Over the last couple of years we are witnessing anti-Russian hysteria in the Balkans, where Russia is allegedly involved in various coup attempts (Montenegro), assassinations (Azem Vlasi) or the destruction of the SFRY (General Grahovac). All of these alleged “attempts” by Russia always end unsuccessfully, with failed assassinations, coups or conspiracies discovered. Paradoxically, it is always the marginal second-rate politicians or states that are “targeted”. The Russian services, on the other hand, have been accused of poisoning their former agents with polonium by breaking through the defense rings of one of Britain’s best intelligence services, but in the hilly Balkans “everything goes wrong”.
General Grahovac, a former JNA (Yugoslav People’s Army) pilot, was one of the main proponents of blaming the KGB for dissolution of the SFRY (former Yugoslavia) during the wars of the 1990s, even turning his “thesis” into a book called “The KGB Devil’s work in the Balkans” in which he, through the use of what could only be described as science fiction, connects people and events into a “logical” sequence. Even though it is quite clear that after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the West embarked on a crusade against the leaders of the Eastern Bloc, overthrowing them through the use of the concept of “springs”, and that Yugoslavia, with its numerous internal contradictions, could not find its place in new circumstances and was thus dismantled.
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