As we all know, history is one of the hot areas of online discussion. Many historical figures have been nicknamed on the Internet, such as Wang Mang, the "Crosser", Louis XVI, the "Father of the Nation", "Su Xunzong" Brezhnev, and so on. Interestingly, the famous British Prime Minister Winston Churchill Churchill has a very strange nickname on the Internet - "The Father of the Nation of the Soviet Union". So how did this nickname come about?
On July 28, 1914, Archduke Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, was assassinated in Sarajevo, and World War I broke out, with the Allied camp led by Britain, France, and Russia fighting the Allied camp led by Germany and Austria-Hungary. Geographically, the Allied camp surrounded the Allied camp from east to west, but was also divided into east and west by the Allied camp.
Russia's comprehensive national strength is the weakest of the three leading countries of the Allies, and it cannot fight a world war on its own, and must rely on the assistance of Britain and France to maintain it. However, since the Allied camp was geographically divided into east and west by the Allied camp, Britain and France could only aid Russia by sea. And there was one country that held the lifeline of shipping from Britain and France to Russia, and that was the Ottoman Empire.
The Ottoman Empire was originally inclined to Britain and France, and before the outbreak of World War I, it spent a lot of money to order two British-made battleships, which was a "surrender" to the Entente. However, there was disagreement among the British elite over how to deal with the Ottoman Empire, with one faction believing that it would be better to defeat the Ottoman Empire once and for all rather than co-opt it. The representative of this faction was Churchill, who was then the Minister of the Navy.
So Churchill arbitrarily transferred the two battleships ordered by the Ottoman Empire to the British Navy, and refused to return the deposit paid by the Ottoman Empire. Churchill's move was to force the Ottoman Empire to join the Allies, so that the British would be famous for crushing the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire, angered by Churchill, did indeed join the Allies, and the plot seemed to follow Churchill's script.
However, the next plot was much more unexpected than Churchill. Relying on German support, the Ottoman Empire was not only not defeated by the British, but also severely damaged the British
The Mediterranean Fleet, which led to the loss of sea supremacy in the Eastern Mediterranean by Britain and France. So the Ottoman Empire cut off Russia's sea lifeline to receive Anglo-French aid, and Russia, which was struggling with Germany and Austria, had to go to war with the Ottoman Empire.
It can be said that Churchill's act of pushing against the Ottoman Empire led to the loss of overseas aid to Russia and the sudden deterioration of the war situation. Under the internal and external difficulties, the social contradictions in Russia intensified in an all-round way, and the "February Revolution" and the "October Revolution" broke out one after another, which eventually led to the birth of the Soviet Union. Because of this, some people on the Internet now jokingly call Churchill the "Father of the Soviet Union".