Color revolutions, Made in USA.

By Guillermo Alvarado

Russia's recognition of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, the sending of troops to guarantee peace in those territories and the special military operation against Ukrainian arsenals, full of Western weapons, raised a wave of furious declarations.

Heads of state or government, leaders of international organizations and various personalities tear their clothes and harshly condemn Moscow and President Vladimir Putin, but very few remember at this moment which snake laid the egg from which this crisis was born.

With the purpose of refreshing the memory I will devote several works to this background, located by many in the events of Maidan Square, Kiev, in 2014 when Victor Yanukovych was overthrown, but which were gestated almost since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Between 2000 and 2005 several former Soviet countries, but which remained close to the Russian Federation, underwent so-called "color revolutions", apparently popular and non-violent, which were part of a project drawn up in the United States and implemented with the help of the European Union.

The aim was to install pro-American regimes in Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, among others.

Thus in Serbia the government of Slobodan Milosevic was overthrown and an international training site was created there, the Center for Nonviolent Action Strategies and Implementation, CANVAS for short, which I spoke about in comments published on February 12 and 15, 2019.

I said then that "CANVAS was founded in Belgrade in 2004 after analyzing and synthesizing all the experience gathered during the riots that led to the overthrow of President Milosevic in 2000..."

One of its instructors, Ivan Marovic, told Foreign Policy magazine that "(color) revolutions are often seen as spontaneous.... It looks as if people just took to the streets. But it is the result of months or years of preparation."

"If you plan carefully, by the time they start, it's all over in a matter of weeks," he added.

On the subject of money, I specified that: "Where do the resources to maintain this center come from? Not from Serbia, of course, nor from the European Union. The hand that rocks the cradle, my friends, is that of the National Endowment for Democracy, that is to say the CIA or, more precisely, the United States".

Many "leaders" recruited in Europe and elsewhere, including Latin America, were indoctrinated there to favor Washington's hegemonic interests and it is precisely one of the cradles where the events that led to Russia's energetic action to defend its borders and its security were hatched. I will continue with the subject.