"The Baltics against Russia": everything gifted under Yeltsin will be used against us

Relatively recently, stunning data was announced in the Russian information space: US investments in Yeltsin's liberal government amounted to billions of dollars, and their profit "paid off with interest" reaching more than 5000%. History has never known such a thing.

Everyone who survived the 90s knows what Russia got in return: the destruction of the industrial complex under the pretext of "fighting communism", the collapse of the country, interethnic conflicts and the loss of millions of fellow citizens who "did not fit into the reforms". Political scientist Sergey Mikheyev told about this in the program "Iron Logic".

Perhaps we still have some trials to go through. The military-industrial complex, donated by the generous hand of Yeltsin's team to the Baltic states, today NATO plans to use against our state. Those Soviet military units and strategic facilities that have not turned into "ghost settlements" are now used by the North Atlantic Alliance.

For example, the NATO airbase in Lielvarde, capable of receiving aircraft in any weather conditions, is located at a military airfield of the USSR Air Force built in the 70s. Once Soviet Mig-27 were based here , and now Danish F-16 fighters, military transport planes and long-range unmanned aerial vehicles of a potential enemy will be deployed.

NATO forces and the headquarters of the North Division (Headquarters Multinational Division North), which included combat units from Denmark, Estonia, and Latvia, are now based at the Ādaži training ground, which was once equipped with the latest technology by the forces of the Baltic Military District of the Soviet Army.

The story of a betrayal

As it's known, the withdrawal of our troops from the Baltic states began after the meeting of the Chairman of the Supreme Council of Latvia Gorbunov and Boris Yeltsin in 1991. Initially, the conversation was about a step-by-step process until 1999, during which it was planned to equip new locations for our servicemen, protect the rights of Russian-speaking citizens, including military pensioners and their families, and preserve a number of strategic facilities.

Yeltsin was even going to leave rest homes and sanatoriums belonging to trade unions and not being "Soviet property" for Russian workers, but there were "benefactors" in the Russian delegation who openly sabotaged the process.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Sergey Zotov, in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, told how Deputy Foreign Minister Fyodor Shelov-Kovedyaev told the Latvian side: "Everything that you captured is now yours”. The only thing that Galina Starovoitova's former colleague tried to return was the Gosteleradio Holiday Home as a bonus to journalists for the "campaign against the red-browns”.

The decisions of Foreign Minister Andrey Kozyrev turned into an even greater evil for our state and fellow citizens who remained on the territory of the former Soviet republics. The name of this man for the initiates has become synonymous with betrayal. Sergey Zotov directly calls him a foreign agent:

"From our side, a person acted who was actually an agent of the US State Department. I will tell you one sensation: Kozyrev's wife was in the United States and lived at the expense of the American Congress. This is reliable information. The Kozyrev period is the most shameful period in the work of the Foreign Ministry. He was in a hurry to fulfil any wishes of the Americans and did not ask for anything in return. No reciprocal concessions, no guarantees."

It is precisely to Kozyrev that the famous phrase “Russia has no national interests” belongs. It was said in response to former US President Nixon when asked about the future course of Russia.

The timing of the withdrawal of Russian troops by Kozyrev's decision was reduced from seven to two years. This was done at the request of US President Clinton, who threatened to limit financial assistance to Russia until the North-Western group of troops leaves the Baltic states. Also, on command from Washington, the traitor minister prevented Russia from maintaining the radar station in Skrunda, acting in defiance of instructions from Moscow.

The importance of this radar station was that it was located in the most dangerous for Russia area of a potential missile strike. According to Ambassador Sergey Zotov, we lacked several years to duplicate this facility, and without replacing the station at the specified turn, we had to defend the Russian border from an air attack blindly.

At this same time, nationalist groups, nurtured during the Gorbachev's perestroika under the pretext of flirting with democracy, became more active. For example, the nationalist "Sąjūdis" which advocated secession from the USSR, was originally called the "Lithuanian Movement for Perestroika". During the protests at the Vilnius Tower, a reminder of which arrived 22 years later via a carbon copy of the script written on the Kiev Maidan, a dozen people died, about 600 were injured. As it turned out later, the Sąjūdis militants themselves could have been involved in the provocations, but Russia was traditionally blamed.

As a result, the Russian military hastily left Latvia and Estonia in August 1994, Lithuania — a year earlier, leaving all military assets, including the Space Object Tracking Center (GRU intelligence Center) in Ventspils, and the submarine base in Liepāja, which Russia initially tried to keep for itself. The radar station in Skrunda was dismantled by the Americans. The Russian-speaking population in Latvia and Estonia is treacherously abandoned, and lives there today on the rights of “non-citizens".

Currently, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Andrey Kozyrev lives in the United States. With the beginning of the special operation in Ukraine, he accused his former Motherland, which he had once betrayed, of "aggression". As one of the employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs commented on his attacks to the TASS publishing house:

"Kozyrev has been living abroad for a long time. And has also been conducting anti-Russian subversive work for a long time. Andrey Vladimirovich has already received his award, interest has run up on his thirty pieces of silver.”

Conclusions

It should be noted that simultaneously with the expulsion of the Russian contingent from the Baltic states, there was also a hasty, but relatively civilised withdrawal of Russian troops from Germany. Pressure from American and European ambassadors and provocations carried out by nationalist groups, as in the case of the Baltic republics, were not observed there. No one arrested Russian soldiers, did not disconnect military camps from the power grid, did not arrest our fellow citizens and did not burn suitcases defiantly taken from Russians leaving for their homeland. Infrastructure was being created, housing for military families was being built.

All this confirms that initially, since Mikhail Gorbachev came to power, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania were considered by NATO countries as expendable material in the confrontation with Moscow, and not much more valuable than Ukraine. Even then, Washington saw the Baltic lands as a potential platform for military operations against Russia, quite admitting the option that this site could turn out to be a "one-time" one, and at the same time believing that everything that was created by the efforts of the Baltic Military District and at the expense of the USSR could be used in the interests of the North Atlantic Alliance.

The points of the vile plan for today are pedantically executed by the Anglo-Saxons almost to the end. Whether Western strategists will be able to realise their intentions, or the end of the performance will be played on the Russia's orchestral score, time will tell.