+1. I fail to see how the NATO is in the 'wrong' here. They broke assurances in 1994 that they made to an entity which failed to exist after 1991. WUT?
Russia isn’t the Soviet Union, it was a part of the Soviet Union, and a member of the “Commonwealth of Independent States” that nominally succeeded it. My understanding is that treaties were reaffirmed with the individual states.
Does every non-binding commitment to be Soviet Union apply to Uzbekistan? Estonia? Georgia?
What about when the desires of Estonia conflict with the Soviets?
What about when the interests of the United States and other big NATO states conflict with the commitments to the various Post-Soviet states?
Russia picked up all the Soviet Union debt obligations. All those successor states have been essentially debt free on day one.
Kaliningrad was also given to Soviet Union Even though it was attached to Russian Federation to work around this. If Russia ain't Soviet Union successor, Kaliningrad should be no man's land or returned to Germany.
Talking about Estonia.. When Estonia tried to relocate USSR monument, it was Russia which objected.
Repercussions of Holodomor were deaths of millions of Soviet citizens in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belarus. What do you want Russia to accept here ?
Yet they love Soviet Union obligations when they don't return Lithuania's interwar embassy in Rome. Or when May 8/9 comes around :)
USSR didn't accept 'Tsar's bonds' yet Russia payed them out.
So, yeah, double standards.
> What do you want Russia to accept here
Same as for praising 'Russian' victory over Germany, for example. Accept their involvement.