Soviet control over Ethiopia fulfilled a century-old Tsarist ambition
Evidence
The long-cherished Tsarist ambition of making Ethiopia a Russian protectorate, prominent at the end of the nineteenth century when Russian arms and advisers had facilitated Menelik’s conquests, and romanticized in the Ethiopian origins ascribed to the national poet Pushkin, had at last borne fruit. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 576
Categorization
- QUESTION: Worth verifying the claim about Pushkin’s ascribed Ethiopian origins - a striking detail.
- XREF: Connects to earlier chapters on Menelik’s conquests and Ethiopian expansion into Somali lands in the nineteenth century. — connects to: Soviet dominance over Ethiopia fulfilled a long-repressed Tsarist protectorate ambition