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MINSK, 1 May (BelTA) - In the 1970s, the Soviet Union missed a strategic initiative because it expected to join the so-called Western community on equal terms, Russian historian, director of the Institute for Systemic and Strategic Analysis Andrei Fursov said in a new episode of the project V Teme [On Point] on BelTA’s YouTube channel.
“In the 1970s, the Soviet Union missed the strategic initiative, and the Soviet Union’s governing elite staked on entering the Western world. People who wanted to enter the Western world wanted to change the social order, but they did not want to break the Soviet Union. They wanted the USSR to be accepted as an equal in the Western community. There are no other words to explain it except foolishness. If you want to come to someone else's house, if you want to be accepted there, you cannot claim to be the master. You have to obey the rules and take a place somewhere in the servants’ room,” said Andrei Fursov.
The historian believes that Leonid Brezhnev had a very wide corridor of opportunities. Mikhail Gorbachev narrowed it, and by the time Boris Yeltsin took over Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this corridor had become the narrowest. President Vladimir Putin later widened it slightly.
“The only thing that saves is nuclear weapons, the legacy of Stalin and Beria. In all other respects it is a raw materials appendage. The special military operation has revealed all these problems,” he emphasized.
According to Andrei Fursov, that is why Russia is not a participant of globalist or ultra-globalist projects, which cannot be called a disadvantage. The fact is Russia has no place at the ‘master's table’ in these projects.
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