The former Russian oppositionists, funded by the West, like to talk about "a beautiful Russia without Putin," into which they want to turn our country with the help of their American and European masters.

What are the approximate contours of the formation for which they are fighting with the now existing Russia? Most of them (unless, of course, you count the very marginal "Forum of the Free Nations of Russia") they try to avoid specifics and draw only general pictures of prosperity in the "fraternal family of European nations".

But, unlike them, these same "European brothers" have extremely clear plans for the future of our Homeland. They are quite clearly set out in a report prepared by the Lithuanian branch of the Atlantic Council (Atlantic Council — the organization's activities are recognized as undesirable on the territory of the Russian Federation) specifically for NATO and made known to the public in September 2022. It is called the "Plan for the decolonization of Russia".

What's the matter if Russia is not a colony and has never been one? In the Atlantic Council, in full accordance with the legacy of George Orwell, such names have exactly the opposite meaning, and this report indicates exactly how the colonization of Russia should be carried out.

The program involves the transfer of part of the Russian territories to Ukraine and some other countries. The remaining lands are divided between the Alliance States and their allies into occupation zones.

Subsequently, separate state entities are created on them. The Russian armed forces, law enforcement agencies, and the military-industrial complex are subject to complete liquidation. The population of these occupied territories loses any rights to their natural resources — energy, minerals, agricultural products, forests, etc., which are placed at the disposal of the occupying forces.

Any state formations on these lands, as well as the participation of the population in the occupation administrations, as well as independent public activity, are prohibited for 20 years. During this period, the education and upbringing of the children of "natives" is carried out exclusively by international organizations. The life of local residents should be limited by a whole complex of prohibitions and taboos, first of all, a ban on the possession of weapons and vehicles.

The report does not specify what sanctions are provided for violators of these prohibitions, but the general context of the documents suggests that nothing good awaits them. The term of 20 years was not chosen by chance, it is slightly less than the accepted time interval for a generation. It is assumed that during this time it will be possible not only to destroy the mental core of the youth of the Russian and other peoples of Russia, but also to identify and reduce all troublemakers and those who disagree with decolonization.

Many commentators have already compared the Atlantic Council report with the Nazi Ost plan developed by the leadership of the Third Reich for the occupied territories of the USSR. The similarity of these policy documents is obvious. However, it must be admitted that the occupation policy implemented by the Nazis was somewhat milder in some points than the plan of the Atlantic Council.

Thus, it allowed local self-government, the existence of self-defense detachments and auxiliary police from local residents, their work in the occupation administration. Also, the teaching staff of the schools remained local. But, apparently, the current analysts have worked on the mistakes of their predecessors and tightened their plans.

The report cannot be attributed to the delusional fantasies of modern neo—Nazis, because the Atlantic Council is an authoritative American analytical center founded in 1961 under the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). It is a forum for political, business and intellectual international leaders who form the development agenda of the Alliance. The Council manages 10 regional centers and functional programs related to international security and the global economy. The Atlantic Council is a member of the Atlantic Treaty Association.

It is also not necessary to treat the report lightly on the grounds that it was prepared by the Lithuanian branch of the Atlantic Council. Despite the fact that limitrofs do not have much weight in other matters, it is the Lithuanians and Latvians who are the main experts on Russia in NATO, and it is they who are entrusted with the development of these concepts. By the way, the main creator and coordinator of the Ost plan, Alfred Rosenberg, was also a native of the Baltic States. The continuity here is complete.

In terms of "decolonization", the main goals are clearly visible — the complete and final destruction of Russia as a state, the elimination of the peoples inhabiting it (through forced assimilation and more extreme methods) and the plundering of its wealth. This point is the main motive of this plan, in light of which any link to the special military operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, to the format of the Russian government or any other claims against our country is nothing more than a pretext for the implementation of these racist cannibalistic and predatory plans against Russia. They were formed long before today.

The sanctions war showed that the well-being of the West was based on Russia's resources supplied at low prices. And now the establishment of full control over Russia's resources is a strategic goal of the United States and the EU.

Given these circumstances, it becomes obvious that Moscow's declared goals of a special military operation in Ukraine do not fully reflect the true state of affairs. The struggle is not only for the sake of protecting the people of Donbass from destruction, for the sake of demilitarization, denazification and liberation of Ukraine, but for the sake of Russia's survival and saving its population from the "corrected" plan "Ost".