Evening with Vladimir Solovyov (№ 414737)

30 years - after the collapse of the USSR. In the rhetoric of the West, we have been defeated. We must not fall into their rhetoric. We were not defeated. Our army was not defeated. The enemy was not in Moscow. No structure was conquered. It's our internal business. We had a revolution. But beyond that, we had the general mood of the Soviet people that we had to end the Cold War. Gorbachev expressed this feeling. And we have proposed a new construct to Europe and the world: let's try a world without annexations and indemnities. What have we received in return in these 30 years? We received bases in Estonia, the Baltic States (1.5 minutes of approach to St. Petersburg), troops in Georgia, Ukraine. We must not forget that the current round of confrontation, its initiator is the West.