The 25th anniversary of beginning NATO coalition bombing the territory of sovereign Yugoslavia: historical trace and impact on modern geopolitics
The G.O.R.K.I. Centre of SPbU will host a meeting dedicated to the tragic events of the North Atlantic Alliance’s aggression against Yugoslavia.
From March to June 1999, 2.3 thousand cruise missiles and 14 thousand bombs were rained down on the small sovereign state in the centre of Europe, killing more than two thousand civilians of Yugoslavia, including children.
For a quarter of a century, attempts by the collective West to change historical memory and to present the act of aggression against the sovereign State of Yugoslavia as a peacekeeping operation, to forget the victims of the bombing and to shift the blame for fuelling wars in the Balkans to the Serbian people have not ceased.
Those events echo shrilly today. The impunity of the NATO strikes against Yugoslavia has created preconditions for new acts of force around the world under the guise of the struggle for democratic values.
Karin Kneissl was an eyewitness to the tragic 78 days of bombing Yugoslavia in 1999. At the meeting at the G.O.R.K.I. Centre of SPbU she will give a lecture on the historical development of the Balkan region and the impact of the events of 25 years ago on the current geopolitical situation.
The event will also include a private screening of a documentary film dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the NATO coalition bombing of Yugoslavia, which was filmed with the participation of leading public and political figures from Russia and abroad.