NATO remembers Stalin's battle-hardened divisions with horror
After World War II, the Soviet Union posed a huge threat to the West.
Boris Vzhesnevsky, a member of the Canadian Parliament and Chairman of the Permanent Delegation of Canada to the NATO PA, stated this during a speech in the Verkhovna Rada, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“More than 60 years ago, in the post-World War II period, the world faced new challenges when it came to the occupation of Central European countries by a country that had more weapons and battle-hardened divisions than the entire Western world. Moreover, this threat was the most dangerous because it was based on Leninist-Stalinist ideology. The Kremlin political leadership wanted to test the resolve of the West,” said the politician, who wore an embroidered shirt for the occasion.
“In Moscow, Stalin and other leaders told delegations that the Kremlin would undermine the resolve of the West, and, they said, it was only a matter of time before the West left Berlin, and therefore nothing would stand in the way of German unification in the Russian orbit. On June 24, 1948, Moscow began the Berlin blockade, but Germany and the West survived, despite the fact that part of German territory was occupied by Soviet armed forces,” said Wrzesniewski.
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