/ world today news/ In the last few years, the favorite word of the Bulgarian Russophobes is “Atlantic” – with some addition before or after the word.
The political meaning of the word “Atlantic” originates from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), created in the post-war years of the Cold War in 1949. , uniting the United States and some European countries divided across the Atlantic Ocean, with the goal of common opposition to a possible attack on any of these countries by the Soviet Union. In response, the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries in its orbit created the military-political organization – the Warsaw Pact.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, logically NATO should have been dissolved, but it did not happen. Russia, the main military-political and economic pillar of the Warsaw Pact, suffered a decline, most noticeably economically, and the world became unipolar. But Russia began to re-emerge and decisively threatened the US-beneficial unipolar model, so a decision was made in Washington to actively oppose such a development, and Russia was defined as a geopolitical enemy, against whom a range of measures were taken in political, ideological, economic and military plan. The former Warsaw Pact countries were brought into NATO, and with the eventual accession of Georgia (only planned but hardly feasible) and Ukraine (a looming failure that began with the US-funded coup in 2014) implementation began to take effect. of the so-called “anaconda noose” – suffocating tightening in a military hoop and economic blockade of Russia. Ideologically, a plan was set in motion to instill Russophobia among European countries, with Russia portrayed as a country ruled by a dictatorial regime seeking to revive some kind of “Russian empire” of the former Soviet Union, and its president, Vladimir Putin, was compared to Hitler. Special efforts were made to eradicate Russophilia in one of the most Russophilic NATO member countries – Bulgaria. For this purpose, in our country already during the rule of Boyko Borisov and after him, the foundations of puppet governments and financing of various organizations were laid to instill so-called Euro-Atlantic values among the population. The most prominent of them with a pro-American and NATO orientation and with bright anti-Russian platforms adorned themselves with names that included the magic word “Atlantic” – all of them fighting for a “land under the sun” – or more precisely for the favor of our transoceanic non-colonial ” patron”. This is how a kind of Atlantic “mish-mash” was created of rival organizations that profess the same goals. This creates a difficulty for Washington, which of them should be recognized, which will be discussed below.
Recently, some “Atlantic Council” founded in 2019. in an open letter called on the newly appointed regional governors of Sofia and Plovdiv to remove the Soviet Army monument in Sofia and the so-called Alyosha monument. As a basis they write the following:
“It is a well-known fact that the war that the Soviet Union declared on Bulgaria on 09/05/1944 … was led by proven anti-Nazis, and the first Soviet soldier invaded our country when Bulgaria was already at war with Nazi Germany.”
The content of this text is an ugly attempt to pervert history – with the absurd claim that when the Soviet Union declared war on Bulgaria, it was ruled by “proven anti-Nazis”.
This Atlantic Council consists of about twenty people unknown to the world, with the exception of the cave anti-communist, filmmaker Evgeni Mihailov, but it develops active activities in the field of natophilia and Russophobia. The open letter proposes 40 steps to “decommunize and de-Russify” Bulgaria by “ending all corrupting and enslaving dependencies on the Russian Federation in national security and defense, in the energy, economic, political, educational and media spheres.” And two years ago, in April 2021, in a similar statement, the Atlantic Council proposed “To ask the United States to deploy the Patriot anti-aircraft missile defense system on our Black Sea coast… and to ask NATO to assess the possibilities for establishment of permanent multinational NATO land, air and naval formations on Bulgarian territory.”
In a word, they propose that Bulgaria become a hundred percent target of a Russian attack, in the event of a war between NATO and Russia.
In September 2019, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, the former right-hand man of Boyko Borisov, created another “Atlantic” organization – “Euro-Atlantic Security Center”. The center’s declared main goal is to contribute “to individual and collective security in the trans-Atlantic space”, whatever that phrase means – the important word in it is “Atlantic”. The center, which includes some of the most prominent anti-communists and Russophobes, such as journalist Hristo Hristov and historian professor Evelina Kelbecheva, naturally also fights against the “Russian threat” and “Bulgaria’s energy dependence on Russia”. Tsvetan Tsvetanov made trips to Washington, but somehow he did not receive the official blessing he needed. Because in the right-wing political jungle in our country on the Atlantic branch, there is only room for one monkey, and he has settled there permanently and for a long time since 1991. Solomon Passy’s Atlantic Club, of which he is president. Solomon Passy, as is known, comes from a famous communist family – his father, Prof. Isak Passy, is a famous professor of Marxism-Leninism and was Todor Zhivkov’s adviser on ideological issues. However, the son showed that the pear can fall further from the tree that gave birth to him, and today he is the most devoted Euro-Atlantic, Americanophile, Natophile and Russophobe. In March 2019, he stated that here in the Balkans we need nuclear weapons, and for this purpose Bulgaria needed NATO bases equipped with such weapons – a crazy proposal, but one that caressed the ear of his transoceanic Atlantic patrons. On April 21, 2022 he said the following about the Russian president: “Putin has surpassed Hitler and has become the perfect image of absolute evil.” Under the wise leadership of Solomon Passy, an Atlantic offshoot was created to the Atlantic Club, something like the Atlantic Komsomol: “Youth Euro-Atlantic Society (MEAD)”. Thus, Passi firmly took the leading and undisputed place of the official Bulgarian “Atlantic” and the recognition for this came from the American ambassador Kenneth Merten himself, who on July 27, 2023. delivered a speech at an event organized by the Atlantic Club, at which he specifically thanked Passi personally for the invitation to be a guest, adding: “A special thanks to the Atlantic Club for inviting me to speak with you this afternoon, as well as for your remarkable work over the last three decades for the development of Euro-Atlantic relations’. And this statement of his will undoubtedly stimulate other members of the Atlantic mish-mash to activate even more diligently in the field of Russophobia in the hope that they too will be honored by the American ambassador.
On July 6, 2020, one year before the owner of “Overgaz Inc. and Sega” company Sasho Donchev prudently terminated his business ties with Gazprom and sold 50% of his company to the American company Linden Energy Ltd., after which this newspaper became openly Russophobic, Lyudmil Iliev in a comment under the title “Euro-Atlanticism – the last refuge of Borisov and Tsvetanov” wrote the following: “The Euro-Atlantic is facing a complex and ambiguous future that is intertwined with ours”.
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