Аннотация: Stalin, Churchill, Broz Tito and the Pristina throw. An essay on the history of Russial diplomacy.
Stalin, Churchill, Broz Tito and the Pristina throw. An essay on the history of Russial diplomacy.
The history of relations between Marshal Stalin and Marshal Broz Tito suggests that Soviet diplomacy had one of the traditions - to be wary of problems in the Balkans.
This tradition began, perhaps, in Russian imperial diplomacy and in the results of the war of 1877-1878, in the results of the Berlin Congress of 1878.
For the Soviet diplomacy, the multilateral Montreux Convention (1936) was a major achievement, and she cherished this convention.
Lenin, this unkind genius, found in the Russian people some very interesting quality. If you take the creativity of Yuri Trifonov as an example, then in the city of Kozlov native aunts may starve to death, but the nephew will be concerned about the course of the distant battles between the army of the republican government and the troops of Generalissimo Franco.
Lenin promoted the theory of world communism. For a mysterious reason, this theory had the sustained support of part of the country's population.
Stalin had to accuse the Yugoslav leader Broz Tito of some ideological sins in order to distance himself from the Balkan problems and to reliably base on the Montreux Convention.
Khrushchev tried to get away from previous traditions and draw closer to Broz Tito. (Stormy activity began in favor of fraternal peoples, honest people of the whole the world ... These good fraternal peoples were not interested in anything in 1991 and in subsequent years?)
After 1991, Russial diplomats appeared. Russial diplomacy considered it appropriate to vote in the UN Security Council in such a way as not to conflict with the Western powers on issues of Balkan politics.
For example, it was planned to deploy coalition troops at the Slatina airfield, not far from Pristina (Kosovo).
If Russia joins a consolidated position, it is logical to wait until the deployment of troops occurs - in accordance with the plan.
But in this logical point a lot, a lot of details are hidden. And not in a short sketch to begin to consider them.
Under whose control is Slatina Airport?
Under the control of units of the Yugoslav army.
Further we can only speculate. The logical reconstruction of events is as follows.
An officer with an escort group is sent to the airport. He comes to the senior officer of the Yugoslav army units stationed at the airport and explains that coalition troops (possibly British and American military units) will appear at the airport soon.
If you read the biography of Josip Broz Tito, written by Eugene Matonin, you can come to the conclusion that a long period of relatively quiet existence of Yugoslavia was associated with good personal relations between Broz Tito and Churchill.
The arrival of the British troops was not such a bad option for the units of the Yugoslav army located at the airport. In a sense, this would be a painful, gradual return to the foreign policy tradition laid down by Churchill and Broz Tito.
But the arrived person says something. He convinces ... He is trying to direct the senior officer of the Yugoslav army to a specific decision ...
Perhaps in parallel there are some negotiations in Belgrade.
As a result, the senior officer of the Yugoslav military units expresses a favorable attitude towards the proposals of the arrived person (he will receive the title of Hero for this operation, he will be transfered to civil service, but after some unrest in the subject of the federation entrusted to him, he will be appointed to the position of Deputy Minister of Defense - there is the title of Hero and there is military rank; he conducted legendary negotiations about the Slatina airfield ...).
If there is a benevolent attitude expressed by a senior officer of the Yugoslav army, then immediately in the direction of the airfield a column of armored vehicles is advanced. The soldiers from this column occupy the airfield.
When coalition troops arrive (the names of British and American military men are called), they are informed that the airfield is already occupied.
There is a tense situation. In the event of an unfavorable development of events, shooting may begin. We will not state, present our assumptions on how events could develop, what could follow this shooting. In our opinion, a phone call from high spheres would quickly come. And the shooting would stop. But still shooting - it would be unpleasant and would poison the international atmosphere.
The British general was a man with diplomatic and military traditions and, in a gentlemanly way, avoided the direction of actions that could lead to an aggravation of the conflict and to shooting.
After the creation of the 'throw' legend and the full use of this legend, the airport was gradually transferred (handed) to the newly created Republic of Kosovo. Some countries recognize this Republic, while the others do not recognize ...
Of course, the organizers of the throw received a certain foreign policy and journalistic benefit (profit), but the restraint of those who avoided shooting causes respect. They somehow indirectly thought about all of us - about Europeans ... Why would Europeans shoot each other unnecessarily?...
Maybe there are no ideal options in foreign policy, but Stalin, Churchill and Broz Tito were making a fairly effective policy ...
[DCCCXCIII. The Sketch about radio fuel.
CMXXXI. The Story about the Tam-Tams and about two versions of the march towards Pristina.
MLIX. The Story about Baluevsky, Makarov, Gerasimov.
MCCСCLX. Tatsinskaya, Pristina, Al-Watiya. A historical essay.
MDI. Slatina airport and a bargaining. A note on modern history.]
June 28, 2020 08:31
Translation from Russian into English: June 28, 2020 09:18.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Сталин, Черчилль, Броз Тито и приштинский бросок. Очерк истории российской дипломатии'.