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Monday, April 14, 2014

Cold War Propaganda: Russia’s “Secret” Military Bases in the Western Hemisphere

Viktor Leonov in the Port of HavanaThe propaganda hype regarding Russia’s creation of military bases in Latin American and the Caribbean is not dying down.

At the instigation of ‘cold war’ centres in the US, lies about ‘secret’ Russian naval and air force bases operating in Nicaragua, Venezuela and even Argentina regularly appear in the media.

More often than not, these types of reports are accompanied by photographs of Tu-160 (‘White Swan’) and Tu-160MS strategic bombers, the nuclear-powered battlecruiser Petr Velikiy (‘Peter the Great’), and the large anti-submarine destroyer Admiral Chabanenko, which laid the foundations for guest visits by Russia’s naval and air forces to the American continent in 2008.

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