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Essay by John Rapture: "What happened to us?". Introduction

I think I need to say that it`s just my opinion and it may differ from yours. I`m from Russia, and I want to talk about some things that I will describe below. If my English will be bad at times - sorry. In this article, I'm not trying to offend anyone or hurt anyone's feelings. I just want to give a normal assessment of what is happening. In essence, this is a scientific work, analysis, I will not take facts from the air, I will leave references to sources and so on. Perhaps this is against the rules of Wikipedia, if so - sorry. I'm not a brainless Russian alcoholic, I'm just a good person. Please, if you have time, read my work. If you are a Wikipedia editor, please do not delete my article. If something is wrong in my article, or I was mistaken somewhere, let me know, I am ready to listen to any adequate criticism. I hope you will treat me with understanding. History before the revolution in Russia 1917

During the war with Napoleon in 1812, Great Britain, Sweden and Russia signed the Erebru peace treaty. And England diplomatically supported Russia. This means that we were friendly to each other. Russia was part of the coalition against Napoleonic France. We are united to overcome our common enemy .As a result of the war between Russia and Napoleon, the Russian troops were able to crush the enemy, despite the fact that Moscow was on fire. After the defeat of Napoleon, Russia became respected among other countries and began to play a decisive role in Europe. At the initiative of the Russian Tsar Alexander 1, the Holy Alliance was concluded between most European countries (except England). And this alliance was aimed at maintaining international order. Probably the one who has seen enough propaganda about the "evil Russian", it is difficult to imagine a Russian person advocating peace. Then followed the Crimean War of 1853-1856. In this war, a coalition of countries, including England, as well as France, which wanted to avenge defeat in the war of 1812, opposed Russia. However, there was a country that supported Russia, it was the United States. We can say that Russia had friendly relations with the United States. The war ended in the defeat of Russia, although it did not suffer significant material losses, it was humiliated among other countries. Then the First World War began, it can be called the beginning of the end of the Russian empire. In this war, one important moment can be singled out - the East Prussian operation. In the course of this operation, Russian troops saved the whole of Europe, and it is true, whoever would try to deny it. Germany had a plan, at first to be divided with England and France, and then with other countries. But the Russians appeared and thwarted the plans of the Germans. This operation was a financial defeat for Russia, but it was a victory for the British and French, the Germans had to move troops from west to east to stop the Russians, because of this, the onslaught of Germany weakened against the entanty, and they were able to stand. The Russian soldier fell so that English and French could live. This is the whole Russian spirit. This one operation shows the attitude of imperial Russia to the allies, it sacrificed its troops for the good of the allies. The war brought too many troubles to the Russian people, many people simply did not have food, there was a class structure of the Russian Empire, which did not allow an ordinary person to take a high post. Because of such social injustice, people made a revolution. Initially, the revolution was simply for the liberation of the people from the yoke of the king, but eventually the communists came. On the night of July 16-17, 1918, the royal family was shot in Yekaterinburg. Many people were against the communists, and there was a white movement, they supported the monarchy and wanted to get rid of the communists. The White movement was supported by many countries: the USA, England, France, Japan. All these countries tried to help, but the end of old Russia has come, the era of the USSR has begun. The era of the USSR that some love, while others hate.

Era of the USSR

You can tell a lot about the USSR, but I will highlight a few important points in my opinion. In the USSR, and now many people forget about what the United States has done for us. In the USSR, it was intentionally concealed. In modern Russia, a similar situation. There are several episodes when the USA saved the USSR from starvation. Hunger in the Volga region is the first time. The second case is the well-known land-lease from the USA for the USSR. The third case was already after the collapse of the USSR. American planes delivered food to the starving Russians. They supplied mostly chicken legs, and the people called them “Bush Legs”. The USSR did a lot of bad things, such as the Katyn massacre, which is why the Poles hate Russians, and the USSR left something good in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, there were hospitals, schools, buildings built by Soviet specialists. However, the time of the USSR has passed, it will remain only in history books. And we move on, and then we have modern Russia, and this is a very complicated story.

Modern Russia