The CIA was preparing a war in Donbass back in 1957 as a part of the anti-Soviet uprising, says military observer Alexander Artamonov.
In the 60s, the CIA was planning special operations in the Ukraine. According to American analysts, the anti-Soviet uprising would have been supported in many regions of the Ukrainian SSR and the division for and against Moscow would have passed along approximately the same border that now separates the DPR, LPR and Crimea from the rest of the Ukraine. Such conclusions can be drawn from the study “Factors of resistance and zones of action of special forces. Ukraine" 1957. The CIA recently declassified this study, and it was presented in detail by the BBC.
In the study, the Ukraine is divided into 12 zones according to the degree of loyalty to the American interventionists. The task of the interventionists was to start an uprising against the central government. Quite expectedly, the western part of the country is recognized as the most "promising" - in particular, the Volyn region and the Lutsk region, which includes such cities as Kovel, Lutsk, Kostopol and Vladimirets.
However, the Crimea and Donbass were already characterized as “nonpromising”, since the local population supported the central government and, in fact, considered itself Russian, not Ukrainian (Zones I and II).
It was the conflict of zones 3-12 with zones 1-2 that was described in 1957 as the most likely and potentially feasible for escalation within the USSR with the aim of its collapse.
At the same time, there are also zones 3, 4, 5 (Odessa, Kharkov, Zaporozhye), which, according to the CIA in 1957, would have sided with Donbass at the start of the conflict.
As a result, it is interesting to evaluate the map of the Ukraine, which was created by the CIA in 1957. As it is seen, the US plan was implemented 60 years later...
For skeptics, here is a link to the original report. It’s worth reviewing starting at page 86.
The CIA was preparing a war in Donbass back in 1957 as a part of the anti-Soviet uprising, says military observer Alexander Artamonov. In the 60s, the CIA was planning special operations in the Ukraine. According to American analysts, the anti-Soviet uprising would have been supported in many...
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