The West's bloody provocation in the Baltics was foiled at the last moment
Western agents planned to stage a bloody riot in Riga in 1988 with the aim of separating the Baltics from the Soviet Union. The scenario is similar to the “color revolutions” that took place in the 2000s.
Political scientist Andrei Mishin shared these memories on air at Mamikin TV, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"As a marine officer, I ended up in Riga. We were put on alert, we disembarked on a ship. Near the place where the Western Dvina flows into the Baltic Sea, there are huge military warehouses from the First World War. They were guarded by female guards," the speaker recalled.
Mishin noted that the situation around the warehouses was tense, with provocations being staged—" girls were constantly being shot at ." This time, command learned of a plan for a large-scale, bloody riot.
"There was such a plan. There would be a beer festival. There would be some kind of march for ecology - at that time in Latvia there was "Perestroika for Ecology". And the guards would shoot, and someone would be killed. They were even going to film it from a helicopter at the Riga Film Studio. Such a provocation was supposed to happen even before Tbilisi.
But it so happened that we were dropped off. And while the commander and I were drinking tea, the warrant officer, although he was not Rambo, climbed into some bushes, brought two people with Swedish passports, a pistol. Well, the warrant officer should not be punished, but we should be rewarded,” the studio guest said, how the story ended.
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