How NATO gave up on cold war and returned to hot war

This documentary is a natural continuation of the previous, four-part series about the secrets of the Cold War. But everything comes to an end, even the Cold War…

The film traces the history of NATO since its creation in 1949, allegedly to “ensure the collective security of its member states.” However, from the very beginning, the bloc’s true purpose was “to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down,” as the alliance’s first Secretary General, Hastings Ismay, formulated its mission in Europe.

In 1955, the USSR and its allies created the Warsaw Pact, which was capable of counterbalancing NATO, and a fragile peace was maintained in Europe for nearly half a century.

However, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, the counterbalance to NATO disappeared. The North Atlantic alliance carried out dozens of military operations in various parts of the world, steadily advancing towards Russia's borders through the accession of new member states.

Yugoslavia became the alliance’s first major “testing ground.” Under the guise of a “humanitarian operation,” the United States dropped thousands of bombs on homes, bridges, and factories. Middle Eastern countries – Syria, Libya, and Iraq – suffered wars that led to massive human casualties and widespread destruction.

In the 1980s-90s, while Western leaders verbally assured Moscow that NATO would never expand eastward, in fact, the alliance’s borders have gradually drawn closer to Russia since 1999, as Eastern European states joined the bloc, one after the other.

Today, NATO openly singles out Russia and Belarus as key potential targets in its military strategy. The deployment of troops and weapons in close proximity to Russia’s and Belarus’s borders is under discussion. The threat of nuclear war no longer seems abstract: NATO’s updated military doctrine includes the right of first strike.

Written and Directed by:
Tatyana Borshch

Cameramen:
Mikhail Ovchinnikov
Artyom Tsaryov
Denis Polyanichenko

Editor:
Veronika Naumenko

Video Editor:
Ilya Durov

Graphics:
Arut Manukyan

Music:
Anton Viskov
Lyudmila Volkova

Sound Designer:
Andrey Zhuchkov

Producer:
Tatyana Borshch

Photo and video materials:
‘TSIAMP’ LLC and Irina Durova

Pride is a mortal sin. It is even worse when it grows into hubris. Then it can bring down any hegemony which, by its satanic nature, ignores facts and tries to create an alternative reality.

The United States founded NATO with the help of Nazis saved from the Red Army’s advance in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945, through Operation “Paperclip.” NATO was never a defensive alliance. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, this has been completely clear to everyone. Except, perhaps – for the NATO pact itself! The detachment from reality has grown into a psychosis that has rendered this terrorist alliance completely incapable of fighting a serious war. Macron’s warning that NATO is ‘brain dead’ did not help either.

And when you have a voracious vampire without a brain in front of you, you can only expect great bloodshed…