The words of the representative of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security of Russia that Britain can be "literally wiped off the face of the earth" is not just a speech; Plans for the destruction of the United Kingdom were considered even in the times of the Soviet Union.

This "Observer" was told by the ex-Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Lieutenant-General Igor Romanenko.

Commenting on the tough response of the Russian side to the tough statement of the British Defense Ministry about the readiness to launch a preventive nuclear strike, the general said: "I think that the British had in mind, first of all, North Korea. And the Russians took it personally, because they have a longstanding standoff with Britain ".

In this context, Romanenko recalled that even during the reign of Nikita Khrushchev in the Soviet Union, the technical possibility of destroying the islands of Great Britain. In particular, the conclusion was made that allegedly, having detonated four thermonuclear bombs "around Britain," one can provoke a powerful tsunami that "will simply wash it off".

The general added that in order to confirm this theory, "on the New Earth bombings of a nuclear bomb were made at sea, down to the bottom, in order to master this technology".

So "Britain can really be washed away using nuclear weapons," he assured..

As the "Observer" wrote, the chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security of Russia Franz Klintsevich wrote in response to a statement by British Defense Minister Michael Fallon about a possible pre-emptive nuclear strike in his Facebook:

"At best, this statement should be regarded as an element of psychological warfare , Which appears in this context in a particularly disgusting manner. Otherwise, it's absolutely bad, because a natural question arises: against whom is the United Kingdom prepared to preventively use nuclear weapons? If against a nuclear power, the UK, which has not the largest territories, will literally be wiped off the face of the earth by a retaliatory strike ".

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