Ian Traynor – Cold War bombshell | Putin declassifies documents revealing that USSR wanted to join NATO in 1954: Application was rejected
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (foto Public Radio Tulsa)
NATO, the Atlantic Empire
A year after Stalin died in 1953 and a year before the Warsaw Pact was established in 1955, the Kremlin asked to join NATO, according to a secret file which President Vladimir Putin unveiled last night.
In a coup de théatre which will have Cold War historians breaking out in a sweat, Putin brandished what he described as a recently declassified ‘note’ from the Soviet government to Western leaders from 1954.
It stated that Moscow was “holding to its intention of entering negotiations on joining” NATO, formed five years earlier.
Putin used the ploy to answer a question on RUssian reaction to possible NATO expansion into parts of the former USSR following George Bush’s robust advocacy of potential NATO membership for all countries ‘from the Baltic to the Black Sea’.
He then revealed that the 1954 response from the West was that “the unrealistic nature of the proposal does not warrant discussion.”
Comment: That has got to be THE ‘brush off’ of the 20th century.
A mischievous Putin pointed out that he suggested RUssian membership of NATO a year ago but was rebuffed by Madeleine Albright, then the US Secretary of State.
Comment: Note the adjective ‘mischievous’ – 15 years ago the Powers That Be were already wary of Putin.
And while it was stressed that RUssia and America could be ‘allies’, Colin Powell, Albright’s successor, made clear that that was ‘allies with a small “a”‘.
Comment: From day one, apparently, Putin has had the Powers That Be periodically ‘breaking out in sweats’! Again we see that the ‘Cold War’ was entirely of the West’s making. The US needed the Cold War to cement its post WWII position as ‘world government’.
RUssia, or the USSR, were not allowed to join NATO because its influence would interfere with NATO’s true purpose: to establish and maintain Western, specifically Anglo American, global hegemony.
Note that the Warsaw Pact was only formed AFTER the USSR was refused, thus completely undermining the revisionist NATO history which justifies its original existence as necessary to counter a Soviet (really, a RUssian) military threat to EUrope.
Once NATO (Washington and London) refused RUssian entry into NATO, the RUssians realized NATO’s true purpose, and after having only just survived the most titanic War in all history, RUssia thus had no choice but to establish a counter alliance.
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
The Guardian, Sun, 17 Jun 2001 18:42 UTC
Posted by Gordon.
The Tap Blog, Mon 1:10 pm UTC, 28 Mar 2016
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