Conspiracy Theories On Alaska- Part One

In light of the deteriorating political relations between Moscow and Washington and initiating the petition on the website of the White House for the secession of Alaska from the United States and joining Russia, in the Russian was launched new wave of public discussions, rumors and speculation about the status of this once the Russian territory.

According to one of the most popular news portal in Russia, theory that Alaska was never sold to the US, but was rented for use for a period of 99 or 100 years, dating back to the Soviet era, and that all original copies of the lease agreement Lenin gave the Americans for short-term political support.

This conspiracy theory includes the fact that $ 7.6 million for the lease has never paid the Russians, although Alaska officially became a US territory 147 years ago.

Allegedly, after the October Revolution and the decision of the West that it will not sell weapons to the Red Army, Lenin handed over original documents to Washington in exchange for the lifting of the ban on weapons sales.

Later Stalin during the negotiations with the Western allies at Yalta in 1945 reportedly stated that the Soviet Union would not ask to return Alaska from the United States, which caused surprise of Americans who believed that the matter had already been resolved with Lenin.

The period of 100 years expired in 1967 when the Soviet Union was led by Leonid Brezhnev, who, according to proponents of the unofficial versions had the possibility to challenge the decisions of Lenin and Stalin as invalid because it was never confirmed by the Supreme Soviet.

However, at the height of the Cold War, Brezhnev did not raise the return of Alaska, and the Soviet Union had not even been paid in accordance with the contract, because the ship with gold, traveling to Russia, mysteriously burned and sank.

In the years after the Civil War in America (1861-1865) and the Crimean War (1853-1856) the US and Russia have cultivated an alliance against the British and had close relations, so they secretly signed a contract for the sale of Alaska.

The London Times wrote about the mysterious sympathy between the two countries.

For an agreement to sell Alaska knew only a narrow circle of people around the Russian Emperor Alexander II, including the Russian ambassador in Washington, Edward Stoke, who had earlier warned St. Petersburg of the dangers of mass immigration of Mormons and the Russian colonization of the country.