introduction
"Augmentation Ofe": "Dragon swims in shallow water and is played by shrimp, and tigers fall in Pingyang and are bullied by dogs." After a century of catastrophe in modern China, it finally understood the immutable truth that "if you are backward, you will be beaten." The weak and incompetent Qing government, under the strong tilt of the Western powers, brazenly exchanged the country's great mountains and rivers for its own survival, causing the biggest crisis of the Chinese nation in a thousand years.
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At that time, as a neighbor of China, Tsarist Russia naturally did not give up the opportunity to grab benefits from China and forcibly occupied many of China's territories when China's strength was weak. According to post-war statistics, Tsarist Russia has encroached on the most Chinese land among all countries. At that time, China, which had an empty treasury and weak military strength, was already in crisis and embattled, and Tsarist Russia was seizing this opportunity and signing a series of unequal treaties with the Qing government by force and coercion, taking China's 1.5 million square kilometers of land into its own pocket.
Lenin once rebuked the Tsarist government for illegally occupying Chinese land, pointing out that when the Tsar was in China, he always wanted "empty gloves and white wolves" and hoped to achieve the most fruitful results without paying the price of war. Always taking advantage of the most complicated situation in China to stir up water, blackmail China's territory in an almost crazy way, and try to fish in muddy waters. And such an act is also the ugliest and most unbearable act of imperialism.
To this end, the Soviet government made it clear twice around 1919 and 1920 that it would return the land that the Tsar had plundered from the Qing government. In fact, these two statements are not from the heart, the Soviet Union said this is just to alleviate its own embarrassing form of isolation in the world, and to save its image in the world, so the Russian government will throw such a fog bomb, in order to better win over China.
Therefore, no matter how crazy the Soviet Union was at that time, they never put their words into practical action, and China has never been able to recover the inherent territory occupied by Tsarist Russia. After Lenin's successor, Stalin, came to power, Soviet Russia was even less able to return these lands. Not only that, but Stalin also planned to continue to occupy China's land when China's national strength was weak.
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"Tour to Shanxi Village" has a saying that "the mountains and rivers are doubtful and there is no way, and the willows are dark and the flowers are bright and another village." In fact, the world pattern was fickle, and soon the situation was reversed, and the disintegration of the Soviet Union directly shattered Su Dalin's wishful thinking. In the face of the already fragmented Soviet Union, China showed the style of a great power and did not take advantage of the danger of others to demand that the land originally occupied by Tsarist Russia be reclaimed. Supposedly, 29 years ago, when the Soviet Union collapsed, it was a good time for China to take back its occupied territories, but why didn't we do so? Experts point out that there is actually another hidden plot.
First, from the perspective of national strength, although the Soviet Union collapsed, the overall strength of Russia that remained did not decline much, and it is still one of the most militarily powerful countries in the world. Russia, which has inherited most of the Soviet Union's legacy, not only has the nuclear warheads left over from the Soviet era, but also a variety of advanced weapons and equipment. On the other hand, China, which had just come out of the war at that time, had weak national strength, insufficient military strength, and inferior weapons and equipment, and if it really used force, it would certainly not be Russia's opponent. At that time, many of China's large-scale equipment and weapons and equipment still needed to be imported from the Russian side, and the two sides must also maintain relatively good mutual relations.
The second reason is geographical location and demographic factors. After encroaching on our land, Tsarist Russia, in order to further control it, drove out all the Chinese who had originally lived in these places, and at the same time constantly let the Russians move here. Over time, these territories, which originally belonged to our country, have completely become places where the Russians live and live, so it is very difficult for our country to really take back and govern under such circumstances.
The third reason is that it is limited by the treaty, it should be known that the Tsarist Russian Empire was signed with the Qing government at the beginning, and after the "October Revolution" the Soviet Russia was established, which basically inherited the territory of the Tsarist Russia, and later the Soviet Russia merged with other countries to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which is the well-known Soviet Union. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, not all of those lands were inherited by Russia, so if they wanted to be recovered, they would have to negotiate with many countries at the same time, which was very time-consuming and energy-consuming, and it was not conducive to our country's taoguang and obscurity.
epilogue
Of course, in addition to these, there is a more important reason | - after the founding of New China, China has always adhered to the path of peaceful development, and it will never use force to reclaim its territory and destroy the hard-won peaceful life. Therefore, taking into account all the considerations, China did not take the opportunity to return to the land that was originally occupied by Tsarist Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Resources:
"Augmenting the Sages"
《Tour of Shanxi Village》
Chronicles of Nations: Russia