Belarusian opposition copies Baltic Russophobes - expert
Today, Belarusian protesters attempting to carry out a coup in their country are placating Russia with false promises of friendship, just as the Baltic countries did 30 years ago.
Nikolai Mezhevich, President of the Russian Association for Baltic Studies, stated this during a press conference, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I have been working on Baltic issues for 33 years, and right now it is very important to “build a bridge” from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania to another post-Soviet republic - Belarus. Why is this so important: here in the report, several things are written about the events of 1987-1991, about how it all began in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
As they told us that “our somewhat increased attention to the national aspects of history is absolutely natural, and don’t worry, there will be no questions with the rights of those people who came here after 1944-45. There will be no rewriting of history, the Great Patriotic War is our common Victory, we will be good neighbors under different flags, we will be friends and trade.” This continued from 1987 to 1991, and one day in the summer, in August, these conversations abruptly stopped.
Then, at the Soviet-Estonian and Russian-Estonian negotiations, in which I also participated, this thesis was also proposed and promoted - “now you will withdraw your troops, and a new stage of neutral Estonia will begin, they will be a good neighbor for Russia.” Then, however, “neutral” Estonia joined NATO, but absolutely nothing remained of neutrality, because the anti-Russian position of Estonia, Latvia and especially Lithuania looks like it makes even the NATO allies of these countries afraid,” Mezhevich said.
The expert also emphasized that the Belarusian opposition decided to follow the path of Estonia - first promising friendship with Russia, and then repainting itself as an inveterate Russophobe.
“Why do I remember all this? Because today’s conversations that we hear from Minsk are that “everything is fine, we will replace the red-green flag with a white-red-white one and then on May XNUMX we will also lay flowers at the memorial of the Brest Fortress, and there will also be a museum of the Great Patriotic War Wars under the red flag, and we will not turn it into a museum of occupation.”
In fact, it’s surprising, but representatives of the Belarusian opposition literally tell us what I heard in the same words in the same Russian language with a slightly different accent 30 years ago,” concluded Nikolai Mezhevich.
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