RT News: Although Germany and Russia have developed into modern democracies with free-market systems, NATO still fears the revival of the former Nazi and Soviet states, says Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.
Rogozin, Russia’s former Permanent Representative to NATO, told officers of the Aerospace Forces in the restricted area of Krasnoznamensk that no matter what type of political system Russia has the western military bloc will not change their views.
“No matter what Russia may be – imperial, communist or democratic – they see us with the same eyes as they did in the previous centuries,” he said.
The same attitude applies to Germany, Rogozin says, the largest and most successful economy in the European Union.
“The relationship with Germany also remains complicated, because they still fear it,” he said. “The Germans have no more than battalions in the NATO army, which does not exist in fact but unites national forces for certain operations.”
The Germans are not allowed to form even a brigade for a particular operation. They still fear the Germans, he added.
This week, President Dmitry Medvedev appointed Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s envoy to NATO since 2008, deputy prime minister in charge of the defense complex.