Russia Is Building Fallout Shelters & Putin Issues Ultimatum To USA
Russia Is Building Fallout Shelters to Prepare for a Potential Nuclear Strike
Is this self-defense, an implied threat to the West, an excuse for political repression, or all of the above?
MOSCOW — Managers of the Zenit Arena, a giant half-built stadium in St. Petersburg, received an official letter from the Ministry of Emergency Situations
last week demanding that they immediately create shelter facilities for
wartime. The stadium, under construction for the upcoming World Cup 2018,
is located outside the city boundaries, the letter said, but in case of
nuclear attack it is in the potential “zone of war destruction and
radiation fallout.”
The last time Russians heard
authorities talk like this about a potential mobilization for a nuclear
strike was 20 years ago, and it all seemed highly improbable. Now, it
appears, the Kremlin is not joking. Up to 40 million people participated
in recent civil-defense exercises all across the country, learning
about how to hide and where exactly to run to in case of a nuclear war.
But whether the motive behind this
is self-defense, an implied threat to the West, a means to mobilize and
control public opinion, or all of the above, is not entirely clear.
“These
are the most serious tensions between Moscow and Washington in decades,
said Sergei Markov, a member of the Civic Chamber, a Moscow-based state
institution. “The war might begin even before the November elections in
the U.S.”
“I personally plan to stock 200
cans of pork to be ready for a potential war crisis,” Markov told The
Daily Beast in an interview, “and I advise everybody to do the same.”
State Duma Deputy Vadim Dengin said
he hoped that there would be no war with United States. “I cannot
understand why the West cannot just leave us in peace, let us be,“ the
official said. “Americans should realize that it will be their children
looking for shelters, too, if they are serious about attacking Russia.“
On
Thursday, Vladimir Gladkov, a 19-year-old student, said he heard from a
neighbor that the closest bomb shelter to his apartment building was
Kitai Gorod metro station.
A thermonuclear bomb on Moscow?
Gladkov,
who was born years after the Soviet Cold War with the United States was
over, sounded frustrated: “Americans are not crazy to bomb us, I am not
sure why our authorities want people to experience hysterical panic
attacks. Maybe somebody feels annoyed that we feel too free and happy,”
he suggested.
In
Russia, where generations have suffered from wars or economic crises,
panic takes over quickly as a kind of contagious epidemic and some
respond with millennial obsessions.
During
the impoverished years of the early 1990s, thousands of Russians moved
to settlements in the Taiga seeking mystical salvation. Over 3,000
believers in Christ Vissarion still live in the Siberian woods waiting
for the End of Light.
In 2012 many in Russia waited in fear for the Mayan Doomsday. People bought bottles of vodka, matches, and candles to survive the dark times.
There is an expression that every
Russian knows well: “To save for a black day.” And there are so many
black days in Russian history—not just days, but years of devastation.
“My life is just one everlasting
black day,” says Baba Zoya, an old woman living alone in the village
of Bezvodnoye in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The 82-year-old pensioner
finds winters especially hard to survive.
“On some cold winter days when
every joint, every bone hurts, I have no energy to go out and buy a
piece of bread,” she told The Daily Beast. Her only comforts are her old
dog and a falling-apart armchair outside of her old dark wood isba,
a Russian traditional log house. She remembers World War II only too
well—dozens of Bezvodnoye men left one day and never came back. “I wish,
my dear, that you live your life without such awful memories,” she
said.
Last
week Perm, a city of more than 1 million people in the Ural region,
prepared shelters “for the employees who would continue to work during
wartime,” the state Russia channel reported.
Experts from the Ministry of
Emergency Situations inspected one of the shelters to make sure there is
enough space, medicine, and minimal provision; the daily norm of water
was three liters per person, the channel reported.
Television shows devoted to the
civil-defense drills explained to Russians that there was no reason to
panic, that during wartime authorities would make sure that there was no
radiation on public transport, that every person would have at least
300 grams of bread per day.
From early morning on Thursday,
activists received boxes with baby food, plastic bags full of diapers
and used warm clothes at Russia Behind Bars NGO, which had been
supporting Russian convicts for the last eight years. Were there bomb
shelters for the population of Russia’s prisons?
“No
chance to survive in prison,” the head of the NGO, Olga Romanova, told
The Daily Beast. “Russian prisoners will be doomed, everybody in jail
realizes that.”
For her part,
Romanova said she knew exactly where she would go and how many minutes
it would take for NATO missiles to reach Moscow.
“If
they bomb Moscow, I might make it to Taganka metro station, it takes me
about 5 minutes to run from my house,” Romanova told The Daily Beast.
“My husband and I have already discussed and decided that we would only
bring a couple of water bottles and our passports.”The Bear Has Had Enough! Putin Issues an Ultimatum to the United States Apologies and Changes in US’s Entire Policy! WTH! (Videos)
The Russian president plans to act as an equal, whether or not the U.S. wants to treat him as one.
Vladimir Putin asked the US to remove its defense infrastructure from Eastern Europe and from the territory of new NATO members in the Balkans and the Baltics (Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland) as well as its troops stationed there in recent years. He also insists that Washington’s sanction are lifted and compensation paid for the damage caused by them.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the termination of the plutonium processing agreement with the US, for hostile action by Washington against Russia and he set several conditions for its renewal – first, a “reduction of military infrastructure and the size of US contingent troops located in NATO countries who became members after September 1, 2000, to the level at which they were on the day of this agreement entering into force.”
“In relation with the radical change of circumstances, a threat to the strategic stability arises as a result of hostile actions of the United States of America toward the Russian Federation, and the inability of the US to ensure the implementation of commitments in the processing of excess plutonium for weapons purposes in accordance with international contracts” is stated in the official document, which terminated the agreement.
The agreement with the US was signed on August 29, 2000, and applies to the processing of excess plutonium for weapons purposes in Russia and the USA. Each party must take action to eliminate plutonium with a total weight of 34 tons.
Sergey Lavrov stated that Moscow sends a signal to Washington with its decision, that the US will not achieve anything by talking with Russia from a position of power, sanctions and ultimatums. This is a forced measure, but the Russian Foreign Minister stated that Russia is not abdicating its responsibilities for nuclear disarmament, according to material published on the website of the Ministry.
Reuters also reported that Vladimir Putin terminated the agreement with the US for the disposal of plutonium from nuclear warheads. The agency notes that this is another indication of the deteriorating relations between Washington and Moscow. The decree noted that the deal was terminated because of “the resultant threat to strategic stability and due to the hostilities of the United States toward the Russian Federation”. The US proved unable to fulfill their obligations to the contract.
The exact reason to terminate the agreement is the American method of processing the plutonium. The agreement call for the nuclear material to be processed “irreversibly”. Since 2010, the US stopped processing “irreversibly” and has only been burying the material, enabling them to produce nuclear munitions uncontrollably.
The draft law to stop the agreement also stated that the agreement will be renewed by decision of President Vladimir Putin, who is also a drafter of this text. But first, the US would have to “remove the causes that led to the fundamental change of circumstances.”
Moscow requires an “end of the hostile policy towards the Russian Federation through”:
– A repeal of the “Magnitsky” Law from 2012, through which dozens of officials deemed responsible for the death of Sergei Magnitsky in prison, are banned from entering the United States.
– A repeal of targeted against Russia provisions, in the Act of 2014 to support freedom in Ukraine.
– A removal of all sanctions introduced by the United States to natural and legal persons from Russia.
– A compensation for the damages caused to the Russian Federation as a result of the imposed sanctions, including damages caused by the (Russian) counter-sanctions.
The bill states: “The crisis in Ukraine is used as a pretext for increasing the US military presence in Eastern Europe. In 2015 were created 6 centers for troop control in Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland. Their main task is to provide operational transfer of large military forces of NATO in Eastern Europe. US military divisions entered the territory of the Baltic countries, and the number of airports for NATO aircraft were increased. US instructors are training personnel from the organization the “Right Sector” which is banned in Russia”.
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