The Liquidation of Russia. Who Helped the Reds to Win the Civil War?. Николай Стариков

the building industry are aware of the following: each construction has the points of great importance, which provide its stability and indestructibility. To put up a construction for a full due one has to follow the work routine rules and calculate all the supporting points correctly. Those who deal with demolition of buildings are aware of these supporting points, as well. As soon as some of the key parts of the building get blown up, it will collapse like a house of cards, no matter how safe and invulnerable it has seemed. The same goes for politics: if the weak points of a state are known, it can be destroyed. You just need to blow the supporting structures up…

      What has been the bedrock of the Russian state for centuries? It was the autocracy. The residents of Russia were fighting and dying for the Tsar, the Faith, and the Motherland. It has been so for centuries. When there was no tsar, disturbance reigned in Russia. It was exactly the situation after Boris Godunov's death, when the Time of Troubles almost put an end to the Russian statehood. Russia's independence was at stake: the Polish and Swedish kings were eager to divide the territory of the Russian state for their own benefit. A brother killed a brother, a Russian killed a Russian. The country was saved from falling into the horrible abyss by the election of the new tsar, Michael Feodorovich Romanov.

      And Russia made a comeback. It grew stronger under the sceptre of the lawful authorities, whose legitimacy was questioned neither by the noblemen, nor by the ordinary folk. It grew weaker when the rights of the next monarch ascending the throne were disputed.

      All those wishing to destroy Russia were striving to interrupt the legitimacy of the Russian rulers.

      What was the main tool for building the Great Russia, which at the beginning of the 20 century stretched from Helsingfors to Vladivostok and from Warsaw to Port Arthur?

      The answer is definite: it was the Russian Army. The armed forces have always been the only tool for building empires.

      All those wishing to destroy Russia had to ruin the Russian Army first.

      Yet, any state is not only the armed forces but also the administrative management. It's the establishment and bureaucracy. It's the merchants and trade-related people. It's a whole stratum of society that facilitates development of the country and helps it move forward.

      All those wishing to destroy Russia had to destroy the century-old machine of the state government.

      The revolution in itself is not an evil incarnate. It's the consequences of the revolution that are terrible. The economy of Russia, its way of life, its population didn't receive the tremendous blow in 1917. A real nightmare came a bit later. It started in 1918, exactly during this first year of the Russian Civil War, when the country suffered the greatest losses and damages. Remember the Russian history. When did the military operations take place on the territory of our country last? On a large scale – in 1812, they hardly touched the Russian territories during the Crimean War in 1855–1856. In fact, in the remote provinces of the Russian Empire they hadn't seen war for about one hundred years. Whole generations grew up being sure (like the Americans of today) that the war was taking place somewhere on the outskirts of the country or abroad. The Civil War affected each and every home. It split families, it split the country.

      It did irreparable damage to the country's economy. In order to repair the economy the collectivization and the industrialization will be needed. This will cost Russia millions of lives more…

      The liquidation of the Russian nation started in 1917 and continued like an avalanche in 1918. Our story will be exactly about this period.

      Did any accurately made-up plan for the "liquidation" of Russia exist? Any step-by-step schedule? Definitely not. However, the most important points of this operation were clearly determined, and all-out efforts were made to reach the following targets:

      • the destruction of the legitimate regime

      • the destruction of the army

      • the destruction of the state in principle.

      Development of such enormous processes as a revolution is impossible to predict. The plan could succeed, the plan could fail. In fact, not all the objectives have been reached. The lawful heirs of the throne were killed, but the "unlawful heirs" took a firm hold of the rule. The Russian Army was destroyed, but a new one was established. Or rather, two armies – the Red Army and the White Army. The Navy was sent to the bottom, but not completely. A new state machinery was created instead of the old one. The main target of our geopolitical opponents was not reached – Russia didn't perish. It grew weaker and kept its head down until it appeared again on the political map of the astonished Europe in May 1945, having extended really far from its original boundaries. Only to instantly lose again in 1991 all its strategic advantages, which our grandparents had paid with their blood during the Great Patriotic War. And to once again in the 21 century have the strength to stop the disintegration process and start building up the Great Russia again…

      This book tells about the first attempt to liquidate the Russian state made in the 20 century.

      It tells about the murder of the Romanovs. It tells about the horrors of the Civil War. It tells about the secret operations of the foreign intelligence services. This book is about the loss of the old Russia and the search of the new Russia at the incredible expense of lives and at a high price in blood…

      We don't know our history well enough. It can repeat itself. God forbid that!

      Major Case Investigator Sokolov was standing in the middle of the office of the supreme governor of Russia. A man of average height, slightly round-shouldered, his arms constantly fidgeting; he was permanently biting his moustache and gave a strange impression at the first sight. The artificial glass eye and a certain squint of another eye just added to it. The investigator was holding a black leather folder with the report in his hand. The report on the death of the Romanovs.

      The admiral was gloomily working his jaw. He was the one to assign this short man, who seemed to be extremely responsible, to find out all the horrible truth about the fate of the crown-bearing family. Now the investigation was finished.

      Kolchak was twiddling a pencil in his hands. He himself asked Sokolov to begin his report with the abdication of Nicholas Romanov. Some questions had been running in his head for quite a long time, and he wanted to find the answers to these questions in the investigation results. The inklings of the truth about the last months of the Romanovs were mixed up with a lot of everyday details and the description of the humiliations they had to go through. It was difficult to listen to all of this. Very difficult. God, how is it even possible that the Russian soldiers and officers in such a short period of time turned into real bastards?!

      The admiral stood up and walked across his office, his arms behind his back. He simply wanted to shoot dead almost all those who Sokolov had mentioned in his report. Especially that rascal who stood sentry in Tsarskoye Selo and shot down a little wild goat in the park. The heir to the throne Alexei loved those goats so much. He cried and was very upset. The flayer was strongly scolded, but when he was standing sentry in the park next time, he shot down another little goat. For no special reason – just to upset to the crown-bearing child.

      – The Bolshevik government almost immediately sent a telegram to Tobolsk to inform that the people didn't have money to support the Tsar's family.

      From now on, the Tsar's family should live at their own expense. They were given an apartment and a soldier ration per person. At the same time, they were not allowed to spend more than 600 rubles per person of their expense per month. Cream, butter, coffee, and sweets disappeared very quickly from the table of the crown-bearing family. They received half a pound of sugar per month each…

      Kolchak turned to the investigator. Sokolov with his unemotional voice continued to describe the financial adversities of the Imperial family. Maybe, it's the right way – to make the report in an aloof and unemotional manner. Otherwise, the nerves would snap. But he, Kolchak, is not able to react like this. There is still a long way until the horrible end of the report, and his heart is already aching. The admiral raised the carafe to get some water.

      – …After the murder of the Tsar's family in Yekaterinburg, they found the military trousers of the former Emperor. The trousers were patched in several places,