Protic: From the Baltic Republics to Bulgaria, they could not wait to escape under Russia’s “iron fist”

Former Serbian Ambassador to Washington Milan Protic said in a show on TV Nova that the example of Ukraine shows that those countries that decided to join NATO in time, today, are more protected, and this should be understood as a lesson.

Protic also stated that the Russian Federation today has 120 million people on its borders, who have always had very negative feelings towards Moscow.

He added that everyone, from the Baltic republics to Bulgaria, is wary of Russia and could not wait to escape its “iron fist” and rush to guard and be protected from that “fist” in the embrace of the European Union and NATO.

“Taking the example of Ukraine, it is seen that those who decided to join NATO in time, are more protected today than Ukraine, which could have done this and did not, and this is a lesson.

“For those countries that are members of NATO, this kind of aggression would be less dangerous than for Ukraine”, Protic noted. He also added that being in the place of one who is in Moscow, would be very concerned about this circumstance.

“By what they did, they only nurtured, awakened those old fears, instead of realizing what happened after the fall of the Soviet Union, which collapsed on its own without firing a single bullet. How wrong, inverted and catastrophic that project was, and how much it has caused intolerance, fear, and distrust in their neighbors”, said Proti, by adding that everyone turned against and went to the other side.

“Instead of redefining themselves and starting to treat their neighbors differently, erasing those fears and showing the most beautiful face the Russians have, they threw it under their feet,” he said, among other things. During his speech, Protic also referred to the work of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky “Demons”, where he said that in that work are described three destructive anti-Russian things – atheism, immorality and nihilism. ”Demons” was written as a political pamphlet, elevated to the highest level of literary aesthetics.

These are the three fatalities that the current government in Moscow is fulfilling, and they are atheists, immoral and nihilistic. “It’s real Russianism, it’s no coincidence that Dostoevsky was a banned writer throughout the Soviet Union”.