six months six days He died last Tuesday, August 30, at the age of 91, after the start of the invasion of Ukraine launched by the Russian army, Mikhail Gorbachevlast General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and head of state who renounced control of the state 290 million people. A grand farewell to the tsar’s notorious willful absence Vladimir PutinThe n, which was not given a state funeral, took place yesterday in Moscow. House of Unions.
Putin was released despite information from US intelligence services and repeated warnings from US President Joe Biden. a wara, given that his plan was a military parade, followed by a military parade that a puppet would occupy, with no devastating consequences in his calculations Mariyinsky Palace On the banks of the Dnieper River in Kiev. Their trucks and tankers could not cross the border from the first weeks. sixty kilometers This separated them from the Ukrainian capital.
Obituaries are plentiful, mostly laudatory. gorbyAs affectionately called by the politicians who negotiated with him, reunification Germany in 1990, and one after another, who promised to stop any attempt to expand the country North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the eight-member and three-observer USSR-led alliance formed in 1955 and dissolved in 1991, is the only surviving military alliance after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact.
This purge, promises and commitments by Western politicians and soldiers that NATO will not cease to be a defense organization and become an aggressor, Warsaw Pact o The Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance had ceased to exist.
Robert Gates, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with President George HW Bush in 1991 and 1993, exposed the dual game of Western leaders in July 2000 after Poland’s 1999 reunification. Hungary Y Czech Republic to NATO.
“They Convinced”
Gates made an impromptu critique in three lines in a lecture he gave on July 14, 2000 at the Miller Center for Oral History at the University of Virginia. said it all. Former CIA Director “Attacks Those Who Force NATO’s Eastward Expansion” [de Europa] When Gorbachev and others are persuaded that this will not happen”.
In the second enlargement in 2004, NATO included Bulgaria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania. In third place came Albania and Croatia. And in early 2017 Montenegro joined amid massive protests against its entry.
To be precise, in December 2017, the United States National Security Archive (NSA for North America), a nonprofit based at George Washington University in Washington DC, confidential documents From Gorbachev’s talks with prominent Western leaders and presidents in 1990 file It was published under the title “NATO Enlargement: What Gorbachev Heard”. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early#_edn1.
The declassified documents reflect the dialogue and negotiations that Gorbachev and his team’s ministers had with the Americans. George H. W. Bush, James Baker Y Robert Gates; Germans Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Helmut Kohl, Manfred Worner, French President François Mitterrand and England Margaret Thatcher, Douglas Hurd Y John Major.
According to the NSA account, based on unclassified documents (see reproduction), “James Baker used the ` formula not once, but three times.not an inch east [de Europa]’ At the meeting with Gorbachev on February 9, 1990. Baker agreed with Gorbachev’s statement on the need to ensure that ‘NATO enlargement is unacceptable’. US Secretary of State to Gorbachev, “neither the president [Bush padre] nor am I trying to extract the ultimate one-sided advantages Americans understand that it is important to have guarantees “not only for the Soviet Union but also for other European countries” if the United States continues its presence in Germany within the framework of NATO, not an inch existing NATO military mandate will expand eastward [de Europa]´”.
Margaret Thatcher Iron Lady, He received Gorbachev in London on June 8, 1990. As he explained to the Soviet leader, at the beginning of July, NATO would support him with a statement of the military alliance’s new orientation towards a more political and less threatening bloc. military opinion.
We must find ways to give. Soviet Union confidence that their safety will be guaranteed… CSCE [Conferencia de Seguridad y Cooperación Europea] could be an umbrella for all this and for the forum that fully involved the Soviet Union in the discussions on the future of Europe”. British Prime Minister John Major later appointed Thatcher. “None of this will happen.” The Soviet Minister of Defense replied to the Marshal. Dmitry YazovWhen asked about Eastern European countries interested in joining NATO in March 1991. “We’re not talking about strengthening the Atlantic alliance.”
Helmut Kohl, François Mitterrand, all devoted themselves to the formula “not an inch” towards Eastern Europe. NATO Secretary General Manfred Wörner told Soviet parliamentarians in Brussels in July 1991: “We must not allow the USSR to be isolated. The NATO Council and I are against enlargement.”
This, then, was the context in which Mikhail Gorbachev, against his will, declared the end of the Soviet Union in December 1991, after the failed coup of August 1991—a failure Boris Yeltsin took advantage of as president of the Russian Federation. NATO’s eastward expansion and thus there would be no threat for your safety.
Gorbachev, winner of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize, made a statement while presenting a new memory in October 2019. “NATO’s decision to enlarge after years has shaken the confidence built after the end of the cold war and forced Russia to draw conclusions,” he said.
Putin has signed unavailable At Gorbachev’s funeral this Saturday in Moscow.
Today, by order of Putin, the portrait of Tsar Nicholas I, the instigator of the Crimean War (the kingdom of Greece against the Russian empire 1853-1856) hangs in the entrance room of the presidential office in the Kremlin. Putin, in the name of Great Russia, wants the complete destruction of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people.