The chronicle of secret war and diplomacy. 1938-1941 years (№ 385147)

In 1990 Gorbachev and Yakovlev gave a wide-ranging discussion about the Soviet-German nonaggression Pact and secret protocols to it. Striking a farce the organization of hearings on this issue at the Congress of people's deputies. In the critical periods of world history, secret diplomacy and secret protocols - the inevitable attributes of foreign policy. Unlike ordinary parliamentarians, and Gorbachev and Yakovlev, and Shevardnadze, at that time secretly dogovarivalis with the leadership of the United States, England and Germany on loans, loans in exchange for the Soviet Union's withdrawal from Eastern Europe, was well aware of this report. All the fuss around the secret protocols to the Soviet-German Pact has been rather sophisticated in matters of secret diplomacy with the people in order to divert attention from its own failures in foreign policy, from unilateral, unjustified strategic concessions to the Western powers. Nothing but "sincere" stupidity and professional incompetence cannot explain their calculations on the fact that the countries of the West economically will help the revival of "democracy" in the Soviet Union in exchange for foreign policy concessions and the unilateral cessation of the cold war.