In fact, being left without artillery in our turbulent times is a strange step. A country can do this in two cases. If she knows for sure that no one will attack her. Or if she knows that if attacked, someone will defend her. The historical paradox is that for five centuries Russia shed blood for Denmark.
Ivan for John
In 1493, the ruler of all the Rus’, Ivan III, and the Danish king Johann concluded an agreement on a “friendly and eternal alliance”. In the Middle Ages, it was customary to befriend someone. In our case, that “someone” was the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Sweden.For a modern person, Lithuanians and Swedes are representatives of countries that do not play a key role in world geopolitics. But it was not always so.Half a thousand years ago, Sweden was a predator in the Baltic. As for the Lithuanians, their principality occupied the lands of Belarus, Poland, Latvia, Estonia and Moldova. By the way, our Kursks, Smolensk and Bryansk were also under their control. The Danes and I have corrected this misunderstanding.
Of course, it happened that they did not find a common language. For example, they discovered: whose Norway? The Danes considered it their province. As we are. But most often, everything was shared fraternally. So, in 1570, Ivan the Terrible, having defeated the army of the Livonian Kingdom, put on his throne not his relative, but the brother of the Danish king.Victories have alternated with defeats, but Denmark cannot complain, it has emerged from many wars with territorial acquisitions. And it survived as a state, although the Swedes tried to destroy it. But everything ended well, largely thanks to the Russian army.In 1807, Russia supported Denmark in the war against the British Empire. A bold move. But we took such risks: the contract is more expensive than the money.
native blood
We became parents in the 19th century. The future emperor Alexander III married the Danish princess Dagmar, in Orthodoxy Maria Feodorovna, the mother of Nicholas II. Which did the empire a lot of good, especially the creation of the Red Cross.After the revolution, the Empress Dowager left for the Crimea. And only when the local Bolsheviks decided to shoot her, she fled to Britain on an English cruiser, from where she moved to her native Denmark. Maria Feodorovna died in 1928, in 2006 her remains were transferred to St. Petersburg.Empress Maria Feodorovna, Danish by blood, with her son Nicolas II. Photo: stsl.ru”The head of the Royal Danish Regiment was our Emperor Alexander III. The regiment keeps the service he gave to it and cherishes the memory of everything that connects them to Russia,” said Sergey Khlebnikov, head of the security department regional Moscow, who, being the commander of the Kremlin, visited Denmark. At least, that was the case until recently.
goodbye anderson
The last time our soldiers fought for Denmark was in 1945. Five years earlier, the country was occupied by Germany. The Germans lost two soldiers killed, spending 6 hours to conquer the kingdom.In 1945, it was the hour of shame for the Germans. Their garrisons in Denmark surrendered to the British, but Soviet troops came to one island, Bornholm. The 12,000 strong German garrison refused to lay down their arms. And ours landed torpedo boat troops, taking the island with the forces of one company.Modern European historians try to pour dirt, accusing our soldiers of raping the Danes. But better than many words – a photo from those years: Danish girls among our soldiers. Look at their faces.Ours remained on the island until the spring of 1946. After that, the USSR offered Denmark to transfer Bornholm to the Danish army. And withdraw the troops. In other words, we went in, knocked out the Nazis and left.In Yuri Pechurov’s once popular song about Denmark (written in 1992), there are the words: “Silently night flies over the city, elves soar in the pink sky. Goodbye, Denmark! Goodbye, Andersen.. .”
There you go, the fairy tale is over. Shells paid for by the Danes hit Donetsk. As an epilogue to our friendship of five centuries and to all that Russia has done for Denmark. Goodbye Anderson.I agree that few people in Europe today can resist pressure from Washington. But there is a hint for the Danes, it was voiced on the airwaves of the Vesti Nedeli program by Peter Viggo Jacobsen, an expert from the Danish Defense Academy: “Danish frigates will go where the United States wants them to go. And if in the future the United States wants to get involved in Syria, Iran or the South China Sea and ask Copenhagen for Tomahawk frigates, it will be difficult for us to refuse. they won’t call us.The Caesars are unlikely to be recalled from Ukraine. But if you don’t buy new missiles and howitzers, then, you see, they won’t call from Washington to Copenhagen.Good anyway.
