Armory saga

Julia Latynina: On the archetypal features of a nuclear warhead

The military and civilizational lag of one nation from another entails two types of reaction. In one case, the nation rethinks itself and abandons those cultural customs and social structures that have come to a dead end. She carries out work on errors and can easily surpass teachers.

In another case, backwardness is compensated by fantasies about the spiritual superiority and the presence of an extraordinary weapon, which will dispel enemies, like a burning straw, and will provide the chosen people with dominance.

Such fantasies grow, intensify and capture the imagination of the nation, until, alas, they do not lead to a real war, which ends not at all as the prophets promised.

Jewish war

One of these wars is well known to us by Josephus Flavia. This is the Jewish war, begun in the 66th AD The Wonders from the Fourth Sect against the Romans.

The Romans at that time possessed invincible military technologies, but the wizards of the Fourth Sect were convinced that their technology was much cooler. They assured the population that they could send a drought and a flood to the Romans and hit the enemy with fire from their lips.

In short, they assured that they had climatic, bacteriological and laser weapons.

This is how the miraculous owners of this weapon “Revelation of John the Theologian” describes: “They have the power to shut up water so that it does not rain on the ground throughout their days of prophecy, and have power over the waters, turn them into the bloodstream, and hit the earth with all kinds as soon as they want to ... and if someone wants to offend them, then the fire will come out of their mouths and set out their enemies; If anyone wants to offend them, he should be killed ”(Rev. 11, 5-6).

The other - 3 sides - also describes the consequences of the use of such strategic weapons. This is a strategic weapon and there is a Messiah. Without exaggeration, it can be said that the tactical and technical characteristics of the Messiah in 3 Ezra are not inferior to the TTX of the hypersonic ARC “Kinjal”, the combat blocks of the Sarmat missiles that are not analogues and the planning winging blocks of the Avangard missile system, capable of flying in dense atmospheres at the intercontinental range at the hypersonum speed, exceeding the number of Mach by more than 20 times.

The presentation of the Battle of the Messiah with Roman troops in 3 Ezra looks like this: “He, when he saw the aspiration of the walking set, did not raise his hands, he did not hold a spear and no military weapons; But only, as I saw, he emitted from his lips, as it were, a breath of fire and from his lips - as if the breath of flame and let out sparks and storms from his tongue, and all this mixed together: both the breath of fire and the breath of the flame and a strong storm. And he rapidly attacked this set that he prepared to fight, and burned everyone, so that nothing was visible from countless sets, except for the ashes, and there was only a smell from smoke; I saw this, and was afraid (3 Ezra, 13, 9-11). ”

It is easy to notice from these texts that the Messiah is in its pure form of a hypersonic planning nuclear ammunition, striking from the heaven of the enemy horde. That is how he is described in the "Book of the War of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness." In it, the Messiah comes with the army of angels in the clouds. “The brave [warriors] from the troops of the spirits in our ranks, and the hero of the war with our community, and the army of his spirits with our foot and horse. They are like clouds, like clouds of dew covering the ground, like rain rain irrigating everything that grows on the ground ”( cit. Geeza Vermes, The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls ).

As we know from the story, the Jews' idea of ​​the presence of a climatic, bacteriological and strategic nuclear weapons in the form of the Messiah really prompted them to start a war against the Romans in the 66th g. However, their ideas about the TTX of the Messiah were exaggerated.

No less impressive Wunderwaffe was possessed by Chinese troops during an opium war, which erupted in 1839-1860.

The opium war was a monstrous shame for the Chinese. In its course of 3 (three) English battleships, 8 frigates and 14 boats, together with several thousand marine infantrymen, defeated two thousand thousand Chinese troops.

How could this happen?

For three reasons.

Firstly, the Chinese military leaders invariably reported to the emperor about their incredible, amazing victories over the barbarians. In the very first days of the war, the emperor received from the Canton military official Lee Zesyuya a report that the Chinese ninja burned 36 (!) Enemy ships and killed countless long monkeys. “Joy overflows me,” the emperor said red ink in the fields of this report. As the British troops were successful, the reports about the victories grew and grew, and at the end of the war, the British emperor was already killed by millions ( Julia Lovell, The Opium War, p. 117. ).

Secondly, instead of the extermination of the British, Chinese military leaders invariably engaged in the extermination of their own population. The behavior of the Manchu military leader Hhai Lin, the commandant of the British besieged by the town of Zhenjiang, was typical. During the siege, High Lin discovered that the town "contains no one but traitors." This happy discovery allowed his soldiers, instead of fighting the British, to engage in the genocide of local residents. The Manchus killed any Chinese, including women and children who met them in the way, and robbed them at home. This was all the more necessary that High Lin did not take care of the supplies of food and fuel, and his soldiers, in the breaks between the robberies, ate raw eggplants. Only the British saved the city. When they realized what was happening, the English commander ordered the attack, and refused artillery preparation to minimize the victims among the population exterminated by his own “defenders” ( Lovell, p. 217 ).

However, the most important factor in the shameful loss was the unchanging confidence of the Chinese chiefs in the presence of the Celestial Superhole.

Chinese military leaders set countless experiments with Wundewaffe. One planned to burn British ships with the help of monkeys, to the tails of which burning Packla was tied. Another - with the help of wizards who can walk underwater. The nephew of Emperor Iidzhin (who began his military campaign with the announcement of the competition for the most elegant and exciting announcement of the victory over the barbarians) resorted to a mighty remedy: he threw the skull of the tiger into the dragon pond to encourage the dragon sleeping there and attack the British battleships: “Great success is inevitable,” the emperor incorporated in the fields of his report (the emperor. Lovell, p.

But the most brilliant experiment was put in 1841 by the military leader Jan Fan, who defended the canton. Quickly determining the essence of the problem-namely, that the fantastic accuracy of the English guns is due to witchcraft-he immediately found a way to fight with his misfortune. Pots with female urine were collected throughout Canton. The pots were hoisted on wooden rafts, and the soldiers of Jan Fan sailed on the offensive along the pearl river, pushing these powerful means of counteraction in front of them. Unfortunately, the result did not live up to the expectations that Jan Fan had on the superweapon invented by him.

Second War with Matabel

Another excellent example of the use of superweapon is the so -called The second war with Matabel, which took place in 1896-1897. On the territory of the current Zimbabwe.

Historically, Sean tribes lived in Zimbabwe. They have long been in contact with European and Arab civilizations and even created several kingdoms, the last of which was eloquently called the “Kingdom of Rosvi”, i.e. The kingdom of the destroyers.

All these kingdoms were very simple. Their ruler traded with Europeans, and with the earned money was acquired by a harem and the army. What did he trade? The main export product of the country is i.e. slaves.

In 1807, the British declared the slave trade in a crime, and in 1834 they banned slavery throughout the British Empire. The export of the Kingdom of Rosvi was undermined, and it died. In addition, at that time, a new terrible enemy appeared on the lands belonging to Sean.

This enemy was not white. These were the tribes of Ndelle, or Matabelle, led by the king of Msilikazi, and then his successor and son Lobengula.

Matabel practiced the policy of the so -called Mfekan.

Mfekan was, simply put, genocide. Under Mfekan, the entire adult male population in the conquered territory was cut out, the children became slaves, and women with concubines.

In total, according to various estimates, 2 million people were cut out by Mzilicazi and Lobengul - a huge number, given that we are talking about loosely populated areas. The British never engaged in such massacres. The policy of the total genocide on the lands of Zimbabwe was carried out only by one type of aggressor - Matabel.

When the Europeans ousted Matabel from the future South Africa, they settled in Zimbabwe. By the 1880s, the kingdom of King Lobengula, with the capital in Bulavayo, was a primitive totalitarian state. It was very simple. King Lobengula had 80 thousand troops, of which 20 thousand were armed with European guns. This army either collected a tribute from Sean, or, if someone refused, destroyed. The idea that the state exists for something else, except in order to collect tribute, to arrange a harem of the king and destroy everything that moves, it never occurred to the good king Lobengule. Genocide was a sacred duty of the kings of Matabel.

Soon, however, the king of Lobengul made a mistake. He gave British Cecil Rogs a concession on mines, and Rhodes received permission from the British Empire to master these lands with the help of a private company.

At this time, the entire colonial expansion of the British was built that it was not the expansion of the state. It was the expansion of private companies. And Cecil Rogs's private company was armed with another thing that a private person invented - Maxim's machine gun. The Maxim machine gun at first was not adopted by the state armies, even the British. It was a too bold concept for them. The first one who took the Maxim machine gun for use was Cecil Rhodes. And the first place where it was applied is in the war against Matabel.

In 1893, immediately after the first British settlers appeared on the territory of the future Rhodesia, several leaders of Sean refused to pay the king Lobengule: they stated that they were now protected by the whites.

Lobengula immediately sent warriors against the rebels, who were supposed to cut them under the root. In response, the wicked white said they would not allow Matabel to cut Sean. A skirmish occurred, 40 Matabel was killed. The rest fled.

Taking advantage of this, the South African company sent private troops in the amount of 700 people under the command of Major Patrick Forbes to take Bulavoyo.

Lobengula, I recall, had 80 thousand troops. Almost the situation was such that every young Matabel, if he did not want to be a slave, had to enter these troops, which guarded the king and his harem. 20 thousand of them were armed with European guns.

But 700 Europeans had 5 (five) Maxim machine guns, and the case ended with the complete defeat of the Royal Army. Forbes died four people, and Matabel had 2.5 thousand lobster fled, burned all his arsenal and belongings, and Bulavayo became the capital of the company.

After this humiliating defeat, Matabel, of course, dreamed of revenge. The opportunity was provided in 1896, when Matabel had a new spiritual leader - Mlimo.

Mlimo was a living god, possessing an extraordinary force. Among other things, he could neutralize the most important weapon of the whites - the Maxim machine gun. He promised that after the magical dances of the whites bullets he would turn into water, and shells - into eggshells.

Mlimo promised that the destruction of the white settlers would end the drought in which they were to blame, and, in addition, would lead to the resurrection and second coming of the good king of Lobengula.

Immediately after the ceremony of the large dance, which made them invulnerable, the rebels began to cut white settlers. Within a week, 217 whites were cut together with women and children.

Soon Matabel was besieged by Bulavoyo. There were at least 10 thousand of them, and they were opposed by a miserable bunch of whites, who had nothing - neither provisions, nor reserves of weapons, nor reinforcements. However, Matabel made two mistakes. Firstly, they forgot to cut the telegraph wires connecting Bulavoyo with a dejection (most likely, they did not know what it was). Secondly, their confidence that whites bullets would turn into water was somewhat shaken during the war, and, despite the overwhelming numerical superiority, the advancing were in no hurry to attack Bulavaio.

As a result, the siege was removed from the city, and soon two Englishmen, Bernam and Armstrong, learned the exact place and date of the future dance of Mlimo. They made their way into the cave, where a demonstration of superweapon was supposed to be performed, and, barely Mlimo began his dance of invulnerability, shot him.

The theme of wonderful weapons and powerful defense means, with which the elected people will defeat Velial who opposing him, as we see, is archetypal.

Another typical example. At one time, the Messiah of the American Indians Vovok, the founder of the Dance of Spirits, came out against Mlimo against the whites. In 1889, he stated that those who participate in the dance of spirits will be invulnerable to bullets. The dance of the spirits ended after the massacre at Wunded-no, during which it turned out that the adherents of Vovoki were still not as invulnerable as it seemed to them.

A little earlier, Vovoki, in 1881, in Sudan, an uprising against the British was raised by Mohammed Ahmad Bin Abdallah, also known as Mahdi, i.e. The same deliverer who should come in front of the Judgment Day. The invulnerable warriors of Mahdi, who participated in the Judgment Day war, really managed to make a large massacre and kill the English troops, led by General Gordon. However, after 14 years, the troops, led by General Kitsener during the battle of Omdurman, completely defeated the Mahdists that surpass them, having lost 48 (forty -eight) people against twelve thousand murdered Mahdists. This was the second large -scale case of using the Maxim machine gun.

The Chinese Imetani also possessed super -armed, who raised the uprising against the Europeans in 1899. Their leaders also promised invulnerability from bullets and said that at night they fly over enemy cities London and Paris, having saturate the plague on them. The Europeans did not know about the wonderful super -armed for their eight and exterminated them without difficulty.

In 1904, the Altai shaman of even Chelpanov announced the coming of the White Burkhan. Chelpanov gathered the Altai in the Valley of the Terenga River, and his fourteen -year -old daughter was retired every day to the neighboring mountain for a conversation with white Burkhan. Unfortunately, for the Altai, at that time Russian troops appeared in the Valley of the Terenga River, and the White Burkhan ended on this.

It is not surprising that the leader of the rapidly archaizing country promises his people the same as Vovok and Mlimo. Do not be impressed with technical jargon and cartoons accompanying the presentation. All these “hypersonic planning elements” and miraculous warheads are nothing more than a new edition of the nuclear messiah, which can hit the enemy from the mouth.

It is only a pity that Russia, which at the end of the XIX century. It was a great civilization that opposed the local shamans with their white Burkhan, now herself turned into the seekers of the White Burkhan.

In the history of mankind, you are not so often observing such a regression. Let's hope that it will be short -term and that Russia will sooner or later follow the way of China, which no longer invents pots in urine, but studies and surpasses teachers.