Wednesday, March 2 2022 11:34

ArmInfo. The conflict between the West and Russia has entered another stage of aggravation and it is obvious that it will last a long time and will be repeated  regularly.  This opinion is shared by the Armenian opposition figure,  ex-vice speaker of parliament, historian Eduard Sharmazanov.

"When I listen to the European "democrats" and before my eyes appears  the Armenian master Aram, who fled from Baghdad with his  grandchildren and hundreds of our compatriots, cursing the  "democratic" world for attacking Iraq and leaving them homeless. I  cannot forget the emotions of my Serbian friend Dragan, who did not  understand the guilt of his mother in Belgrade, which was bombed by  NATO. I remembered my good friend Artak, whose house in Shushi was  left to the Turks.

Where were the European "democrats" when Azerbaijan attacked the  people of Artsakh and bombed peaceful settlements? Our sisters and  brothers also emigrated with their elderly parents and small  children.  Why did you keep silent, "guardians of democracy"? Or did  you cross out Artsakh from your maps with Azerbaijani oil? Why have  you never applied these sanctions to Aliyev? Because for many of you,  Azerbaijani caviar was more precious than the liberation struggle of  the people of Artsakh," Sharmazanov said.

At the same time, he expressed his conviction that even today many of  the so-called "democrats" do not support the people of Ukraine, but  fight against Russia for geopolitical interests.  In this vein, he  recalled that the confrontation between Russia and the West is not  new, goes back many centuries and has a civilizational component. The  historian recalled that the first stage of the conflict began under  Alexander Nevsky in 1240, when he, with a small army from Novgorod,  attacked the Swedish camp at the mouth of the Nya River, defeated  them and drove them away, and in 1242 defeated the German army on  Lake Peipus. Having made a phased historical digression from the  Romanov dynasty to Napoleon Bonaparte, Sharmazanov reached the Second  World War. In this vein, he stated that during the Second World War,  the West was forced to conclude an alliance with the USSR against  Nazi Germany.  According to the politician, however, even under these  conditions, the conflict between the parties was obvious, which was  clearly manifested at the Tehran (1943) and Yalta (1945) conferences.  "In 1944-1945, a Soviet soldier entered Warsaw, Budapest, Bucharest,  Vienna, Berlin, liberating the whole of Europe from fascism. However,  the collective West could not tolerate the leadership of the USSR for  a long time. And already on March 5, 1946, former British Prime  Minister Winston Churchill made a speech in Fulton (USA) that marked  the beginning of the Cold War between the West and the USSR.NATO was  formed in 1949. The leadership of the USSR did not want to aggravate  relations with the West. That is why on March 31, 1954, the USSR  Foreign Ministry officially applied for membership in NATO, but was  refused," the expert recalled, also recalling the Berlin and  Caribbean crises of the 1950-1960s, resolved through diplomacy,  despite the closeness of the military confrontation.

"After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, the parties came to an  agreement several times. But instead of reaching an agreement, the  West expanded NATO at the expense of Russia's vital interests. After  the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11, 2001, the world  needed a unified security system, but the parties were satisfied only  with the formation of the Russia-NATO Council in 2002.  Tensions  between the parties intensified after the implementation of "color  revolutions" in the post-Soviet space, where Ukraine was of key  importance. For the West, the separation of Ukraine from Russia was a  goal that would paralyze the latter, and for Russia, Ukraine is an  integral part of the Russian world or Eastern Christian civilization.  The conflict has entered another phase of escalation. History has  shown that this will last a long time and will be repeated  regularly," Sharmazanov believes.