The report in Bauman Moscow State Technical University

On April 7, 2016, chief scientific associate of IE RAS Department of European Security, RAS Professor A. Sindeev delivered the report on “The Role of Anti-Soviet Propaganda of Western German Politicians in Building the European Security System at the Start of the Cold War" at the round table discussion, devoted to the Cold War history, organized by the History Chair of Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

A. Sindeev marked that the anti-Soviet propaganda was backed by the desire to unite FRG population for implementation of questionable political decisions. The country’s elite understood the contrived nature of the Soviet threat, and was doing its best to join the forming security structures as soon as possible. The European integration was viewed as means of assuring the security, the economic aspect of it was not seriously considered. A direct analogy is hardly possible, but one can assume that the role, once played by FRG politicians in relation to the USSR, is now taken by authorities of the Baltic states and Poland in relation to Russia. But playing with the enemy image can lead to drastic consequences, so it is necessary to learn the lessons of the history and the mistakes for which we are now paying.