The Metronome (The Counterpoint Trilogy Book 1) Page 28
On Russian Claims That the Promises Made to Gorbachev in 1989 Have Been Broken
Numerous participants in the Malta summit of 1989 and in subsequent discussions confirm that there was a promise to not expand NATO to Russia’s borders.
Illustrative sources:
“Superpower Illusions” by Jack F. Matlock, Jr., 2010 by Yale University. http://www.amazon.com/Superpower-Illusions-Jack-Matlock-Jr-ebook/dp/B00492CRVU
“NATO Enlargement: Illusions and Reality” edited by Galen Carpenter and Barbara Conry, 1998 by the Cato Institute. Especially “The Perils of Victory” by Susan Eisenhower. http://www.amazon.com/NATO-Enlargement-Ted-Galen-Carpenter/dp/1882577590
The Statement of Richard Palmer on Infiltration of Western Financial System
This is factual. The hearing took place on September 21, 1999. The statement has been reproduced faithfully. It is widely believed that very substantial assets have been transferred out of the collapsing Soviet Union and hidden in the West. How much, where this money are now and who controls them, we don’t know.
See, for example: http://democrats.financialservices.house.gov/banking/92199pal.shtml
On Financial Warfare
On June 23, 2006, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times published articles about the U.S. government sifting the international banking data, the data that has been viewed as private.
Illustrative sources:
“Treasury’s War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare” by Juan Zarate, 2013. http://www.amazon.com/Treasurys-War-Unleashing-Financial-Warfare-ebook/dp/B00DFM5C3U
The Wolfowitz Memorandum
The concepts of the memorandum have been reproduced faithfully. See, for example, http://work.colum.edu/~amiller/wolfowitz1992.htm.
Zbignew Brzezinski’s Book
The concepts of the book have been reproduced faithfully. See, for example, http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Chessboard-American-Geostrategic-Imperatives-ebook/dp/B005OSFX0A
Russian Poets and Writers
Anna Akhmatova: the pen name of Anna Gorenko (1889-1966), one of the most acclaimed Russian poets of the 20th century. Suffered greatly from the Stalinist terror: personally condemned and censored, while her husband was executed by the secret police and her son spent many years in the Gulag. She was in Leningrad during the most horrible part of the siege. In 1946, Andrei Zhdanov banned her poems and had her expelled from the writers’ union.
Olga Berggoltz: a Russian poetess that spent the whole blockade in Leningrad and became famous for working on the only functioning radio station of the city. Day in and day out, she read poetry and delivered news, urging the people to hold on to hope. Her husband died of starvation in 1942. She was arrested and imprisoned in 1938, released in 1939.
Marina Tsvetayeva: a renown Russian lyrical poetess. After living abroad, she came back to Russia in 1939. After her husband was executed and her daughter arrested, Tsvetayeva killed herself in 1941.
Osip Mandestam: a Russian poet and writer. Mandestam refused to conform to the Stalinist regime and at one point wrote and read a poem highly critical of Stalin. He was arrested multiple times and died in the Gulag in 1938.
Alexander Lebed
Popular Russian general and politician that placed third in the 1996 Russian presidential election. In 1991, during the communist putsch, he was ordered to send tanks against Boris Yeltsin and the parliament but Lebed refused to obey the order and the putsch collapsed. Lebed served as Russia’s Secretary of the Security Council until 1998, when he left Moscow. He opposed NATO’s expansion to Russia’s borders. Died in a helicopter crash in 2002.