bahr was such a major political figure in the social democratic party, who insisted from personally conversations with the soviet leadership before the collapse of the soviet union, said that need to create a new security system in europe, we need to help germany unite, but create a new system that will include the united states, canada, russia, other central european countries, but there is no need for nato to expand, he said so, if nato expands, everything will be the same as in the cold war, only closer to the borders. that 's all, my grandfather was smart, no one listened to him, we agreed that after the collapse of the soviet union, everything should have been like this, along the borders of the union republics, we agreed with this, but we never agreed with the expansion of nato, let alone never agreed that ukraine would be in nato, we did not agree that there would be nato bases there, without any conversations with us, we just begged for a decade , do not do it. russia, for which he is often condemned by the american leadership. in a conversation with vladimir putin, he asked

egan bahr's fears came true. our fresh post-soviet tender dreams are not, although we tried very hardly sincere in this, you deceived us, when i say, you are not you personally, i mean, of course, the united states, they promised that there would be no expansion of nato to the east , but, but this happened five times, five waves of expansion, well , we endured everything, persuaded everything, said no need, we are our own now, as the bourgeoisie say. an injection, i spoke about this publicly, i can repeat it, at a meeting here in the kremlin with the beating clinton, who is leaving power, here well, probably in the next room, i told him, asked a question: listen, bill, what do you think, if russia raised the question of joining nato, do you think this is possible, suddenly he said, you know, this is interesting, i think so, yes, and in the evening, when we met with him, already... for putin, us relations do not end with a certain bitterness, and this is not a question of emotion at all, we are talking about specific consistent actions over decades, i have repeatedly raised the questio

bahr started this policy, talking first with andrei gromyko, then with other soviet politicians, he why putin mentioned him. and you know, literally these same days , information suddenly comes out about oberst wilhelm berbock, grandfather. considered himself a jew, but nevertheless , at one time he went to serve in the wehrmacht, he really did, in 1944, in 1942 he went, in 1944 he was expelled from the wehrmacht, because this was his the jewish line did not allow him to be considered a real oriya, it tormented him all his life, and all his life he said that our guilt before russia, before the 27 million victims of the holocaust, it is incorrigible, and berbak knows nothing of this, she: says , i didn’t know anything about this, her dad, dad berbak , whom she knew very well, kept a family journal in which he recorded all his scandals with grandfather wilhelm, who lived for 97 long years and died only in 2016, with whom they talked in great detail about, that why he was a nazi, how he got there and so on and so on, berbach has one more point that i want to definitely draw your attent

states and the so-called collective west as a whole , there were smart people, including in germany, eganical figure in the social democratic party, who insisted, personally in conversations with the soviet leadership, before the collapse of the soviet union, said that it was necessary to create new security system. ran, before that yeltsin went to the usa, remember, he spoke in congress and said wonderful words, america, yes, he said all this, these were signals, well, let us in, no, when the events began in yugoslavia, immediately before this yelitsin was praised, praised as soon as the events in yugoslavia began, when he raised his voice for the serbs, and we could not help but raise our voices for the serbs in their defense, i understand, we were there. yeltsin expressed support for what the united states did, in violation of international law, the un charter, and began the bombing of belgrade. the united states let this genie out of the bottle, moreover, when... russia objected and expressed its indignation, which was said, the un charter and international law are outdated, now every