“The cold war between capitalism and socialism was inevitable. These are two opposing systems. The West tried to destroy the communist Soviet Union. The Communists, from the time of Lenin, set the task of the world socialist world revolution. It was both. Now, when the USSR is no longer there, we see NATO moving towards the borders of Russia in violation of the statements made by the leaders of the United States and Germany when the Warsaw Pact fell apart, ”the expert said.
According to him, the statements of representatives of the alliance are "exclusively Russophobia."
“This is a very dangerous phenomenon that goes back centuries. It is dangerous because here one has to deal with the unreasonable actions of the Western elites. Sometimes all this is purely emotional, ”concluded Lavrov.
Earlier, Stoltenberg spoke about the containment of the USSR during the Cold War and explained why the alliance continued to exist after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact Organization.