No analogies!

Blogger Pavel Pryanikov recalls the diaries of Anatoly Chernyaev - Deputy Head of the International Department of the CPSU Central Committee, and quotes fragments related to the beginning of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan:

“And in the world the devil knows what. The whole world condemned us and cursed: at the UN - 104 delegations voted against us and only 17 - with us. Pharisee? Yes, sure. But we threw a good litmus piece of paper - and the hatred hidden everywhere appeared (at best) to us. We were condemned by governments and parliaments, all kinds of committees and figures personally, parties and trade unions. Even some "fraternal" Communist Parties - ICP, KPI, CPV, Japanese, Belgians, Swedes. For aggression, for the violation of all international norms, for the occupation, for undermining the discharge, for provoking the arms race, for encroachment on the Muslim world, to non -compliance, to oil sources, on which the life of the whole West and Japan, and so on, and so on.

For what, but I don’t understand? Or just by stupidity, they did not count well. Or maybe a provocation in the style of Beria?! One of the Western commentators wrote: "This is either a terrible miscalculation or a terrible calculation." I'm afraid that the second did not smell. The one who ultimately decided - just Russian rudeness: how it is, they say, they can go against me, I will show you how to not reckon with me! The horror of the situation is that the final = sole decision belonged to complete insematics. (Although prepared, it was welded). He (Brezhnev) was shown here a week ago on television: the presentation of the mandate for election to the Supreme Council of the RSFSR is the first candidate of the people. The spectacle is terrifying. "