After World War II, Britain, France and other countries went to most colonies. Why didn't Russia lose an inch?

First of all, we must make it clear that Britain and France did lose most of their colonies after World War II, but they did not give up voluntarily. During World War II, British Prime Minister Churchill was even more arrogant? Britain will not give up an inch of land? . So Britain and France lost most of their colonies after World War II, not because of a sudden conscience, not because they were vegetarians, but because with the national awakening of World War II and the spoiler of the United States, Britain and France could no longer control such a huge territory and were forced? Vomiting Come out.

British colonies in the world

However, compared with Britain and France, Russia, which is more greedy and rude, has not lost an inch of land, but the territory of the Soviet Union has greatly expanded. In the Far East, the Soviet Union acquired the whole Sakhalin Island, four northern islands and other affiliated islands. In Europe, the core of the Soviet Union, in addition to a group of younger brothers, the territory of Russia has also expanded westward by more than 600,000 square kilometers.

Why can the Soviet Union keep almost all the colonies when the old powers have lost most of them?

The vast territory of the Soviet Union.

This is closely related to the Russian colonial way. We usually call the foreign aggression of European powers colonization, but this is not accurate, or it is not accurate. In fact, many European powers have different ways and means of foreign aggression. For example, the main motive force of British foreign aggression is to make money.

Therefore, most colonies controlled by Britain are or very rich; Or a large population, it can become a dumping ground for British products; Or it belongs to traffic or strategic places. Therefore, for most western European powers, the motive force for their outward expansion is not foreign colonization, but making money.

The partition of the African continent by European powers

Therefore, although most countries and regions in the world were occupied by western powers, few indigenous people were extinct except the Indians in North America. On the contrary, these powers also need to maintain the basic survival of the people in the colonized areas, prevent them from rebelling, and, of course, use them as dumping grounds for goods. Naturally, a hungry colony cannot be a dumping ground for goods.

Therefore, in areas colonized by Britain, France and other countries, although there is no mercy for local oppression, the bullying of local people is never soft. However, the local population has rarely decreased, and some are still increasing. This is also why although countries such as Britain and France have been emigrating, except for sparsely populated areas, British and French immigrants rarely become the local mainstream.

Britain tried to dump opium as a commodity to China.

However, Russia's foreign colonization is completely different from that of Britain and France. If foreign aggression and expansion, Britain and France are? Money? In this case, then, Russia tries to get money, land and people. Russia has never been far away from its native colony in the world. Russia's foreign aggression and expansion has always been based on its own territory, constantly attacking everywhere and expanding its territory.

Russia's foreign colonial expansion is also a real colonization. Because every time Russia occupies a place, the first thing it does is to destroy the local culture, assimilate the local people, and even directly expel the aborigines or even physically destroy them. At the same time, they immigrated to the local area in large numbers, making Slavs become the local mainstream nation. In short, Russia tried every means to completely annex the occupied area.

Russia invaded and expanded everywhere.

So the area invaded by Russia can't even be called a Russian colony, because Russia operates completely according to local standards. The local aborigines were either assimilated or slaughtered. Even if it exists by luck, it has become a local minority with no right to speak.

There are countless examples of this. For example, hundreds of thousands of China people who used to live here have disappeared today after the Russian invaded and occupied more than 6,543.8+0.6 million square kilometers of land in the northeast and northwest of China. Naturally, they didn't just disappear, but Russia tried every means to drive them away and even killed them.

Russian aggression against China

There is also Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave on the Baltic Sea, a famous tourist attraction, which originally belonged to Germany during World War II. After the Soviet occupation, all Germans living in this area were expelled, and many of them moved to Slavs. Therefore, even though the Soviet Union has disintegrated, this enclave is still firmly controlled by Russia.

Therefore, after World War II, Russia did not lose most of its colonies like Britain and France. In the final analysis, the reason is that Russia regards the occupied area as a local business in the process of aggression, and at the same time, in the process of business, the means are cruel enough, cruel enough and thorough enough. In the final analysis, colonial resistance and even independence need local people to carry out. Without the local people, there would naturally be no resistance.