Eternal wall

Europe and the States took four years to recover. Hitler was over, Europe got out of the ruins, supported by the friendly hand of the Marshall plan; Denacification in Germany brought its democratic fruits. And here the West - both liberated and liberators - suddenly found that he had another enemy, insidious and powerful, because besides tens of millions of slaves, he also had a huge staff of overseers from the KGB and the CPSU and 1/6 of the land. This enemy was called Stalin, and on his share of prey (Eastern European countries) he arranged a concentration camp no worse than German. Soon the world will cross the gloomy Berlin wall and cuts the fatal Korean parallel, wraps the iron curtain, Churchill's Fulton speech has already sounded, and nothing will have left of the naive misconception of the war years, when the Kremlin tyrant seemed a sweet and friendly “uncle Joe”. The meeting on Elbe is over. Met and parted.

On April 4, 1949, the wall rose from the waves of the Atlantic. In contrast to the Great Chinese (Asian)-something like the Great Western Wall of the North Atlantic Treaty, designed to protect the West from the eternal aspiration of the aziopian (baptized by A. Kozyrev already in our time) to wash either the hooves of the horses or the caterpillars of the tanks "in the last last sea". On one side is a free ocean wind, on the other - a stuffy, stale air of a red desert.

There were twelve of them who came first. From huge USA to tiny Luxembourg, who did not give out to Stalin refugees. In the USSR, this block, these united hands of the West caused frantic hatred. NATO was scared of babies, lectures were given against him and brochures were produced. The USSR made a Warsaw treaty from its mute satellites and introduced to the program of military departments the study of the troops of potential opponents: USA, Germany, France, England. (In INYAZ in 1968, I personally studied the Army of France.) The Soviet dissident accused of written or oral addictions to NATO could be sure that he would receive a maximum (7 years of camps and 5 years of exile under article 70 for “anti -Soviet agitation and propaganda in order to undermine and weaken the system”).

But then the system collapsed, and it was possible to cease to be enmity, and even was conducted that Russia also joined NATO, like all decent people. And NATO took part in the salvation of Kuwait and gave everyone a chance to join Western values. However, in the Russian State Duma, S. Baburin Tupay Pro -Soviet group “Antinato” began to start with the presentation of 225 deputies. And the democrats created the Antiantinato group ("For Atlantic Dialogue"), gaining 40 deputies.

So they lived until 1999, until Primakov together with Russia turned over the Atlantic and turned away from it. After that, the neighbors went to NATO with a goose, and a great western wall stood in front of our nose again.

On April 4, NATO-now almost all of Europe plus the United States and Canada, a club for 28 Kuverts-celebrated its 60th anniversary. Here are the modest results of the activities of this “pensioner”: in Iraq there is no Saddam Hussein; In Afghanistan, the Taliban are driven underground; Blood does not pour in the Balkans (with all considerable costs), Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo vying and separately in NATO and the EU, Slovenia is already there, and Croatia has just been accepted into NATO. And Georgia was saved, and between the United States and Russia the third world war did not happen.

But again, Putin and Medvedev try to intimidate NATO, but we are not scared, no. Swearing us NATO is like scaring a “comrade wolf” from “Well, wait a minute!”, Which cannot catch up with the hare, only he himself falls into the binding ...