Russia (bbabo.net), - The Russian Ministry of Defense commented on the absolutely ignorant from a historical point of view of history and frankly boorish statements by the head of the British military department, Ben Wallace.
In a conversation with military personnel during a visit to the Horse Guards building in Westminster, the minister issued the following tirade: "Unfortunately, we have an annoying enemy in the person of Putin, who has completely broken the chain." Wallace added that the UK has a thousand people on standby to respond to threats. "The Scottish Guard kicked Tsar Nicholas I's ass in 1853 in the Crimea. We can always do it again," the minister boasted. And he added that Tsar Nicholas I, they say, made the same mistake as Putin - he had neither friends nor alliances. Scottish Guard and, in theory, should know its annals.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation did not leave this "excursion into history" unanswered. The official representative of the department, Igor Konashenkov, recalled the recent visit to Moscow by the head of the British Foreign Office. She has already demonstrated her wonderful knowledge of Russian geography. Therefore, the public deepening into the history of our state by the head of the British Ministry of Defense, Ben Wallace, did not surprise the Russian military at all.
"Especially for the British military, it will be useful to know that the statements of their Minister of War about the Crimean War are nothing more than mythology. For the glory of Her Majesty," Konashenkov sneered about this. He gave his colleagues a kind of history lesson. "The Balaklava battle of the Crimean War on October 25, 1854, went down in history not 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 He suffered very bloody losses, but he did not win any victories either," the general said.
However, much brighter, according to him, the legendary destruction on the same day by Russian artillerymen in just 20 minutes of an entire aristocratic English brigade of light cavalry under the command of Lord Cardigan entered the history of the Battle of Balaklava. "It was this 'feat' of the British in the Crimean War that enriched all the world's languages and military textbooks with the concept of 'cannon fodder'," Konashenkov recalled. He recommended that British servicemen study well not only Russia's geography, but also its history. common military history for the sake of poorly educated British politicians," an official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry explained.
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