examples were given by the Red Army: Chapaev, Budyonny, Mironov. These people, each in their own way, thought that they were fighting for Russia, for its best lot. You can talk about these people with respect and give them credit. But you should never make heroes out of them. For there can be no heroes in the Fratricidal War.

Moreover, one should not heroize and extol the leaders of the fratricidal war: Kolchak, Denikin, Frunze, Kamenev, Vatsetis, Wrangel. And no matter how different from each other Kolchak and Lenin, they were united by one thing: the willingness to shed brotherly blood in the name of other people's political goals, in the name of an ephemeral "bright future." Admiral Kolchak wrote about this openly after the Brest Peace Treaty: “The war is lost. We will wait for a new war, as the only bright future, but for now we have to finish the present one, and then start a new one. "

The victory of Kolchak, Denikin or Wrangel would mean the economic occupation of Russia by the British, French and Americans. Let's not forget that the governments of Kolchak and Wrangel had clear obligations on this issue to the allies. The same thing would have happened, only outwardly in milder forms, which happened under the Bolsheviks. But if the robbery of Russia by the Bolsheviks was perceived precisely as robbery, then the robbery of Russia under the rule of the whites would be perceived as legitimate actions of the national Russian government.

We will be told, but why shouldn't we have fought against Bolshevism at all? What was it necessary to give the country to desecration without any resistance? No, we say. Of course, it was necessary to fight the Bolshevik monster. But this had to be done by people with a clear conscience and clean hands. These were supposed to be new Minins and Pozharskys, new Ivan Susanins, and not politicians-generals who forgot their duty to the Tsar and the Fatherland and dreamed of the laurels of "supreme rulers". But the whole paradox lies in the fact that if in the Russian army and Russian society there were Pozharskys and Susanins, faithful to duty and oath, no fight against Bolshevism would be needed, since it simply would never have existed.

Of course, the genuine Kolchak and Kolchak performed by Khabensky are two completely different people. Still, the hero of the film is Kolchak. Millions of people who today do not know history at all will perceive Kolchak precisely through the talented play of Khabensky, which means that the very controversial figure of the admiral, one of the organizers of the Civil War, will firmly enter the consciousness of generations as a positive figure. Such a person wants to imitate. And what to imitate? Kolchak's participation in the First World War is shown little and sparingly. But the love story of Kolchak is painted in all colors. Abstracting from the real Kolchak and not wishing to delve into his personal life at all, I would like to note that the story of an officer who stole his lawful wife from his comrade-in-arms and threw his wife and child on will of fate.

Peter Multatuli

Yekaterinburg Initiative


What are the times, so are the heroes. The phrase is already well-worn, but has not lost its relevance. With the change of the socio-political system in Russia, new ideals are imposed on our society. Struggling with the Soviet consciousness in the minds of citizens, the authorities are trying in every way to tarnish the values ​​of a socialist society.

One of the tools is an attempt to present as new heroes and role models those historical figures who were not at all popular in society and were staunch enemies of the Soviet regime.

This series of articles will be devoted to these individuals, as well as their "merits" to the fatherland. Let's start with the figure of Admiral Alexander Kolchak, the favorite of the current government. A real patriot and hero of his fatherland - this is how he was exposed in the film "Admiral". So still, Admiral Kolchak hero or enemy of Russia? Let's try to figure it out.

To answer the question posed above, it is necessary to get acquainted with specific facts from the life and activities of this “hero” of the “white movement”, “the Supreme Ruler of Russia”.

Kolchak Alexander Vasilievich(1873-1920), one of the main organizers of the counter-revolutionary movement in the Civil War in Siberia, the Urals and the Far East. In 1916-1917. commanded the Black Sea Fleet, Admiral.

In 1918-1920. A. V. Kolchak- "The supreme ruler of the Russian state", which was actively supported by the Entente. The Kolchakov regime was liquidated by the Red Army with the support of partisans in 1920. By a decree of the Irkutsk Military Revolutionary Committee, Kolchak was shot (Soviet Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1975).

Such personalities are held in high esteem by the bourgeois government. The leadership of the Irkutsk region decided to contribute to the process of “humanizing” one of the main executioners of Russia during the Civil War, and in November 2004 a monument was erected to the rebellious admiral. And now, in one of the cells of the pre-trial detention center in Irkutsk, a museum is being created to perpetuate his memory. Local bosses even organized a tourist route along Kolchakov places.

In essence, the decision of the Irkutsk authorities is highly immoral. Why? First of all, because Kolchak until now has not been officially rehabilitated. In February 1998, the military procurator of the Trans-Baikal Military District refused to recognize the admiral Kolchak a victim of political repression. The grounds for refusal were the available evidence that, with the knowledge Kolchak the military counterintelligence under his control carried out mass executions of the civilian population, the Red Army and their sympathizers. Government Kolchak encouraged the military with monetary awards for the number of "heads" destroyed by them. Counterintelligence shot people even for having calloused hands. Since you are a worker, it means for the Reds, then you are subject to execution. Thus, Kolchak as a person who committed crimes against peace and humanity is not subject to rehabilitation.

The current defenders Kolchak extol him as an outstanding polar explorer and naval commander. The future admiral also took part in the Russo-Japanese War. (True, he did not win any special laurels there, but he was a prisoner of the Japanese). In 1916 Kolchak appointed commander of the Black Sea Fleet with the rank of vice admiral.

Nobody takes away these merits from him. What was, what was. But the fact is that all their previous merits Kolchak crossed out himself, becoming in 1918 a puppet of the Entente. Having received the post of "supreme ruler of Russia" from the hands of Western moneybags, the white admiral began to impose order on the territory entrusted to him with an iron hand, and such that Siberia was washed in blood. Thousands of hanged, executed, tortured in prisons of the Red Army, flogged village women, ruined children and burned down villages - this is the calling card of the Omsk executioner who allegedly "gave all of himself to Russia."

In a short time of reign Kolchak In Siberia, during the punitive operations of the White Guard troops and their allies, over 40 thousand civilians were hanged, shot and burned alive, and about 100 thousand were thrown into prisons. In those days, it was the atrocities Kolchak oprichniks contributed to the fact that quite prosperous Siberian peasants took the side of Soviet power, providing Kolchak fierce resistance, although at first the Bolsheviks in Siberia did not enjoy success.

The book by A. Aldan-Semenov "Red and White" provides a dialogue between the Minister of Internal Affairs and the "supreme ruler". V. N. Pepelyaev reports Kolchak on the results of the investigation of peasant unrest in the Cannes district:

“- Your Excellency, on the Angara the punitive people hang people completely without sense, especially the ataman Krasilnikov is mad.

- What is he doing?

- You announced an amnesty to the partisans. One hundred and thirty men came home from the taiga. Krasilnikov immediately hanged them all as Bolsheviks.

- It can't be.

- Sorry, Your Excellency, but ...

- What else is Krasilnikov doing?

- He shoots priests, village elders, gendarmes who honestly served us. "This priest has not changed yet, but it can change, therefore, it is better to hang the priest." But other chieftains are no better. Annenkov, Kalmykov, Semenov, Baron Ungern. I can show you the documents about the monstrous torture ...

-Do not…".

Kolchak preferred not to notice the atrocities of his guardsmen, none of whom was punished. None of them even received a reprimand. It is natural that Kolchak the atamans, taking advantage of the connivance of their leader, did such outrages in relation to the civilian population, from which an ordinary person's hair stood on end.

***

In 1919, the power of the leader of the operetta "Siberian government", called the "supreme ruler of Russia", relied exclusively on the troops of the Western allies in the person of the motley Anglo-French-American-Japanese coalition. Received from them Kolchak"Humanitarian" aid, for which he generously paid with Russian gold stolen from the workers 'and peasants' state.

The fact that Kolchak is a puppet of the West's moneybags was known to the people from the very beginning. It is no coincidence that they said about him then: "The uniform is English, the shoulder strap is French, the tobacco is Japanese - the ruler of Omsk."

Kolchak's life changed dramatically in February 1917. It was during this period of time that his true essence and poverty of spirit fully manifested. However, judge for yourself.

A seemingly convinced monarchist who took the oath to the king betrayed this king as soon as he saw that the throne was swaying under him. Together with other generals and admirals, he signed a letter demanding the Tsar's resignation, and upon learning of the revolution, he threw the golden dagger into the sea, but immediately took the oath of office to the Provisional Government.

But the Provisional Government either could not, or did not want to offer the ambitious admiral a decent position. At the request of the indignant sailors, he had to be removed from the command of the Black Sea Fleet. Then the Provisional Government at the request of the United States on June 28, 1917 sent him to the United States as a mine specialist.

Arriving in the United States, Kolchak began to conduct secret negotiations with representatives of the governments of the United States and England about his transfer to serve in their armed forces or the navy.

The financial sharks of England decided that he would be extremely useful to them in Russia as the leader of the armed struggle against Soviet power. At the official proposal of the British government Kolchak arrived in the Far East and in the spring and summer of 1918, the British began to advance to the post of head of the anti-Soviet front.

The British who bought and recruited Kolchak, believed that he would be the most "solid contender for power" and had a real chance of becoming the "supreme ruler of Russia", with whom it would be possible to deal if the entire anti-Soviet campaign was successful.

In October 1918 Kolchak was sent by the British to Omsk by the Minister of War of the Directory (the democratic government of Siberia and the Urals). Having dealt with the local authorities, Kolchak declared himself the "Supreme Ruler of Russia" with the support of the Entente.

TV and the media called it a crime to disperse the Bolsheviks in January 1918 of the Constituent Assembly, which refused to recognize the decrees of the Soviet government. But then the majority of the deputies did not submit to the Bolshevik government. Anti-Soviet deputies organized the Committee of Participants of the Constituent Assembly (Komuch), seized power with the support of the Czechoslovak corps in the Volga region and the Urals, announced the creation of an independent republic and began a war with Soviet power. The organizers of Komuch, that is, the deputies of the Constituent Assembly, were executed by order of Kolchak without trial or investigation. If Lenin, who gave the order to dissolve the Constituent Assembly, is called a usurper and a criminal, then how would you call A. Kolchak who gave the order to shoot these deputies?

The Entente gave Kolchak 1,200 guns, a million rifles, thousands of machine guns, ammunition, aircraft, armored cars, uniforms for hundreds of thousands of people. Kolchak paid off with the third part of the gold reserves of Russia, where the rest of the gold and values ​​are still not known for sure.

Kolchak thanked the invaders generously. He gave the Lena River basin to the Americans as a concession, the Transbaikalia mineral deposits to the Japanese, the Northern Sea Route and Altai ores to the British (and this is not counting the gold reserves). The British plundered Russia from all sides. In Arkhangelsk, furs were taken from the warehouses and even dogs - Siberian huskies - were taken out.

How many tears were shed by today's liberal Westernizers over the sale of masterpieces from the Hermitage and other Russian museums in the 1920s and 1930s for the starving in the Volga region and the needs of the industrialization of the USSR! But none of them ever remembered the gold reserves of Russia, which Kolchak launched to fight Bolshevism. Moreover, it is considered "merit" Kolchak, his contribution to the liberation of Russia from the yoke of Bolshevism.

Side by side with Kolchak his friends the White Czechs raged in Siberia. A huge amount of gold and silver things, jewelry, paintings, carpets, furs and even purebred trotters were taken out in trains ... ["Tankograd". No. 24. 2008].

Power Kolchak lasted two years and left a terrible memory of herself in Siberia, the Urals and the Volga region, Pokamye, Vyatka and other places. And when today the townsfolk zombified by television begin to admire Kolchak as a talented polar explorer, an experienced naval commander, a brave and highly educated person with an intelligent and expressive look, they forget what the same Kolchak was doing, becoming “the supreme ruler of Russia”.

A... Kolchak stands out among the leaders of the white movement in that he was defeated not so much by the Red Army as from the general indignation of the population of Siberia! This is how Kolchak had to try to make Siberians hate him so much in just two years!

And there was something to hate for. The book by V. Zazubrin "Two Worlds", published in 1921, presents all the horrors of the Kolchak region by a person who experienced them on his own skin. In words, Kolchak promised people a paradise life: "I set my main goal ... the establishment of law and order, so that the people could ... choose their own way of government and realize the ideas of freedom ...".

But what he did not in words, but in deeds.

“... The village of Medvezhye. All the peasants were gathered for a prayer service in the square. Machine guns are aimed at the crowd. Bells are ringing. The priest reads prayers and many years to Kolchak ...

Then the same priest gives the officer a long list of peasants - "Bolsheviks". At the church fence, 49 people were shot writhing in agony. All other men and women of this village were whipped with ramrods and whips, all the girls were raped.

... Wild orgies of officers, where peasants are dragged; the gallows, where the children were hanged along with the adults. Czechs, Poles, French, Romanians, Japanese are rampaging and raging. The feast of the winners is in full swing.

Gentlemen, the officers are driving the Russian cattle, the Russian working cattle back into the barn. "

***

The army was rolling like a fiery tornado Kolchak across Siberia and the Urals in 1918. A tremendous danger loomed over the young Soviet republic. All her forces were gathered into a fist and thrown into the fight against Kolchak, although at the same time Denikin was rushing to Moscow from the south, and Yudenich from the north. If they managed to combine their forces and strike at Moscow together, the Soviet government would have had a very difficult time. But this did not happen for many reasons, including because each of the leaders of the white movement sought to appropriate all the glory of the winner.

The Bolshevik government took advantage of the ambition of the white leaders and went on the offensive. It began on the Eastern Front in the spring of 1919 with a strike by MV Frunze's Southern Group of Forces. And before that, the famous raid of partisan detachments under the command of the Kashirin brothers, who were part of the group of troops of a member of the Revolutionary Military Council V.K.Blyukher, was carried out in the southern Urals, in the rear of the whites.

In the summer of 1919, the Southern Group of Forces under the command of MV Frunze began an unstoppable advance to the east with battles and in June approached Ufa. The legendary 25th division of V.I.Chapaev distinguished itself in these battles.

After the capture of Ufa and Perm, the road to Zlatoust and Chelyabinsk opened. It was here that the fate of the revolution was being decided. VI Lenin sent a telegram to the Eastern Front: "If we do not conquer the Urals before winter, then, I believe, the death of the revolution is inevitable."

Army Kolchak rolled to the east, practically not showing any serious resistance to the Red Army. Demoralized, panicky fleeing armed crowds of whites rolled irresistibly towards Omsk. From the rear and from the front, Siberian partisans beat them up.

On November 14, 1919, the Reds took Omsk, capturing 30 thousand prisoners and many trophies. But the cellars of the bank, where the gold reserves of Russia were kept, were empty. Its remains - 21442 pounds of gold Kolchak took with him.

Let's hope that this historical figure will not be rehabilitated, and the truth about Kolchak's crimes and betrayal will not drown in the lies of bourgeois propaganda. Otherwise, it can be regarded as a real spit into the souls of Russian citizens and their history.

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43 comments

Alexander 26.05.2011 08:22

The very existence of the current rotten government, under which this bastard was pulled out of musty chests, is already a spit into the soul of the victorious people in two bloody wars.

Sergey-1 26.05.2011 09:40

Kolchak? Don't ask too much of the puppet.

Vasily, Gorky 26.05.2011 11:19

Yes, at least Vlasov will be rehabilitated.
"There will be a holiday on our street too" - STALIN

Nikolay 26.05.2011 13:47

It is not surprising that so much attention was paid to the PR of this bourgeois film. It's even amazing how you can make a hero out of such a non-human!

Nikolay Alexandrovich 26.05.2011 15:04

The heroization of Kolchak is a link in a long chain of falsifications of history, with the aim of discrediting the Soviet regime, denigrating the victories and achievements of the mighty state, and forming a negative perception of it among young people. Only the lazy, from the newly-born democrats, will not openly “kick” and “bite” the destroyed state. Well, the most sophisticated do it gradually, not intrusively, in order to change the assessments of the past among the adult population, who often have access to only one - three television channels and, at best, one newspaper. But they were the most reading country!

Visiting 26.05.2011 20:51

No matter how much the current running ahead of the steam locomotive (the ruling elite of Irkutsk) praised their own in spirit and aspirations (for profit), the fact will remain the fact. The overwhelming majority of the people then stood up for justice. In the most difficult conditions, they overcame hordes of interventionists from 15 states of "civilized" Europe. And he did what he did. It is sad, of course, that the people of Irkutsk allowed to create this masterpiece unworthy of the city. Actually, like the Saratovites, they did not oppose the establishment of Stolypin. In truth, they do not know what they are doing.

Nick 27.05.2011 10:29

In Omsk, they are also going to immortalize, erect a monument

Anti-communist 29.05.2011 01:37

It is interesting to read both the article about Kolchak and the comments to it. Everything is in the communist style: lump together facts and fictions about enemies, hide the crimes of the communists, and then publish laudatory comments. Russia will not rise from its knees as long as it remains here to lead the communists and their heirs.

Alexey 29.05.2011 02:43

Yes, mister anti-communist, you would be delighted if you read the following in the article: "On November 14, 1919, the Reds took Omsk, capturing 30 thousand prisoners and shot them all, the meat was loaded into sealed wagons and sent to Moscow and Petrograd, where Stalin fried from this meat barbecue and fed Lenin and Krupskaya! ":))

N.T. 29.05.2011 04:31

Well, the Anti-Communist is just ... amused that Russia still does not rise from its knees ...

hyde 17.06.2011 20:09

The article does not carry any informational content. Facts and fictions, legends and simple rumors that existed among the people or that have arisen over time are mixed here. No support for documents, except for citing Kolchak and Pepelyaev, whose origin is also very doubtful.

The point is not whether the hero is Admiral Kolchak or the antihero. The fact is that any statement requires facts. For example, this phrase:
"Its remains - 21442 pounds of gold Kolchak took with him."
Where, excuse me, have you taken? To Irkutsk? He did not even get to Irkutsk - the "allies" gave him up on the way. And what, where did he take the gold with him? Did he organize the treasury in prison? The facts that Kolchak plundered the royal treasury are doubtful. After the execution of the admiral, they did not find any foreign accounts (which many people like to talk about now), nor "houses and estates in Europe." Read the protocol of the inventory of the property in the car. Of the valuable - only the order, and a few jewelry that belonged to Anna Timireva. And his family lived in poverty for a long time.

I am not writing this to make the admiral a hero. Let everyone form their own opinion about this person. You just don't have to mix facts and fiction, and then introduce it to the people.

Pinocchio 21.07.2011 13:09

Recently I read a novel about Kolchak "The Admiral's Hour" (by Mark Yudalevich). Recomend for everybody!

From the author's preface:
“This novel recreates the times of Kolchakism in Siberia. For many decades, Russian admiral Alexander Kolchak was portrayed in print as a bloody executioner and unprincipled servant of foreigners, a puppet in their hands. On the basis of archival materials and stories of contemporaries, I tried to show Kolchak as a tragic figure. Alexander Vasilyevich was not a politician and failed to understand the situation of those years, let alone master it. But subjectively, he was a brave and honest man. It is impossible to cross out his merits as a polar explorer and naval commander, a hero of the Russo-Japanese and World War I. It is also impossible to become like those people who, until recently, accused anyone who said at least one kind word about Kolchak of idealizing this person, and now they zealously demand to erect monuments to him in Omsk and Irkutsk ... "
(Mark Yudalevich. Admiral's hour)

phoebus 21.07.2011 23:25

By the way, I agree with this preface.

Human 09.08.2011 23:08

It is very strange to read about the executioner-Kolchak, after 70 years of the Gulag and everything that we know about the Soviet regime, that selected human material was destroyed. Is this also Kolchak's fault? The personality is definitely outstanding! And time will put everything in place.

Citizen 20.09.2011 00:44

"Select human material."
Well, here it is - the rhetoric of the anti-communists. Their people are material…. Well, atk it was Kolchak who reasoned when he sold himself to the Entente and fought against his country. Well, he paid for that. There he is dear, the ugly.

Irenka 20.09.2011 20:36

And what, the existence of the Gulag automatically makes Kolchak an angel in the flesh? Nonsense…
And it would also be worth thinking about where Russia would have rolled if the whites managed to somehow miraculously gain the upper hand? Well, let's leave aside the fact that Russia would probably have been cut in half, but do you think that it would have been possible without repression?

Irenka 20.09.2011 20:38

And this nauseating film about him is not only opportunistic to the point of disgrace, worse than any Soviet popular print, but also absolutely devoid of artistic merit, like, incidentally, all New Russian cinema. Why such rubbish to fill the screen is generally incomprehensible.

phoebus 24.09.2011 17:28

Yes, Kolchak was not sold to anyone. They spread this nonsense even under Stalin - and you will not get rid of it already. That is, since we are talking about history, leaving ideology aside, we speak OBJECTIVELY, then there is no evidence, except, of course, the party archives, which have little trust.

a-r 04.10.2011 12:55

Kolchak is an ambiguous figure. But honor and praise to him for the fact that he was one of the few who sought to pull Russia out of the basements of the Cheka.

Zubkov Vladislav 21.12.2011 14:40

What are you people! I spent 3 years studying a historical person like Kolchak Alexander Vasilyevich. Do not listen to anyone and nothing! After Kolchak's death, the ideology in the country changed and history was now written by the Bolsheviks! Kolchak is a noble man! And I never was involved in bloodthirsty babies! And those who think badly of him simply closed their eyes !!! Think about it and do not drag your head !!! for Kolchak and his ideology !!!

Evgeny Zabroda, historian 21.12.2011 14:48

I will not study history for 3 years, but all my life. And I read a lot of literature about Kolchak. Everything that is written in the article is absolutely true. Kolchak is a traitor who has sold himself to the West.

Sergey S. 08.01.2012 14:48

Only bastards and subhumans can erect monuments to this executioner! I read the diaries of his advisers assigned by the Entente, my hair stands on end! They tied people in pairs and put them on the rails under the armored train, managed to roll off the rails, so lucky, no - the arms and legs of the needle in different directions, so the officers were having fun! ... Who are we making Heroes! Okay, A. Chapman, this is a harmless slut, but PUNISHER! It is terrible to live in such a state!

Your name 02.02.2012 16:54

Admiral Kalchak))) Bugaga!

Your name 24.02.2012 17:14

That's right, to demolish the monuments to Lenin, Peter the Great, Stalin, Alexander 2.

Ivan 24.02.2012 17:21

On the count of communists !! for White Russia

Ivan 24.02.2012 17:24

Mr. Zabroda, grandma's tales do not belong to history

Valentina 02.04.2012 05:31

It was a civil war, the enemy beat the enemy, but did the communists cut out the peaceful people less in this war? And in the 20-40s, who organized the outrage without trial and investigation, were shot? History has shown that the communist system is rotten no less than those whom they abuse. Why judge some of the executioners and praise others Lenin Stalin, the communists are ridiculous!

Human 06.02.2013 04:04

Less than three times. But in fact, six times. The Denikin commission to investigate the atrocities of the Bolsheviks set the figure at six thousand people. Can Denikin be called objective and disinterested? I doubt something. And to remind, how many, for example, one chieftain Krasnov ruined? Why look at Deniin himself.

Anna 11.02.2013 15:49

Admiral-GREAT man who did not spare his life in the name of his Fatherland. If at least one of the "comrades" who spoke out here had read the real archival documents, studied the facts, they would not have written such nonsense, from which a more or less educated historian is simply made ridiculous. It's time to learn history from documents, not Soviet textbooks.
In principle, I do not consider the article worthy of comment, I would like to ask the person what state of mind he made.

Sportsman 09/21/2013 06:03

The entire white movement is a reaction to the revolt of the Bolsheviks \ Jews \ in the capital, to their bandit dispersal of the Constituent Assembly, which was assembled following the results of free democratic elections, where the Bolsheviks suffered a crushing defeat. The white movement had no other goals besides defending the results and goals of the February Revolution. Kolchak was an active participant in this democratic white movement.

che 03.02.2014 20:17

Kolchak was so outraged by the dispersal of the Constituent Assembly that he decided to shoot him. Kolchak so defended the values ​​of the February revolution that, at the numerous requests of the sailors, he was recalled abroad. Where is the logic, athlete? In general, it is now fashionable to glorify people who mercilessly fought, and not with the Bolsheviks, but with the working Russian people. Nicholas 2 (only on January 9, 1905, peaceful demonstrators were killed, among whom were more than one thousand women and children) Stolypin, who was associated by his contemporaries with a tie and a carriage (arranged a merciless terror against the mutinous peasants who were hanged on rafts and let down the river) , Kolchak (methods of fighting the civilian population are comparable to the fascist)

Victor Dorozhkin 18.11.2014 03:18

everything is true Lieutenant Zanin with the punitive detachment was the boss in our village and the peasants hanged the workaholic and the rest managed to go to Shchetinkin

Lotos 07.10.2015 02:21

Reading about the fate of the generals of admirals and wondering all the great and beautiful) And who drove the peasants into a bestial state, who did not shield the soldiers for the people.

Gennady Stupnitsky 08.04.2016 06:59

About the king of the most terrible cruelty

Time will not smooth the edges of this chasm -
Remembers the people on the Chitinka River
About the king of the most terrible cruelty
Everyone is now beloved Kolchak.

The memory keeps what the Kolchakites did.
(Let the crosses dry on the graves)
How all Siberia shook with executions,
As the poles passed along the backs.

He was considered another great in America
He was also very in love with England.
I can already see how they are hysterical
New whites of troubled times.

I do not understand where you made a choice
In kindergarten or maybe in the cinema?
Began around to be called all white
The grandfathers were red for a long time.

Chapay 05.05.2017 22:10

How many resemble grandfather Shchukar!

Sergey 04.07.2017 18:16

At a meeting in Paris on December 23, 1917, the "Entente Plan" was adopted and promulgated by US President Woodrow Wilson on the eve of 1918. The plan provided for the division of Russia into spheres of influence and was called the "Conditions of the Convention."
It was after the adoption of this plan that Kolchak (with a small letter), as a colonel in the British army, was sent to Siberia to implement it.
A. Kolchak in letters to A. Timireva:
"December 30, 1917 I have been accepted into the service of His Majesty the King of England"
“Singapore, March 16. (1918) Met by order of the British government to return immediately to China to work in Manchuria and Siberia. It found that using me there in the form of allies and Russia is preferable to Mesopotamia. "
I wonder why the invaders were in the camp of the bloody "patriots"? Why did the whites fight the foreign bastard shoulder to shoulder for the destruction of Russia? And the "vile" Bolsheviks saved our statehood?

Sergey 04.07.2017 18:27

The communists saved our country twice - in 1917 and in 1941. Twice they rebuilt the economy from scratch. We have overcome hunger and devastation twice. Twice they stood against the whole world and still remained rich enough, did not slip to the level of third countries! (the United States also helped the Nazis with materials and equipment until 1944, as we did under Lend-Lease, through private firms). We have preserved our identity, our culture twice.
What did the liberals do? compare the period from 1922 to 1941 and the period from 1985 (Gorbochev came to power) to this day? Anything to be proud of?

Sergey 04.07.2017 18:44

Kolchak (white movement), Vlasov (service to the Third Reich) and Yeltsin (drunkard) have one flag.
Kolchak (white movement), Vlasov (service to the Third Reich) and Yeltsin are liberals and "democrats".
Kolchak (white movement), Vlasov (service to the Third Reich) and Yeltsin (drunkard) have one task - to dismember the Russian Empire, and as the successor of the USSR.
Yeltsin succeeded ... now we clearly see the "zones of influence" (Georgia, Chechnya ... now Ukraine) ... Is it enough for you? So who is Kolchak? for me he is an executioner and a traitor, just like Vlasov, like Bandera ...

Abdurakhman 29.09.2017 21:35

Kolchak is a venal hide, a sent Cossack, it was necessary to put him on trial and then there would be no disagreement now, Kolchak deserved the death penalty, period.

VILORA73 03.07.2018 18:29

Sergei, after the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly, the country was threatened with anarchy and anarchy. In this dangerous case for Russia, the great powers gathered and decided to divide the country into spheres of influence and not at all for conquering it. This is the real meaning of the so-called Entente slandered by the Bolsheviks.

Kolchak's regime was an ugly combination of external Russian state paraphernalia with SR ministers, semi-English uniforms, and French advisers. Among these advisers was the brother of Yakov Sverdlov. Particularly blasphemous sounds the title of Kolchak - "Supreme ruler". It is known that such a title belonged to only one person in Russia - the Sovereign Emperor. Who and by what right gave this title to Vice Admiral Kolchak?

The film "Admiral" with K. Khabensky in the title role has just been released on the screens of our cinemas. Despite many "bloopers" and historical inaccuracies, the film looks compared to today's film-making. Of course, traces of Hollywood and a clear imitation of the famous "Titanic" can be traced in the film quite vividly, but on the whole it lacks that sea of ​​vulgarity and absurdity that is inherent in our today's historical cinema. If the story in the film was about an unknown brave sailor officer from some unknown "Bohemia", then, perhaps, such a film could only be welcomed. But the film is not about an "unknown sailor", but about a very famous person in the history of the Russian turmoil, Admiral Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak. I repeat, Kolchak is known primarily not as a hero of the First World War, but as one of the leaders of the white movement, the so-called "supreme ruler of Russia." So, the film, willingly or unwillingly, creates for us a heroic image of a white general and, thus, creates a myth about the heroic white movement as a whole. But to what extent is such an interpretation fair in the historical aspect, and is the heroic myth about Admiral Kolchak so harmless?

Alexander Vasilievich Kolchak was born on November 4, 1873. He came from a Turkish family, and his grandfather Ilias Kolchak Pasha was the commandant of the Turkish fortress Khotin, in the 1790s he was captured by the Russians and went into their service. Already Kolchak's father distinguished himself heroically in the defense of Sevastopol during the Crimean War.

The future admiral received his primary education at home, and then studied at the 6th St. Petersburg classical gymnasium.

On September 15, 1894, Kolchak was promoted to the rank of midshipman and on August 6, 1894, he was assigned to the 1st rank cruiser "Rurik" as an assistant chief of watch.

Kolchak has earned the highest characteristics about himself. The commander of the cruiser G. F. Tsyvinsky later, becoming an admiral, wrote: “ Warrant officer A. V. Kolchak was an unusually capable and talented officer, had a rare memory, spoke perfectly three European languages, knew well the sailing directions of all seas, knew the history of almost all European fleets and naval battles».

On the cruiser "Rurik" Kolchak departed for the Far East. At the end of 1896, Kolchak was assigned to the 2nd rank cruiser "Cruiser" as the chief of watch. On this ship, for several years, he went on campaigns in the Pacific Ocean, in 1899 he returned to Kronstadt. On December 6, 1898, he was promoted to lieutenant. In the campaigns, Kolchak not only fulfilled his official duties, but was also actively engaged in self-education. He became interested in oceanography and hydrology. In 1899 he published an article "Observations of surface temperatures and specific gravity of sea water, made on the cruisers" Rurik "and" Cruiser "from May 1897 to March 1898".

At the beginning of the 20th century, Kolchak took part in the polar expedition of Baron E.V. Toll to the Taimyr Peninsula. Throughout the entire expedition, Kolchak was actively involved in scientific work. In 1901, E. V. Toll immortalized the name of A. V. Kolchak - named after him the island and cape discovered by the expedition.

Upon arrival in St. Petersburg, Kolchak reported to the Academy of Sciences on the work done, and also reported on the enterprise of Baron Toll, from whom no news had been received either by that time or later. In January 1903, it was decided to organize an expedition, the purpose of which was to clarify the fate of Toll's expedition. The expedition took place from May 5 to December 7, 1903. It consisted of 17 people on 12 sledges, harnessed by 160 dogs. During Kolchak's expedition, it became clear that Toll's expedition had died.

Then there was the Russo-Japanese War. Kolchak was wounded and captured by the Japanese. After four months in captivity, Kolchak returned to Russia through the United States of America. Upon his return from captivity, he was awarded the St. George's weapon "for bravery" and promoted to captain of the 2nd rank.

Then there was work in the Naval General Staff, then service in the headquarters of the Baltic Fleet. While working at the Naval Headquarters, Kolchak met with Admiral L. A. Brusilov. At the same time, Kolchak takes part in the work of the Duma Committee on State Defense, which was chaired by the leader of the Octobrist Party and one of the Tsar's worst enemies, AI Guchkov. It must be said that Admiral L. A. Brusilov was very critical of Emperor Nicholas II.

It was in the Baltic, in the rank of captain of the 1st rank, that Kolchak met the First World War. We will not dwell here on Kolchak's activities as a naval commander. Suffice it to say that his activities were highly valued by the Russian naval command and the Emperor himself. It was Nicholas II who promoted Kolchak to the rank of vice admiral and appointed him commander of the Black Sea Fleet. At the same time, those around him noted such negative qualities as excessive ambition and irritability in Kolchak. Sometimes Kolchak had nervous breakdowns, during which he retired and closed in on himself. One of such disruptions was reflected in the memoirs of Rear Admiral A.D.Bubnov, who then held the post of Chief of the Naval Directorate at the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command. Bubnov recalled how the news of the fire on the battleship Empress Maria, which occurred in 1916 and cost the lives of many people, had an effect on Kolchak.

« The death of "Empress Mary"- wrote Admiral Bubnov, - A. V. Kolchak was deeply shocked. With his characteristic lofty understanding of his superior duty, he considered himself responsible for everything that happened in the fleet under his command [...]. He closed in on himself, stopped eating, did not speak to anyone, so those around him began to fear for his sanity. Upon learning of this, the Emperor ordered me to immediately go to Sevastopol and hand over to A.V. Kolchak, that he does not see any fault for him in the death of "Empress Maria", treats him with unfailing favor and orders him to calmly continue his command. Arriving in Sevastopol, I found at the headquarters a depressed mood and anxiety for the admiral's condition, which now began to express itself in extreme irritation and anger. Although I was close to A. V. Kolchak, I confess I did not go without fear to his admiral's quarters; however, the gracious words of the Sovereign that I conveyed to him had an effect, and after a long friendly conversation he completely recovered, so that later everything went into its own rut».

But it was not ambition and irritability that became the reason that the gendarmerie took Kolchak into a secret development. General Spiridovich writes in his memoirs about important meetings in St. Petersburg, in October 1916, under the chairmanship of M. M. Fedorov, in private apartments, including those of Maxim Gorky. These meetings took place at least twice a month. In 1916, at meetings in Gorky's apartment, a "sea plan" of the palace coup appeared, to which A. V. Kolchak and Kapnist allegedly agreed (initials unknown).

It is not known whether Spiridovich is right in his memoirs or not, but here are the memoirs of the assassin of G.E. Rasputin, Prince Felix Yusupov. Yusupov recalled that immediately after the February coup, he met with one of the main rebels, MV Rodzianko. Further Yusupov writes:

« Seeing me, Rodzianko got up, walked over and asked on the move:

- Moscow wants to declare you emperor. What do you say?

This is not the first time I have heard this. We had been in Petersburg for two months already, and all sorts of people - politicians, officers, priests - told me the same thing. Soon Admiral Kolchak and Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich came to repeat:

- The Russian throne was not sought by inheritance or election. He was captured. Take this opportunity. All the cards are in your hands. Russia cannot be without a tsar. But confidence in the Romanov dynasty has been undermined. The people no longer want them».

So, according to Yusupov, Kolchak was among those who tried to replace Emperor Nicholas II on the throne by another person, in particular Felix Yusupov. This passage of Yusupov coincides with the information of Spiridovich. It is possible, again, not to believe Yusupov, especially since the prince was a liar.

But here's some more information. In 1916, shortly before the February coup, the Tiflis mayor A.I. At the same time, Khatisov assured the Grand Duke that Admiral Kolchak was completely on their side and was ready to provide the forces of his fleet for these purposes. At the same time, another Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich came to meet with the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich in Tiflis and also persuaded his relative to support the conspiracy against the Tsar, referring again to the loyalty of the Black Sea fleet. In this regard, it is interesting that in Yusupov's memoirs, Kolchak and Nikolai Mikhailovich also act in one bundle.

Immediately after February, it became known about the plan according to which the Black Sea Fleet was to move to Batum and there, and along the entire coast, to demonstrate in favor of Nikolai Nikolaevich, and deliver him through Odessa to the Romanian front and declare him Emperor, and the Duke of Leuchtenberg - heir

Thus, there are so many references to Kolchak's involvement in the conspiracy against Emperor Nicholas II that it is difficult to consider them just coincidences.

Whatever it was, but Kolchak immediately and completely recognized both the February coup and the regime of the Provisional Government. On March 5, Kolchak ordered to arrange a prayer service and a parade on the occasion of the victory of the revolution, at a rally in Sevastopol "he expressed loyalty to the Provisional Government."

The admiral spoke about the same devotion during the interrogation by the Chekists in 1920. To the questioner: “ What kind of government seemed to you personally the most desirable for you? " Kolchak answered frankly: “ I was the first to recognize the Provisional Government, I believed that as a temporary form it is desirable under the given conditions; he must be supported with all his might; that any opposition to him would cause collapse in the country, and I thought that the people themselves should establish a form of government in the constituent body, and whatever form they choose, I would obey. I thought that there would probably be some kind of republican form of government, and this republican form of government I considered responding to the needs of the country. "

And here is another saying of Kolchak, characterizing his "monarchism":

“I took the oath to our first Provisional Government. I took the oath in good faith, considering this Government as the only Government that needed to be recognized under those circumstances, and I was the first to take this oath. I considered myself completely free from any obligations in relation to the monarchy, and after the accomplished coup d'état I took the point of view on which I have always stood - that I, in the end, did not serve one form of government or another, but serve my motherland, which I put it above all, and I consider it necessary to recognize the government that declared itself at that time at the head of the Russian government. "

It is said very clearly, and completely rejects all subsequent aspirations of Kolchak's admirers "about the compulsion" of his service to the Provisional Government, about Kolchak's "secret monarchism". There was no monarchism, but there was a great ambition and desire for personal power. Throughout the spring of 1917, Kolchak directly and by telegraph communicated closely with Guchkov and Rodzianko. Guchkov repeatedly thanks Kolchak for his professionalism and dedication to the new government. At the same time, it is clear that certain forces saw a new dictator in Kolchak. When Kolchak arrived in Petrograd in June 1917, the so-called "right-wing" newspapers came out with huge headlines: "Admiral Kolchak is the savior of Russia", "All power to Admiral Kolchak!"

It is interesting that Admiral Kolchak arrived in Petrograd in the new naval form of the Provisional Government. In the film "Admiral" this form is coquettishly presented in the form of either an American naval uniform, or a form of a merchant marine. In fact, the new naval uniform of the Provisional Government, introduced by order of the new Minister of War Guchkov, was deprived of shoulder straps, and the cockade was crowned with a five-pointed star. It is clearly visible in the photograph of Kolchak in the summer of 1917. It is understandable why the filmmakers betrayed the historical truth! How they would show a "fighter against Bolshevism" with a five-pointed star on his forehead!

Arriving in Petrograd, the Russian "monarchist" Kolchak hastens to meet with the worst enemies of the Russian monarchy and assure them of his full respect. Kolchak paid his first visit to the oldest Marxist G.V. Plekhanov. This is how Plekhanov himself recalled his meeting with Kolchak. " Today ... Kolchak was with me. I really liked him. It can be seen that he's done well in his field. Brave, energetic, not stupid. In the very first days of the revolution, he took her side and managed to maintain order in the Black Sea Fleet and get along with the sailors. But in politics he is apparently completely innocent. He brought me straight to embarrassment with his cheeky carelessness. He entered cheerfully, in a military fashion, and suddenly said: - I considered it my duty to introduce myself to you, as the oldest representative of the Socialist Revolutionary Party.

Get into my position! I’m a socialist-revolutionary! I tried to make an amendment: - Thank you, very glad. But let me tell you ...

However, Kolchak, without stopping, rapped out: ... to the representative of the Socialist Revolutionaries. I am a sailor, I am not interested in party programs. I know that in our navy, among the sailors, there are two parties: the Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Social-Democrats. I saw their proclamations. What is the difference - I do not understand, but I prefer the socialist-revolutionaries, since they are patriots. The Social Democrats, on the other hand, do not like the fatherland, and, besides, there are a lot of Jews among them ...

I fell into complete bewilderment after such a greeting, and with the most amiable meekness tried to lead my interlocutor out of the delusion. I told him that I was not only not a socialist-revolutionary, but even known as an opponent of this party, who broke many copies in the ideological struggle with it ... - not a Jew, but a Russian nobleman, and I love my fatherland very much! Kolchak was not at all embarrassed. He looked at me with curiosity, muttered something like: well, it doesn't matter, - and began to talk vividly, interestingly and intelligently about the Black Sea Fleet, its condition and combat missions. He told me very well. Probably a smart admiral. Only very weak in politics ...».

This passage shows all of Kolchak's cynicism. He calls the Socialist-Revolutionaries, bloody murderers and terrorists, "patriots of Russia", with only one purpose: to please the "Socialist-Revolutionary", as he suggests, Plekhanov. Hearing from Plekhanov that he has nothing to do with the Socialist-Revolutionaries, but on the contrary is a "social democrat", Kolchak casually casts aside "this is not important" and continues the conversation. Plekhanov decided that this was a sign of a weak politician, but in fact it was Kolchak's complete moral promiscuity. In this he is very reminiscent of another tsarist officer - Tukhachevsky. We can safely put forward the assumption that if the situation had developed differently, then Kolchak would not hesitate to join the Red Army.

In addition to Plekhanov, the "monarchist" Kolchak met another "patriot" of Russia, the Socialist-Revolutionary Boris Savinkov, the organizer of the assassination of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich and the organizer of the assassination attempt on Emperor Nicholas II. A close relationship was established between the "monarchist" and the "patriot". Suffice it to say that Savinkov represented the Kolchak government and his Union bureau abroad.

Kolchak's connection with Savinkov, a freemason and secret agent of British intelligence, gave reason to some authors to believe that Kolchak himself was recruited by the British. However, it seems that these statements do not take into account the frantic ambition of people like Kolchak. The assertion that Kolchak was an English spy is as absurd as the assertion that Lenin was a German spy is absurd. Another thing is that such people were ready, for the sake of their ambition, to enter into a tactical alliance with anyone to achieve their personal goals.

Kolchak's relationship with Kerensky was also not as harsh as it is depicted in the film. Kolchak, of course, did not say any proud words about Kerensky's responsibility for the collapse of the army and navy. Moreover, he turned to him for help. Another thing is that by the summer of 1917, almost the same anarchy was going on in the Black Sea Fleet as in the Baltic. The sailors' speeches and riots followed one after another. June 6, 1917 Kolchak was removed from the post of commander of the Black Sea Fleet. Then the admiral, apparently, did not expect that he would never return to naval service.

They are constantly trying to explain to us that the removal of Kolchak from the post of commander of the fleet was caused exclusively by Kerensky's fear of the popular personality of the admiral. But in fact, this is not entirely true. Even before Kolchak's resignation, American Vice Admiral J.G. Glennon and the personal representative of the American President, Senator E. Ruth, arrived in Sevastopol. Apparently already then, in Sevastopol, they turned to Kolchak with a proposal to go to the United States to assist the Americans who entered the war in organizing mine work. What real goals this proposal had and when Kolchak agreed to them is unclear, but already in July 1917, in a letter to his mistress A.V. Timereva, Kolchak writes the following: “Now I can speak more or less definitely about my future future. Upon arrival in Petrograd, I received an invitation from US Ambassador Ruth and from the naval mission of Admiral Glennon to serve in the American Navy. For all the gravity of my situation, I still did not dare to immediately irrevocably break with the Motherland, and then Ruth and Glennon quite ultimately proposed to the Provisional Government to send me as the head of the military mission to America to serve in the US Navy during the war. Now this issue has been resolved by the government in a positive sense, and I am waiting for the final formation of the mission. "

On July 27, 1917, Kolchak leaves for the United States, but on the way stops in England, where he spends almost a month. Officially, the Russian admiral studied British military achievements. Nevertheless, Kolchak was not going to leave an active political life. Just before his departure, he received a telegram from Petrograd with a proposal to nominate his candidacy for the Constituent Assembly from the Cadet Party. He agreed.

In early August, Kolchak arrives in the United States, where he is met at the highest level. He met with the US Secretary of the Navy, his assistant, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of War. On October 16, Kolchak was received by President V. Wilson.

Just two months later, Kolchak leaves the United States and goes to the island of Yokohama (Japan). The purpose of this trip is again unclear. One gets the impression that Kolchak is deliberately delivered to the future theater of operations. Here in Yokohama, Kolchak learns about the October Revolution.

Upon learning of the coup, Kolchak began to ask to serve in the British army "at least as a simple soldier." He turned with such a request to the English envoy to Tokyo, Sir Green. After a while, he received a positive response and direction to Bombay, from where he was to be transported to the British possessions in Mesopotamia. But halfway through, Kolchak received a telegram stating that he should not go to Mesopotamia, since the British crown did not need his services. Therefore, Kolchak moved to Beijing to the Russian embassy. From here will begin his path to seizing power in the East of Russia.

The circumstances under which Kolchak's star ascended as the "supreme ruler" of Russia is full of ambiguities. It should be said that after the overthrow of the monarchy, France and England considered the territory of Russia as their prey. In the spring of 1918, the high command of the Allies in the Entente decided to overthrow the "pro-German" Bolshevik regime and establish their complete control over Russia. All anti-Bolshevik forces were subordinate to the French General M. Janin. The plans of the French included the occupation of the Far East and Siberia, as well as the Crimea in the South, the British planned to seize Murmansk and Arkhangelsk, the Romanians - Bessarabia. Meanwhile, this situation did not suit the Americans, who were left with nothing. The United States urgently needed its own man in Russia. And such a person was Admiral Kolchak. On November 18, 1918, Kolchak overthrew the pro-Anatnt directory and proclaimed himself the "Supreme Ruler of Russia." It is noteworthy that the first of the foreign representatives who visited the admiral was the US Consul General in Irkutsk Harris. He officially announced to Kolchak that the US government would give him full support. In 1918-1919, the Americans gave Kolchak 600 thousand rifles, more than 4.5 million cartridges, 220 thousand shells, a large number of guns and machine guns, 330 thousand pairs of army shoes. In February 1919, the American government sent a special military mission to southern Russia. It was headed by the former US military attaché in Petrograd, Lieutenant Colonel Riggs. The mission's task was to organize all kinds of assistance to the Kolchak armies.

Relying on American support, Kolchak was able to remove General Zhanen from the post of the de facto commander-in-chief, for which the latter did not fail to take revenge on the admiral later by handing him over to death. Kolchak's regime was an ugly combination of external Russian state paraphernalia with SR ministers, semi-English uniforms, and French advisers. Among these advisers was Yakov Sverdlov's brother, Zinovy ​​Sverdlov, who then bore the surname Peshkov. The head of the Kolchak government was V.N. Pepelyaev, a cadet who enthusiastically greeted the February Revolution, a former commissar of the Provisional Government.

Particularly blasphemous sounds the title of Kolchak - "Supreme ruler". It is known that such a title belonged to only one person in Russia - the Sovereign Emperor. Who and by what right gave this title to Vice Admiral Kolchak?

Kolchak was never free in his decisions. He spoke about this himself. Lieutenant General K. V. Sakharov, a close associate of Kolchak, gives the following conversation with him:

« - The Russian people, the admiral continued, cannot stop at anyone, nor be satisfied with anyone.

- How do you imagine, Your Excellency, the future?

- Just like every honest Russian. /… / All strata of the Russian people, starting with the peasants, think only about the restoration of the monarchy, about calling their people's Leader - the legitimate Tsar - to the throne. This alone is successful.

- So why not announce now that the Omsk government understands the people's desires and will follow them this way?

The admiral laughed sarcastically.

- And what will our foreigners and allies say? What will our ministers say? "

The most openly democratic character of the Kolchak regime was revealed by the head of the "Arkhangelsk government" Socialist-Revolutionary N. V. Tchaikovsky. In 1919, he was summoned to Versailles for a conference of "victorious powers", where on May 9 he had a conversation with US President Wilson and British Prime Minister Lloyd George. It was about Kolchak. Tchaikovsky assured the high-profile interlocutors that "Kolchak is supported by democratic forces" and that the admiral would follow a "democratic policy."

In this regard, I would like to say a few words about Kolchak's role in the investigation of the Yekaterinburg atrocity. There is an order from Kolchak to assist the investigation of NA Sokolov to investigate the murder of the Tsar's Family. On the margins of this document is the following resolution of General Dieterichs, apparently made by him later: “ The Supreme Ruler really did not want to give me this instruction, since he is under the strong influence of the German-Jewish party and any establishment of the truth in this matter is extremely undesirable for him.»

Kolchak's regime could not fail to fail. At its basis, as well as the Bolshevik basis, there was a big lie. But unlike the Bolshevik lie, Kolchak's lie was spiritually more dangerous, for it was covered with national banners, gold shoulder straps, and Russian state symbols. Kolchak usurped the sacred rights and prerogatives of the Russian Tsar, and the pathetic propaganda of the "Constituent Assembly" emphasized this usurpation even more.

General Sakharov wrote in his memoirs: “ The version was widely spread among the people that the white army was marching with priests in full vestments, with banners and singing "Christ is Risen!" This legend spread deep into Russia; two months later, we were told by those who made their way through the red front to our side from the Volga region: the people there happily crossed themselves, sighed and looked with an enlightened gaze to the east, from where, in his dreams, was already his dear, close Russia. Five weeks later, when I arrived at the front, they passed on their thoughts to me when I went around our combat units west of Ufa:

- You see, Your Excellency, what a deal, bad luck. And then the people were completely dreaming, the end of the torment, they thought. We hear that Mikhail Lyaksandrych himself is walking with the white army, again he has appeared as Tsar, he has mercy on everyone, he gives land. Well, the Orthodox people have come to life, it means they have emboldened, they even began to beat the commissars. Everyone was waiting, now ours will come, there is little to be patient. But in fact, it turned out not quite right. "

It is this feeling that “it turned out wrong” that explains the main reason for the people's passivity. And although at the beginning the people happily went with the admiral against the Reds, more than 150 thousand Ural workers fought in the ranks of the Kolchak army, as the hostilities continued, the popular support left Kolchak. The people intuitively felt that Kolchak was not the legitimate leader of Russia, that he was the same impostor, like the commissars were.

At the end of the Kolchak epic, under the blows of the red armies, everyone turned away from Kolchak. The allies betrayed him first. General Janin, carrying out a secret order from Paris, turned over the admiral and the head of his government, V.N. Pepelyaev, in red. On February 7, 1920, on the personal order of Lenin, Kolchak and Pepeliaev were shot. Kolchak met death with courage, as befits an officer. The same cannot be said about Pepeliaev. Contrary to the film, Pepeliaev, according to eyewitnesses, lost his presence of mind and begged for mercy. The bodies of Kolchak and Pepelyaev were thrown into the Angara.

They say that Kolchak liked to repeat the phrase: "Nothing is given for free, you have to pay for everything and not evade payment." His life and death were the best proof of the truth of this saying.

The White Army gave many examples of brave and courageous, disinterested Russian officers and soldiers. General Kappel, General Markov, General Mamontov, Lieutenant Nezhentsov. The same examples were given by the Red Army: Chapaev, Budyonny, Mironov. These people, each in their own way, thought that they were fighting for Russia, for its best lot. You can talk about these people with respect and give them credit. But you should never make heroes out of them. For there can be no heroes in the Fratricidal War.

Moreover, one should not heroize and extol the leaders of the fratricidal war: Kolchak, Denikin, Frunze, Kamenev, Vatsetis, Wrangel. And no matter how different from each other Kolchak and Lenin, they were united by one thing: the willingness to shed brotherly blood in the name of other people's political goals, in the name of an ephemeral "bright future." Admiral Kolchak wrote about this openly after the Brest Peace: “ The war is lost. We will wait for a new war, as the only bright future, but for now we have to finish the present one, and then start a new one. "

The victory of Kolchak, Denikin or Wrangel would mean the economic occupation of Russia by the British, French and Americans. Let's not forget that the governments of Kolchak and Wrangel had clear obligations on this issue to the allies. The same thing would have happened, only outwardly in milder forms, which happened under the Bolsheviks. But if the robbery of Russia by the Bolsheviks was perceived precisely as robbery, then the robbery of Russia under the rule of the whites would be perceived as legitimate actions of the national Russian government.

We will be told, but why shouldn't we have fought against Bolshevism at all? What was it necessary to give the country to desecration without any resistance? No, we say. Of course, it was necessary to fight the Bolshevik monster. But this had to be done by people with a clear conscience and clean hands. These were supposed to be new Minins and Pozharskys, new Ivan Susanins, and not politicians-generals who forgot their duty to the Tsar and the Fatherland and dreamed of the laurels of "supreme rulers". But the whole paradox lies in the fact that if in the Russian army and Russian society there were Pozharskys and Susanins, faithful to duty and oath, no fight against Bolshevism would be needed, since it simply would never have existed.

Of course, the genuine Kolchak and Kolchak performed by Khabensky are two completely different people. Still, the hero of the film is Kolchak. Millions of people who today do not know history at all will perceive Kolchak precisely through the talented play of Khabensky, which means that the very controversial figure of the admiral, one of the organizers of the Civil War, will firmly enter the consciousness of generations as a positive figure. Such a person wants to imitate. And what to imitate? Kolchak's participation in the First World War is shown little and sparingly. But the love story of Kolchak is painted in all colors. Abstracting from the real Kolchak and not wishing to delve into his personal life at all, I would like to note that the story of an officer who stole his lawful wife from his comrade-in-arms and threw his wife and child on will of fate.

In connection with the scandalous opening in St. Petersburg of a memorial plaque in honor of the war criminal Kolchak, a lot of materials have appeared on the network, revealing the true historical role of Admiral Kolchak.

Recently I came across one interesting article. The historian Arsen Martirosyan raised a new topic for me in "Kolchak studies". Suspicions, I will not hide, were "before": the mysterious disappearance of Kolchak in July 1917, his voyage to England, the USA and Japan, arrival in Omsk only in November 1918 ...

Interesting facts are reported by A. Kolchak himself in letters to A. Timireva: "On December 30, 1917, I was accepted into the service of His Majesty the King of England"

"Singapore, March 16. (1918) Met by order of the British government to return immediately to China to work in Manchuria and Siberia. It has found that it is preferable to use me there in the form of allies and Russia before Mesopotamia."

And also some oddities - with him on the roadstead of the Sevastopol Bay the powerful battleship "Empress Maria" was blown up and sunk for an unknown reason. On the eve of the explosion, dismissals from the ship to the shore were prohibited, and most of the sailors from the crew of 1,200 people died. Under him, the Black Sea Fleet also lost several smaller ships with crews - even before contact with enemy ships.

And now the floor is given to A. Martirosyan. Here's what he writes:

"... It's no secret that Kolchak was recruited by British intelligence when he was a captain of the 1st rank and a mine division commander in the Baltic Fleet. It happened at the turn of 1915-1916 ..."

So let's get down to studying.

Hiding the truth

The appearance on the wide Russian screen of the film "Admiral" prompted me to take up the pen. Undoubtedly, modern Russia needs a true picture of its great and at the same time long-suffering past. But one cannot once again "reshape" in spite of the available facts and disorient the viewer for the sake of commerce and conjuncture. It's not about the talent and charm of the actors or the director's skills, but about the attitude towards the history of our Motherland.

It is no secret that Kolchak was recruited by British intelligence when he was a captain of the 1st rank and commander of a mine division in the Baltic Fleet. It happened at the turn of 1915-1916. This was already treason to the Tsar and the Fatherland, to which he swore allegiance and kissed the cross! Have you ever wondered why the Entente fleets calmly entered the Russian sector of the Baltic Sea in 1918? After all, he was mined! In addition, in the confusion of the two revolutions of 1917, no one removed the minefields because Kolchak's entrance ticket to the service of His Majesty was the delivery of all information about the location of minefields and obstacles in the Russian sector of the Baltic Sea to the British intelligence service! After all, it was he who carried out this mining, and he had all the maps of minefields and obstacles in his hands.

Further. As you know, on June 28, 1916, Kolchak was appointed commander of the Black Sea Fleet. However, this happened with the direct patronage of the British intelligence resident in Russia, Colonel Samuel Hoare, and the British ambassador to the Russian Empire, Buckenen. This is the second betrayal, because Kolchak, becoming commander of one of the then most important fleets of Russia under foreign patronage, assumed certain obligations to British intelligence, which was very "sensitive" to Russian military activity in the areas adjacent to the Black Sea straits. And in the end, he simply abandoned the fleet and secretly fled to England in August 1917.

Kolchak received the title of admiral from the hands of the Provisional Government, to which he also swore allegiance. And which he also betrayed! At least by the fact that, having fled to England, in August 1917, together with the Chief of the British Naval General Staff, General Hall, he discussed the need to establish a dictatorship in Russia. Simply put, the question of overthrowing the Provisional Government, a coup d'état. Swear allegiance to the Provisional Government, get a promotion from him and betray him too!

Then, at the request of the American ambassador to England, Kolchak was sent to the United States, where he was also recruited by the diplomatic intelligence of the US State Department. The recruitment was carried out by former Secretary of State Eliahu Ruth. That is, along the way, the British were betrayed. Although the "Britons" certainly knew about this recruitment ...

As a result, becoming a double Anglo-American agent, after the October 1917 coup, Kolchak turned to the British envoy to Japan K. Green with a request to the government of His Majesty King George V of England to officially accept him into service! So, after all, he wrote in his petition: "... I completely put myself at the disposal of his government ..."

"His government" - means the government of His Majesty King George V. On December 30, 1917, the British government officially granted Kolchak's request. From that moment, Kolchak had already officially gone over to the side of the enemy, dressed in an ally's toga.

Why the enemy? Because, firstly, on November 15 (28), 1917, the Supreme Council of the Entente made an official decision to intervene in Russia. Secondly, already on December 10 (23), 1917, the leaders of the European core of the Entente - England and France - signed a convention on the division of Russia into spheres of influence (for the information of readers: this convention was never officially annulled). According to her, the allies deigned to divide Russia as follows: the North of Russia and the Baltic states fell into the zone of British influence, France got Ukraine and the South of Russia.

If Kolchak simply cooperated (for example, within the framework of military-technical supplies) with his former allies in the Entente, as many White Guard generals did, this would be one thing. Even in spite of the fact that they also took upon themselves not too benevolent obligations. However, they at least de facto acted as something independent, not formally turning to the service of a foreign state. But Kolchak officially went into the service of Great Britain. British General Knox, who supervised Kolchak in Siberia, at one time openly admitted that the British were directly responsible for the creation of the Kolchak government. All this is now well known and documented, including from foreign sources.

So it's time to end the collective groaning for the supposedly innocently murdered admiral. Without denying at the same time his previous undoubted scientific merits to Russia, one cannot fail to notice that he crossed them out with his own hand. In the documents of the British intelligence, the US State Department, in the personal correspondence of the "gray cardinal" of American policy during the First World War, Colonel A.V. Kolchak is directly called their double agent (these documents are known to historians) ...

On November 11, 1918, the Compiegne Agreement was signed in the suburbs of Paris, Compiegne, which ended the First World War. When he is remembered, as a rule, very “elegantly” forget to mention that it was just a ceasefire agreement for a period of 36 days. In addition, it was signed without the participation of Russia, which endured the brunt of the war in the status of an empire, and then, already becoming Soviet, rendered a colossal service to the same Entente with its revolutionary intervention in the events in Germany. Without her help, the Entente would have been busy with Kaiser's Germany for a long time ...

Article 12 of the Compiegne Armistice Agreement stated: "All German troops that are now in the territories that made up Russia before the war must equally return to Germany as soon as the Allies recognize that the moment has come for this, taking into account the internal situation of these territories. ". However, the secret subparagraph of the same article 12 already directly obliged Germany to keep its troops in the Baltic to fight Soviet Russia until the arrival of troops and fleets (in the Baltic Sea) of the Entente member countries. Such actions of the Entente were openly anti-Russian, because no one had the slightest right to decide the fate of the occupied Russian territories without the participation of Russia, I emphasize, even the Soviet one.

During the period of the actual German occupation, as well as after the signing of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty by the German occupation authorities, huge chunks of purely Russian territories were forcibly "cut" to the Baltic territories. To Estonia - parts of the Petersburg and Pskov provinces, in particular Narva, Pechora and Izborsk, to Latvia - the Dvinsky, Lyudinsky and Rezhitsky districts of the Vitebsk province and part of the Ostrovsky district of the Pskov province, to Lithuania - parts of the Suvalka and Vilna provinces inhabited by Belarusians.

Lenin, who tried to recapture the Baltic states by force, was absolutely right de facto and, what is especially important in this regard, de jure. Because official diplomatic relations were unilaterally severed with Soviet Russia by Kaiser's Germany, which soon collapsed, and the Brest-Litovsk Treaty with the Germans automatically lost any force. Consequently, the Baltic states, which remained under German occupation, both de facto and de jure, turned into the territory of Russia that was illegally torn away and occupied by the troops of the deceased state. From a purely military-geopolitical point of view, the armed onslaught of the Bolsheviks on the Baltic states, which began on November 13, 1918, was absolutely justified in the nature of an objectively necessary counter-offensive in order to protect the state's own territory.

Despite the failure of this armed campaign, the fate of the Baltic territories could not be decided without the participation of Russia, even if only in the person of some traitor. And the Entente entrusted this vile deed to Admiral Kolchak. On May 26, 1919, the Supreme Council of the Entente sent a note to the admiral (his actions on behalf of the allied command were directed by the already mentioned British General Knox and the military intelligence intellectual J. Halford Mackinder, later a famous British geopolitician), in which, announcing the severance of relations with the Soviet government, expressed his readiness to recognize him as the supreme ruler of Russia. And that's what is characteristic. They recognized him, but only de facto. And with all this, they demanded from him purely legal actions - they gave him a tough ultimatum, according to which Kolchak had to agree in writing to:

1. The secession of Poland and Finland from Russia, which made no sense, especially in relation to Finland, was not, except for the fierce desire of London to arrange everything so that these countries received independence allegedly from the hands of the Entente.

The fact is that the independence of Finland was granted by the Soviet government on December 31, 1917, which, by the way, is still celebrated by Finland. That was the right step, because her stay in Russia, where, according to the Treaty of Friedrichsgam in 1809, was included by Alexander I (at the request of the ancestor of the future ruler of Finland Mannerheim), was not only meaningless, but also dangerous due to the purely nationalist separatism that was blazing there. As for Poland, after the events of October 1917, it already became independent - Lenin did not interfere with this.

2. Transfer of the issue of secession of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania (as well as the Caucasus and the Trans-Caspian region) from Russia to the arbitration of the League of Nations in the event that the necessary agreements are not reached between Kolchak and the "governments" of these territories. Along the way, Kolchak was presented with an ultimatum that he should recognize the right of the Versailles Conference to decide the fate of Bessarabia.

In addition, Kolchak had to ensure that he would not restore "special privileges in favor of any class or organization" and, in general, the previous regime. A little explanation. Simply put, the Entente was not satisfied with the restoration of not only the tsarist regime, but even the regime of the Provisional Government. And if it is simpler, then a united and indivisible Russia as a state and a country.

On June 12, 1919, Kolchak gave the necessary written answer to the Entente, which she considered satisfactory. Once again I draw your attention to the special meanness of the Entente. She recognized Kolchak only de facto, but she issued an ultimatum de jure.

And the Entente recognized the answer from the only de facto "supreme ruler" of Russia de jure. As a result, Kolchak in one fell swoop crossed out all the conquests of Peter the Great and the Treaty of Nishtad itself between Russia and Sweden of August 30, 1721. Under this agreement, the territories of Ingermanland, part of Karelia, all of Estonia and Livonia with the cities of Riga, Revel (Tallinn), Dorpat, Narva, Vyborg, Kexholm, the islands of Ezel and Dago were transferred to Russia and its successors into complete, undeniable and eternal possession and property. Until the First World War, for almost two centuries, no one in the world even tried to dispute this, especially since the Treaty of Nystad itself was confirmed in writing and guaranteed by the same England and France ...

When Kolchak completed the tasks assigned to him and huge chunks of the territory of the Russian state were de jure torn away, his fate was decided. The Moor has done his job - the Moor can leave, or even better if he is removed from the arena - preferably by someone else's hands. By the hands of the representative of the Entente under Kolchak, General Janin, and with the assistance of the Czechoslovak corps. The admiral, who failed to become the Cromwell of Russia, was "surrendered" without remorse. It remains to say about the following. On what the Anglo-Saxons "took" Kolchak - whether on immense vanity, whether on the use of drugs (Kolchak was an avid cocaine addict) or on both at the same time, or on something else - now it is impossible to establish. But you can still guess about something. It is not excluded that in Kolchak the feeling of ancestral revenge for their distant ancestor - the commander of the Khotyn fortress in 1739 Ilias Kalchak-Pasha, from whom the Kalchak family began in Russia, was "kindled". Ilias Kalchak Pasha - this is how his name was written in the 18th century - was forced to surrender to the Russian troops under the command of Minich during the next Russian-Turkish war. After 180 years, a distant descendant of Ilias Kalchak Pasha - A.V. Kolchak - surrendered to the West all the conquests of Peter I and his heirs. This is who they are trying to present today as a true patriot of Russia and an innocent victim. (all selections in the text are mine. - arctus)

This side of life should be known and studied not only by opponents, but also by Kolchak's apologists. It is better not to be mistaken than to be mistaken. And it happens. Talleyrand, France's most famous foreign minister, worked as an agent of Russian influence until the fall of Napoleon.

On December 31, 1917, Admiral Kolchak deliberately went over to the side of the British king, after which he served him faithfully, and all his actions, again deliberately, were directed purely against his own Motherland - Russia. And more specifically, to destroy its territorial integrity.

Therefore, if we talk about his honor and loyalty, then yes, in relation to the British crown, he kept them until his death - which naturally followed in the form of execution for the betrayal of the Motherland that nurtured and elevated him - Russia and faithful service to its primordial and vile enemies.

Admiral Kolchak: a traitor and only a traitor!

Recently, there have been more and more demands for the rehabilitation of Admiral Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak as an allegedly innocent victim of the political repression of the Bolsheviks. Sometimes it almost comes to hysteria on the part of the "democrats-rehabilitators" demanding a full justification for the actions of this traitor to Russia. So, shortly before his death, the extremely odious "architect of perestroika" and the same traitor - Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev, foaming at his mouth from TV screens, demanded the complete rehabilitation of A.V. Kolchak.

What for? Why do some traitors care so much about the "fair name" of other traitors who preceded them ?! Indeed, since the gray biblical times, betrayal has been the only a priori unforgivable act and, therefore, regardless of any previous services to Russia, a traitor should remain a traitor! And we have managed to erect a monument in Irkutsk to the traitor who officially entered the service of the British king !? And a multiple traitor. Worse than that. A traitor who not only managed to formalize his transition to the side of ardent enemies of Russia, but also de jure to formalize the forcible dismemberment of the Russian State! After all, many territorial and political problems, in particular, with the same Baltic limitrophes, are generated precisely by his activities! Judge for yourself.

Kolchak was recruited by British intelligence when he was a captain of the 1st rank and commander of a mine division in the Baltic Fleet. It happened at the turn of 1915-1916. This was already treason to the Tsar and the Fatherland, to which he swore allegiance and kissed the cross! Have you ever wondered why the Entente fleets calmly entered the Russian sector of the Baltic Sea in 1918 ?! After all, he was mined! In addition, in the confusion of the two revolutions of 1917, no one removed the minefields. Yes, because Kolchak's entrance ticket to the British intelligence service was the delivery of all information about the location of minefields and obstacles in the Russian sector of the Baltic Sea! After all, it was he who carried out this mining and he had all the maps of minefields and obstacles in his hands!

Further. As you know, on June 28, 1916, Kolchak was appointed commander of the Black Sea Fleet. However, this happened with the direct patronage of the British intelligence resident in Russia, Colonel Samuel Hoare, and the British ambassador to the Russian Empire Byukenen (the tsar is also good - no, to send English allies to the Bigben's mother so that they do not interfere in the internal affairs of the empire). This is the second betrayal, because, under such patronage, becoming the commander of one of the then most important fleets of Russia, Kolchak assumed obligations to fulfill the official task of British intelligence to disorganize and reduce the combat effectiveness of this fleet. And, in the end, he fulfilled it - he simply abandoned the fleet and in August 1917 secretly fled to England. How can you call the commander of a fleet who, during a war, basely abandons his fleet and secretly flees from the country to the border ?! What does he deserve in this case ?! At least more than a clear definition - TRAITOR and TRAINER!

Kolchak received the title of admiral from the hands of the Provisional Government, to which he also swore allegiance. And which he also betrayed! At least by the fact that, having secretly escaped to England, he already in August 1917, together with the chief of the British Naval General Staff, General Hall, discussed the need to establish a dictatorship in Russia! Simply put, the question of overthrowing the Provisional Government! If it is even simpler, then the question of a coup d'état. Otherwise, mi, sorry, how could a dictatorship be established ?! To swear allegiance to the already vile Provisional Government that overthrew the tsar, get a promotion from him and immediately betray him too !? This is already a genetic pathology! Below I will explain what is the matter.

Then, at the request of the American ambassador to England, Kolchak was sent to the United States, where he was also recruited by the diplomatic intelligence of the US State Department. The recruitment was carried out by former Secretary of State Eliahu Ruth. That is, along the way, he has now betrayed the British too. Although the Britons, of course, knew about this recruitment. The fact that he temporarily betrayed the British is to hell with him and with them. The point is different. Going to recruit the Americans, he for the second time in a short time betrayed the same Provisional Government, to which he also swore an oath and thanks to which he became an admiral. In general, the list of his betrayals has only lengthened.

As a result, becoming a double Anglo-American agent, Kolchak immediately after the October 1917 coup turned to the British envoy to Japan K. Green with a request to the government of His Majesty King George V of England to take him into service! So, after all, he wrote in his petition: "... I completely put myself at the disposal of His government ...". "His governments" - means the government of His Majesty King George V of England! On December 30, 1917, the British government officially granted Kolchak's request.

From that moment, Kolchak had already officially gone over to the side of the enemy, dressed in an ally's toga. Why the enemy ?! Yes, because at that time only the laziest of the agents of England, the United States and the Entente in general could not have known that, firstly, on November 15 (28), 1917, the Entente Supreme Soviet made an official decision to intervene in Russia. Secondly, already on December 10 (23), 1917, the leaders of the European core of the Entente - England and France - signed a convention on the division of Russia into spheres of influence! And almost a year later, when in November 1918 the German Empire (and the Austro-Hungarian one too) was sent to the dustbin of History, and Kolchak was finally thrown back into Russia, under the patronage of the United States, the Anglo-French allies on November 13, 1918 confirmed that the convention itself, or, in a purely legal language, prolonged its effect. And Kolchak, who knew all this and was already a double Anglo-American agent, precisely after confirming this convention under the patronage of the same states, agreed to become the alleged Supreme Ruler.

That is why I say that he was a scumbag and a traitor who was officially in the service of the enemy! If he simply cooperated (for example, within the framework of military-technical supplies) with former allies in the Entente, as many White Guard generals did, this would be one thing. Even in spite of the fact that they also took upon themselves not too benevolent obligations that affected the honor and dignity of Russia. However, they at least de facto acted as something independent, not formally turning to the service of a foreign state. But Kolchak officially went into the service of Great Britain.

And the very Admiral Kolchak, who was shot by the Bolsheviks like a mad dog, was not just the self-styled Supreme Ruler of Russia, Admiral Kolchak, against whom the Bolsheviks fought, but the official representative of the English king and his government, who was officially in their service, who was trying to rule the whole of Russia! British General Knox, who supervised Kolchak in Siberia, at one time openly admitted that the British were directly responsible for the creation of the Kolchak government! All this is now well known, including from foreign sources.

And along the way, Kolchak carried out an equally important task of the Americans. It was not for nothing that E. Ruth "trained" him for the role of the future Cromwell of Russia. And you know why ?! Yes, because too much "compassionate" E. Ruth developed a barbaric plan for the enslavement of Russia, which had a decent name - the "Plan of American activities to preserve and strengthen the morale of the army and the civilian population of Russia", the essence of which was simple, like the revered Yankees popcorn ...

Russia had to continue to "supply" the Entente with "cannon fodder", that is, to fight for the interests of the Anglo-Saxons alien to Russia, paying at the same time with its political and economic enslavement, in which the United States had to play the "first fiddle". I emphasize that the central place in this plan was occupied precisely by the economic enslavement of Russia, primarily the seizure of its railways, especially the Trans-Siberian Railway. The bloody Yankees even formed a special "railway corps" to manage the Russian railways, especially the Trans-Siberian (by the way, the British at this time were targeting the Russian railways in our North, in the region of Arkhangelsk and Murmansk). And in parallel, the Yankees also aimed at the natural resources of Russia.

So it's time to end the hysterical screeching about the allegedly innocently killed supposedly honest and decent Admiral A.V. Kolchak. Scum and traitor - he is scum and traitor! And this should remain in history (while not denying his previous scientific services to Russia, one cannot help but notice that he crossed them out with his own hand). Now it has been definitively and documented that he was a traitor to Russia and that he must and will remain in its history of the twentieth century. In the documents of British intelligence, the US State Department, in the personal correspondence of the "gray eminence" of American politics during the First World War - Colonel House - A. V. Kolchak is directly called their double agent (these documents are known to historians). And precisely as their double agent, he had to implement the most criminal plans of the West in relation to Russia. And the "finest hour" of this traitor came in 1919. However, the West began to tread the path for his future crimes against Russia back in November 1918, at the time of the end of the First World War.

The main thing is that Article 12 of the Compiegne Armistice Agreement said: “All German troops that are now in the territories that made up Russia before the war must equally return to Germany as soon as the Allies recognize that the moment has come for this, having accepted into account the internal situation of these territories ”. However, the secret subparagraph of the same article 12 already directly obliged Germany to keep its troops in the Baltic to fight Soviet Russia until the arrival of troops and fleets (in the Baltic Sea) of the Entente member states. Such actions of the Entente were openly anti-Russian, because no one had the slightest right to decide the fate of the occupied Russian territories without the participation of Russia, I emphasize, even the Soviet one. But that is still "flowers".

The fact is that the terminological "pearl" - "... in the territories that made up Russia before the war" - meant that the Entente de facto and de jure not only agrees with the results of the German occupation of territories, the legality of which was part of Russia before August 1 1914, and even throughout the entire First World War, it never entered anyone's head to dispute, at least openly, but in the same way, that is, both de facto and de jure trying to reject, or, as then the Anglo-French allies expressed themselves "gracefully", to "evacuate" these territories after the fact of the German occupation. Simply put, as if in the form of a "legitimate trophy" obtained from the defeated enemy - Germany.

And in this connection I would like to draw attention to the following circumstance. As mentioned above, on November 15 (28), 1917, the Supreme Council of the Entente made an official decision to intervene in Russia. Unofficially, this decision was agreed upon back in December 1916 - they were only waiting for the now vaunted "temporary workers-February" to thrust their "revolutionary ax" into the back of the most faithful ally of the Entente - Nicholas II. And in development of this decision, on December 10 (23), 1917, the Anglo-French convention on the division of the territory of Russia was signed. For the information of readers: this dastardly convention has not been officially canceled until now!

According to this convention, the allies deigned to divide Russia in the following way: the North of Russia and the Baltic states fell into the zone of British influence (this, of course, did not exhaust the "appetites" of the Britons, but this is a separate conversation). France got Ukraine and the South of Russia. On November 13, 1918, the same Anglo-French allies under the patronage of the United States brazenly prolonged the term of this convention. Simply put, Russia was declared a second time, albeit Soviet, really war, and really world, and really the second in a scenario "off the wheels" of the First World War! In fact, it really was a re-declaration of the first "World War II" in the twentieth century in the scenario "off the wheels" of the First World War.

Lenin, who tried to recapture the Baltic states by force, was absolutely right de facto, no matter how you treat him personally. And, what is especially important in this regard, de jure too. Because official diplomatic relations were unilaterally severed by the Kaiser's Germany, which soon collapsed, and the Brest-Litovsk Treaty automatically lost any force. Consequently, the Baltic states, which remained under German occupation, both de facto and de jure, turned into the territory of Russia illegally torn away and occupied by the troops of the deceased state, which the Entente is also openly stealing! Moreover, declaring for the second time to Russia, albeit a Soviet one, another, that is, the next world war, the second in a row and in the scenario “from the wheels of the first”! From a purely military-geopolitical point of view, the armed onslaught of the Bolsheviks on the Baltic states, which began on November 13, 1918, had an absolutely justified character of an objectively necessary counter-offensive in order to protect the state's own territory.

But from an ideological point of view, Lenin was just as wrong, for he gave this armed campaign the appearance of an attempt to "come to the aid of the German revolution," which was fiercely rejected by all Germany, which Ilyich and Co. did not want to understand, since their enthusiasm at that moment, gently In other words, the idea of ​​a "field revolution", inadequate to the then realities, simply cut off in their minds even the shadow of a hint of any kind of rational thinking. The result was logical - defeat was inevitable, especially since all of Europe, with desperate efforts, right up to inciting an evil anti-Semitism in most of its countries, repulsed the attacks of Lenin, Trotsky and Co. and their German and other "colleagues" who were stunned from the bloody taste of the "world revolution" ...

But, in spite of the failure of this armed campaign, the fate of these territories could not be decided without the participation of Russia, even if only in the person of some traitor. And the Entente entrusted this vile deed to the now praised Admiral Kolchak, who by that time had become a direct agent of the strategic influence of the Entente.

On May 26, 1919, the Supreme Council of the Entente sent Admiral Kolchak, completely controlled by British intelligence (his actions on behalf of the allied command were directed directly by British General Knox and, subsequently, by the legendary British geopolitician, and then, by the way, until the end of his life, the most authoritative British military intelligence intellectual J. Halford Mackinder) a note in which, reporting the break in relations with the Soviet government, he expressed his readiness to recognize his own double agent of strategic influence in admiral's shoulder straps for the Supreme Ruler of Russia !? And that's what is characteristic. They recognized him, but only de facto. But de jure - miles sorry, the Entente's three-fingered were shown. But with all this, they demanded from him purely legal actions - they put forward a tough ultimatum, according to which Kolchak had to agree in writing to:

1. The secession of Poland and Finland from Russia, which made no sense, especially with regard to Finland, was not, except for the fierce desire, especially of Great Britain, to arrange everything so that these countries received independence supposedly from the hands of only the Entente (West). The fact is that the independence of Finland was granted by the Soviet government back on December 31, 1917, which, by the way, is still celebrated by Finland. That was the right step, because her stay in Russia, where, according to the Treaty of Fredericksham in 1809, was included by Alexander I (by the way, at the request of the ancestor of the future Fuhrer of Finland - Mannerheim), was not only meaningless, but also dangerous due to separatism blazing there. purely nationalistic.

As for Poland, after the events of October 1917, it already became independent - Lenin did not interfere. Consequently, from this point of view, the ultimatum to Kolchak was also meaningless.

2. Transfer of the issue of secession of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania (as well as the Caucasus and the Trans-Caspian region) from Russia to the arbitration of the League of Nations in the event that the necessary agreements for the West are not reached between Kolchak and the puppet governments of these territories.

Along the way, Kolchak was presented with an ultimatum that he should recognize for the Versailles "peace" conference the right to decide the fate of Bessarabia as well.

In addition, Kolchak had to guarantee the following:

1. That as soon as it seizes Moscow (the Entente, obviously, naturally "went crazy" that set him such a task), he will immediately convene the Constituent Assembly.

2. That he will not interfere with the free election of local self-government bodies. A little explanation. The fact is that under the seemingly very attractive formulation, a time bomb, colossal in its destructive power, was hidden. The country was then blazed by the fire of separatism of various stripes. From purely nationalistic to regional and even small-town. Moreover, literally everyone was involved in this destructive process, including, sadly, even purely Russian territories, almost absolutely Russian in terms of population. And giving them the freedom to elect local self-government bodies automatically meant giving them the freedom to separately proclaim the independence of their territory, and, accordingly, to secede from Russia. That is, the ultimate goal was to destroy the territorial integrity of Russia by the hands of its own population! The West, by the way, is always trying to do just that. In the same way, by the way, in 1991 the USSR was destroyed.

3. That he will not restore "special privileges in favor of any class or organization" and, in general, the previous regime that constrained civil and religious freedoms. A little explanation. Simply put, the Entente was not at all satisfied with not only the restoration of the tsarist regime, but even the regime of the Provisional Government. And if it is even simpler, then a united and indivisible Russia, as a state and a country. It is at this point, not to mention others, that the meanness of Kolchak's repeated betrayal is manifested most prominently. To someone, but he knew very well that the news of the overthrow of the tsar was received, in particular, in the same England, whose service to the king he volunteered, by the British Parliament with a standing ovation, and its Prime Minister - Lloyd- George just exclaimed: "The goal of the war has been achieved!" That is, he openly admitted that the First World War was started precisely for this! And, therefore, recognizing this point of the Entente ultimatum, Kolchak once again proved that he is a deliberately acting traitor against Russia!

On June 12, 1919, Kolchak gave the necessary written answer to the Entente, which she considered satisfactory. Once again I draw your attention to the special meanness of the Entente. She recognized Kolchak only de facto, but she issued an ultimatum de jure. And the Entente admitted de jure the answer from the admitted only de facto traitor to Russia! This is what the West means!

As a result, some Kolchak in one fell swoop crossed out all the conquests of Peter the Great and the Treaty of Nishtad itself of August 30, 1721! When he completed the tasks assigned to him and huge chunks of the territory of the Russian state were de jure torn away, his fate was decided. The Moor has done his job - the Moor can not just leave, but he must be killed, preferably by someone else's hands. So that the ends would all really be in the water. By the hands of the representative of the Entente under Kolchak - General Janin (the Anglo-Saxons remained true to themselves even here - they set up the representative of France for this unseemly deed) - and with the assistance of the Czechoslovak corps (they were also enemies of Russia, who raged at the direction of their western masters on the Trans-Siberian), the puppet admiral was surrendered the Bolsheviks. Well, they shot him like a dog, and rightly so! There is no need to squander the collected territory of a great state and a great country for centuries!



It remains to say about the following. On what the Anglo-Saxons "took" Kolchak - whether on immense vanity, whether on the use of drugs (Kolchak was an inveterate cocaine addict) or on both at the same time, or something else - now it is impossible to establish. But you can still say something about it. Apparently, in Kolchak, they "kindled" a feeling of ancestral revenge for their distant ancestor - the commander of the Khotyn fortress in 1739, Ilias Kalchak-Pasha, from whom the Kalchak family began in Russia. Ilias Kalchak Pasha - this is how his name was written in the 18th century. - was forced to surrender to the Russian troops under the command of Minich during the next Russian-Turkish war. After 180 years, a distant descendant of Ilias Kalchak Pasha - A.V. Kolchak - surrendered to the West all the conquests of Peter I and his successors!

It was an openly Jesuitical course of the West! By the hands of a traitor in admiral's shoulder straps, besides, not Russian by origin - after all, Kolchak was a "Crimean", that is, a Crimean Tatar - to deprive Russia of access to the Baltic Sea, for the right to have which, Russia of Peter the Great fought the Northern War with Sweden for over 20 years ! All the works of Peter the Great, his predecessors and successors were completely crossed out, including the famous Nishtad Peace Treaty of August 30, 1721, which legalized Russia's right to free access to the Baltic Sea and further to the Atlantic! Moreover. This is how Russia got a headache in the face of the viciously Russophobic so-called Baltic states. This was the case even before the Second World War, and this is the way it continues to this day.

And now "the scum ruling in democracy" - this inherently charming expression belongs to one of the most respected people in the whole world, "the king of dynamite" and the founder of the world famous Nobel Prizes Alfred Nobel - they glorify Kolchak not only allegedly as a patriot of Russia, but also as an innocent victim of the Bolsheviks' political repression !? Yes, the Bolsheviks did the right thing three times, that they shot him like a mad dog - for a traitor, especially of this level, nothing else can be !!!


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