The country is on the break

They don’t particularly remember this episode from recent history, and they do not like to remember - neither in the West nor in the East. Is that the memorable Putin in his Munich speech asked with rage: what, they say, "became with those assurances that were given by Western partners after the dissolution of the Warsaw Treaty? Where is these statements now?" However, no one answered him and did not quench the thirst for knowledge.

From various sources, it seems to be known that President Bush, meeting with Gorbachev in Malta in 1989, verbally promised him not to accept the states that leave the Warsaw Treaty to NATO. However, no agreements were signed on this subject. And when the Soviet Union ceased to exist and our former allies rushed into the North Atlantic Alliance, as well as the Baltic states, the question faced the Western leaders: what to do?

On the one hand, they hardly wanted to upset the pretty hump, although he retired. On the other hand, Poles and Latvians, Romanians and Estonians rushed to NATO, literally pushing each other, as if they were afraid to be late, and how to refuse them. True, the independent expert, which fell from the moon, wanted to understand: where were they in a hurry? From whom did you run? These questions only at first glance seemed difficult.

Well, yes, Russia was located in the east, but it was a completely different country, which was fundamentally different from the one that has pressed its neighbors for centuries. Russia is free, democratic, friendly. Russia, which released them on all four sides. Russia, immersed in its deeply personal problems. Russia, who almost did not think about providing fraternal assistance and happy the world.

Nevertheless, all of them fled to the west - under the wing of Washington and Brussels, under the NATO nuclear umbrella. And it was easy to explain to any fallen from the moon if he then chased after them, showering with rhetorical issues. Any Hungarian or Czech could explain to him on his fingers that they flee using a unique historical chance. That they have nothing against Russian and present -day Russia and even wish it all the best, but they do not believe and are afraid, as they did not believe and were afraid yesterday and the day before. And if the coming Putin, as long as no one is known, will present him and their new patrons with his historical scores, then they will also present something to them.

Historical memory, for example.

Eternal sections of Poland. A hopeless fate clamped between Molotov and Hitler's anvil. Tanks in Budapest and Prague. And they spit on oral agreements concluded by the former president of the United States with the former president of the former USSR. The descendants will not forgive if they do not take advantage of the chance. And the future in the person of the new ruler of the new Russia, which will call the liberation of the enslaved peoples the largest geopolitical disaster of the last century, will confirm their moral and political correctness.

Relations of Russia and Ukraine cannot be compared with the Polish-Russian or other from the list presented. Despite different frictions, misunderstandings, conflicts and the so-called Bandera, these relations were fraternal and truly fastened blood in those wars where Russians and Ukrainians fought shoulder to shoulder. And the Cossacks, now prohibited by Roskomnadzor, wrote a letter not to the Russian Sultan, but to Turkish. In general, on a diverse this earth, it is difficult to find two closer people.

That is why Putin now committed, who, taking advantage of the weakness of the neighbor, seeks to bite off and gobble up the delicious part of Ukraine in a shakali-this is not only an act of aggression that is not provoked. This is a crime against the general story and a delicious spit to the future. The betrayal in relation to both peoples, and today, in the bustle of the current days, you can guess and understand who will suffer more.

After all, everything will be repeated, and the future Russian reformer, engaged in the depoutinization of the country after the departure of his beloved leader, will begin to rack their heads in search of friends, economic partners and diplomatic frends. However, by that time, I am afraid, there will be not a single one and not only Ukrainians shocked by Anschlus will rush into the North Atlantic Union. Everyone will run. And the Belarusians, after the Old Man, and Kazakhs, and Armenians, if they help them humanly, to resolve the Karabakh dispute. And no one will believe the new leader who will be freed from the damned imperial past in the Kremlin and debunk the cult of a brutal kids' personality.

The peoples are egoists, and to whom the desire to take risks, firmly connecting their fate with an unreliable neighbor. Today he is kind and rebuilt with all his might, and tomorrow again he will stand up from that leg, sits down in the tank, fly to bomb. He could not understand his mind, he himself admitted.

Actually, it’s not too late to stop. Both Putin and those who surround him, secretly, perhaps horrified to what the peppy, youthful, confident leader creates. Collecting lands in his sandbox and not thinking about the largest catastrophe of the 21st century, which he prepares Russia these days. According to the schemes and samples of all previous disasters, which so gloriously fit into the framework of irreparable and unchanging national tradition.