Chapter 34 genoa conference

〖Facing the huge oil reserves of the Soviet Union, Britain and the United States each made their own wishful thinking.Germany broke out halfway, disturbing the dreams of the Anglo-Americans.The United Kingdom and the United States joined forces to cooperate with Western European countries to use military and economic means to suppress Germany on the one hand, and on the other hand to form an oil cartel - the "Seven Sisters Company".Britain and the United States also conspired carefully to pave the way for Hitler to come to power. 〗 On April 16, 1922, at the Alberti Manor in Genoa, the German delegation participating in the post-war International Economic Conference dropped a blockbuster at the conference, and its shock wave reached the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.This is a political bomb.German Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau announced to the participating ministers, including Soviet Foreign Minister Chicherin, that Germany and the Soviet Union had reached a bilateral agreement. In the agreement, the Soviet Union agreed to renounce claims for war compensation from Germany, provided that Germany agreed Export of industrial technology and other matters to the USSR.

The Treaty of Rapallo, named after the small village near Genoa where Germans and Soviets were finally agreed, shocked all the delegates at the Alberti estate meeting.The news sparked an immediate panic-like reaction, especially from the Britons and French present. The Genoa Conference was convened at the urging of Britain, and its purpose was to achieve a series of strategic goals determined by Britain in Versailles in the early 1920s and after the conference.That is to say, the first is to lay the foundation for the re-establishment of the London-centered international gold standard before 1914; the second is to invite the Soviet Union to participate in the meeting, and Britain intends to use this meeting to restore the old relationship with the Soviet Union.Previously, the Soviet Union had been sidelined by the international community because the new Bolshevik government had unilaterally refused to pay all of Tsarist Russia's debts.Interestingly, the US government has not planned to participate in the Genoa meeting in any official form, which gives the UK more room to dominate the meeting.

Britain has ulterior motives in extending an olive branch to Moscow.Restoring diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union was meant to open the door to lucrative business with Russia, giving Royal Dutch Shell and other BP companies control of the war-torn Baku oil fields.Shell's Deterding sang together with British Colonial Affairs Secretary Winston Churchill. Since 1918, he has secretly provided financial support to the White Russian counter-revolutionary group. At the same time, he came to France without anyone knowing it. Having signed a lease to develop Russia's Baku oil fields signed before the Russian Revolution, he predicted that the economically isolated and war-torn Soviet regime would soon fall.

This sequence of events took place during the notorious Lockhart plot, during which Sir Robin Bruce Lockhart, the British ambassador to Moscow, was accused, along with Sidney Raleigh, of attempting to assassinate Lenin was tried in absentia and sentenced to death.This was also the time of the British and Allied landings at Archangel.Churchill's Colonial Affairs Department had long pursued a policy of supporting the disgraced government-in-exile of Boris Safinkov, former war minister of Russia's hapless Kerensky regime , is a morphine addict.Backed by Churchill and the British government, by 1920 Deterding had funneled vast sums of cash to the White Russian counter-revolutionary bloc led by Generals Rangel and Denikin, Field Marshal Kolchak, and others.Deterding established the Anglo-Caucasus company, hoping to get the right to exploit the Baku oil fields.Deterding, eager to wait, even raised funds to establish a separatist organization in Baku, which promised to grant Deterding oil exploration rights.

Over the past four years, the British government has tried its best to overthrow the nascent Bolshevik regime by using various open or secret means, but in the end it came to nothing.By 1922, Britain had to change tactics and tried to intervene in what seemed to be a more pragmatic British Soviet New Economic Policy formulated by Lenin, the "New Economic Plan" of 1921.