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About the "royal gold" of Russia in the United States

August 2, 2016
By Alexander Samsonov

Historians are still arguing about where the gold of the Russian Empire went. There is an opinion that thanks to Russian gold, the United States has become the leaders of Western civilization. Two main topics are raised. First, allegedly Russia participated as a shareholder in the establishment of the U.S. Federal Reserve System during the time of Emperor Nicholas II (the Federal Reserve Act was adopted by the U.S. Congress in the last days of 1913). They say that the Russian Empire (in some reports - the Russian tsar personally) contributed a share of the Fed's capital in gold. Secondly, the main part of the gold reserves of the International Monetary Fund when the fund was created was formed at the expense of the royal gold.

Thus, historian Sergei Zhelenkov believes that Russia and the States began to take the first steps towards rapprochement under Alexander II and Abraham Lincoln. The Civil War of the North and the South was raging in America. The southern states were supported by England and the Rothschild clan behind London. Lincoln became the number one enemy for this clan when he refused to create a private Central Bank of America and introduce the gold equivalent of the dollar. The Rothschilds controlled most of the gold and with its help a significant part of the planet. And the States could become an alternative center of the West (as it happened in the end). Then the rulers of Russia and the United States decided to create a joint Russian-American trust. In addition, St. Petersburg sent two squadrons to America - a squadron under the command of Rear Admiral Stepan Lesovsky arrived in San Francisco on November 7, 1863. Admiral Andrei Popov's Pacific Squadron also docked after her. As a result, England and France did not dare to openly intervene in the civil war in America.

Meanwhile, dozens of tons of Russian gold intended to create a Russian-American trust were transferred to a special storage facility in the mountains of Spain. The whole operation was led by an official of special assignments and a general from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a real state councilor Platon Kuskov. However, this project failed. Abraham Lincoln was killed in the theater. As a result of another assassination attempt, Alexander II also died. The gold remained in Spain.

The project was continued by Nicholas II. Zhelenkov believes that in "1904 a group of representatives of 48 states (by analogy with modernity it can be called "G-48") at a secret meeting in Paris approved the procedure for the creation of the International Financial System (IFS) and the World Money Supply Source. Also, in agreement with the leaders of other participating states of the Conference in The Hague, at the suggestion of Nicholas II, it was decided to create a League of Nations (now it is called the UN). To ensure trade relations between the countries, it was decided to create a single World Financial Center with its own currency on the basis of the League of Nations. To create the "golden pool" of the League of Nations, Russia, through the banker House of Rothschild, contributed 48.6 tons of gold stored in Spain to the "entitled capital" of the IFS. Half of it was sent to the Fort Knox storage in the United States. And half of them settled in underground storages on the island of Mallorca, which is still part of the Spanish autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. However, according to the documents signed by the parties, all gold should be stored in New York. This supply of Russian gold to the United States in 1904-1912. The Russian Empire received the rights to assets in the "golden pool" in the amount of 52 billion dollars in gold.

However, the Rothschilds outplayed both Nikolai and other participants of the G-48 conference. Having financed the election campaign of American President Woodrow Wilson, at the end of 1913 they literally forced him to transfer to their private ownership the Federal Reserve System (Fed), created instead of the World Financial System and based on the "pool" gold. Thus, according to Zhelenkov, the Fed's share of 88.8% still belongs to Russia, and the remaining 11.2% is mainly to Chinese beneficiaries under the supervision of the grandson of the last Chinese emperor of the Qing Dynasty Li Yong.

"Agreements were signed between America and Russia to transfer our gold not as a gift, but, let's say, for rent. For a period of 100 years, which expired in 2013. At the same time, the agreements specifically note the clause that the interest rate for the use of 48.6 tons of gold reserves per year is 4% per annum. That is, the Fed should have transferred 4% per year to Russia and China. But interest, I must say, has never been paid," the researcher believes.

To eliminate the threat of the Fed, the Rothschilds were financed first by the February Revolution, and then by the banking houses of the Ryabushinsky brothers, Polyakov, Rafalovich and Zhyvotovsky (Lev Trotsky's uncles). The right hand of the Rothschilds in Russia was the deputy chairman of the State Duma, Mason and cadet Nikolai Nekrasov. For the same reason, the family of the last tsar of the Romanov dynasty was liquidated.

During the period of confusion of the Civil War and the subsequent struggle for power in Soviet Russia, everyone did not have to do with the Russian gold stored in America. And the documents were safely hidden or destroyed. But closer to the end of the 1930s of the last century, the topic surfaced again. According to some data, however, not officially confirmed (the archives were almost completely destroyed under Khrushchev), Vyacheslav Molotov was supposed to speak at the meeting of the League of Nations. And inform the whole world about the U.S. debts to Russia. This would cause a grand international scandal. But the USSR was expelled from this international organization because of the war with Finland. Then World War II and the Great Patriotic War began. The United States became our ally. Stalin died (was killed) in 1953. And the topic of U.S. debts was forgotten again.

The topic of Russian gold in the United States and other countries was also raised by other researchers. Thus, this problem was studied in the most detail and deeply by the late professor, Doctor of Historical Sciences V. Sirotkin, who published a number of books on this topic (V. G. Sirotkin "Gold and real estate of Russia abroad"; "Who robbed Russia?"). In his opinion, a really significant amount of gold during the First World War was moved from the Russian Empire to the United States. Russian gold also got to Great Britain, France, Japan, Czechoslovakia and other countries.

Moreover, Sirotkin pushed us to a very important and not only economically, but also geopolitically important conclusion that we, the Russian Federation (as the successor of the Russian Empire), must demand the return of this gold or receive compensation in another way.

During the First World War, economic relations between the Russian Empire and the United States reached a much higher level compared to the previous period. This was caused by the fact that Russia's main economic partner before the war was the German Empire. Germany's role in meeting Russia's needs for machinery, equipment, vehicles, other types of mechanical engineering products and the electrical industry was especially great. After the outbreak of the war, where Berlin and St. Petersburg were enemies, it is clear that mutual trade between Russia and Germany was curtailed. France and Great Britain put the satisfaction of their own needs first. Their economies were reoriented to the production of weapons, ammunition, ammunition for their own armed forces. Therefore, Russia, due to the underdevelopment of the national industry, faced a serious problem.

The only country with a powerful economy that could help Russia was the States. These needs were significantly different from those in peacetime. Russia primarily considered the United States as a supplier of weapons, ammunition, military equipment and ammunition, machine tools and equipment for military factories, vehicles. The tsarist government placed orders for weapons and equipment in the United States for a total amount of 1 billion 237 million rubles. As a result, American imports to the Russian Empire increased 17 times compared to pre-war times. Already in 1916 The United States took the first place in Russia's foreign trade, pushing England and France. If in 1913 the share of the United States in Russia's imports was 13.2%, in 1916 it already exceeded 60%.

According to Sirotkin, during the First World War (or even on the eve of the war) a large batch of gold came from Russia to America. Emperor Nicholas II contributed this gold as a share of the share capital of the U.S. Federal Reserve System, the decision to create which was made by the Congress and the President of the United States at the end of 1913. However, at present there is no documentary evidence that would confirm the version of the "golden contribution" of Nicholas II to the capital of a private "stoll" called the Fed.

Skeptics note that at the time of the First World War, the United States was not yet the financial center of London. And all transactions related to the purchase of currency had to be carried out through the UK. To pay for its military purchases abroad, Russia needed currency, it received it from Great Britain. It was there that gold from the state reserve was sent in the end. We sent the loans received from the UK to the United States. Therefore, gold, even if it was sent for these purposes, should be sought in London.

In addition, if the fact of the transfer of gold took place, it would hardly have been missed by the young government of Soviet Russia, which needed additional sources of financing. However, this topic has never been raised within the framework of Soviet politics. The theme of "royal gold" in the Fed was never raised during our meetings and negotiations with the American side - the Genoa Conference of 1922, the London Economic Conference of 1933, the Bretton Woods Conference of 1944. Although the issue of "royal gold" constantly surfaced during negotiations with France and Britain.

This issue was also not raised by representatives of the "white" emigration, who very closely followed the news from Soviet Russia and what was happening with the assets of the Russian Empire abroad, as they logically saw themselves as their successors. If Tsar Nicholas II had sent gold abroad, someone from his entourage would have known about it. And since not all tsarist ministers and dignitaries died, there would certainly be people who would try to raise this issue and get to such a big deal. The motives could be very different: from personal enrichment to financing the White movement and the fight against the Bolsheviks.

However, do not forget that a lot of Russian gold and jewelry were taken abroad by the white emigrants themselves. According to some estimates, up to 1 thousand tons of noble metal. However, it was not a centralized export, but a private initiative that had nothing to do with the actions of the last Russian emperor. The story with the export of gold of the Russian Empire to the United States is also mixed with the saga with noble metal, which was taken from Kazan by Admiral Kolchak. Later it fell into the hands of the legionnaires of the Czechoslovak Corps. This gold partially fell into the hands of the Soviet government, but was partially taken out of Russia.

You can also recall the "golden outcome" already from Soviet Russia, the peak of which fell on 1919-1922. In fact, it was the smuggling export of "Russian gold" from Russia - the remnants of state reserves, as well as gold confiscated from citizens. From the Soviet side, the organizers, possibly beneficiaries, of the export of precious metal were such key figures of the party and state leadership as Trotsky and Sverdlov, who were protégés of the masters of the West and performed the task of "optimizing" (elimination) Russian civilization. Estimates of the scale of such a "golden outcome" vary greatly. According to conservative estimates, the volume of such smuggled gold exported to the United States is about 1,000 tons.

Thus, if Russia begins to pursue an independent global and financial and economic policy, we can and should bill America and the West as a whole for their already well-forgotten debts. In particular, to revive our demands on the United States and other Western countries to compensate for the damage that Russia suffered as a result of the blockade and intervention of 1918-1921. And the U.S. contribution to the organization of the blockade and intervention was decisive. Thus, at the Genoa Conference of 1922, Soviet Russia had already made such an attempt. Russia's total claims to former allies in the First World War approached 40 billion gold rubles.

Source: https://topwar.ru/98779-o-carskom-zolote-rossii-v-ssha.html