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| Russian MoD disputes UK point of history |
| 2022-02-27 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited [REGNUM] British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said that in the past the United Kingdom "kicked Tsar Nicholas I", and now it "can repeat it." “The Scottish Guards kicked Tsar Nicholas I in 1853 in the Crimea. We can always do it again," PA quoted Ben Wallace as saying. Wallace didn't study history. While Russia did lose the 1856 War in Crimea, and was the encumbered by the subsequent Treaty of Paris, Tsar Nicholas, through negotiations, would up negating the treaty, a net win for Russia. According to him, Russian President Vladimir Putin allegedly "made the same mistake that Emperor Nicholas I once did , by going into confrontation with the West without allies." The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov , commented on Ben Wallace's statement as follows: “Not so long ago, the head of the British Foreign Office, while in Moscow, according to media reports, already demonstrated her wonderful knowledge of Russian geography. Therefore, the public deepening into the history of Russia by the head of the British Ministry of Defense Ben Wallace is no longer surprising. Especially for the British military, it will be useful to know that today's statements by their Minister of War about the Crimean War are nothing more than mythology. For the glory of Her Majesty." “The Balaklava battle of the Crimean War on October 25, 1854, did not go down in history at all thanks to the stubbornness of the Scottish 93rd regiment, about which Wallace spoke so drunkenly. The only feat of this unit was that it simply did not run away, like the rest, from the onslaught of the Russian cavalry. Suffered very bloody losses. But he didn’t win any victories either, ”continued Major General Igor Konashenkov. “However, the legendary destruction on the same day by Russian artillerymen in just 20 minutes of an entire aristocratic English light cavalry brigade under the command of Lord Cardigan entered the history of the Battle of Balaklava much brighter. It was this "feat" of the British in the Crimean War that enriched all the languages of the world and military textbooks with the concept of "cannon fodder". "We recommend that British military personnel study well not only the geography of Russia, but also its history. In order not to enrich our common military history with our lives for the sake of poorly educated British politicians, ”an official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense concluded his comment. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 Russia lost to an alliance of France, the Ottoman Empire, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia. Winners write the history. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-02-27 09:08 |
| #1 I always thought the Rus had Turkish allies in the Crimean War... |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2022-02-27 05:08 |