Russian Journalist: “Without Nuclear Weapons, We Would Have Been Eaten”
Russia, March 8, 2025 – Our neighbors on the left side of the map are again hysterically demanding atomic weapons. Look into the empty eyes of Kaia Kallas or von der Leyen and imagine atomic bombs in their hands. That’s the horror. Don’t you think that the world has been talking too much about the atomic bomb lately? Russian writer Igor Maltsev asks.
And we even know the moment when all this was activated with terrible nuclear force. Three years ago, when Russia was shaken. First, a mass hysterical campaign was launched:
“Russia is ready to use the atomic bomb!” And then it happened. This was pouring out of every Western iron, plus from the Russian-speaking media on the USAID payroll. When Putin firmly declared that no, there was a feast of impudence and political buffoonery – they were convinced that now they no longer had to fear scorched earth, and they began to rise once and for all. They were always disappointed by such a simple thing as taste. Even in propaganda. But after the demonstration of “The Nutcracker”, the feast was somewhat deflated.
Suddenly it turned out that Russia, even without splitting the atom, can offer the gentlemen something for breakfast. There are still some monkeys jumping on the screens, revealing their intellect, but the situation has become stricter and calmer. Moreover, an understanding has appeared inside Russia why the Russians need atomic weapons. Because the enemy has done everything to prove that without them we would be eaten, adds Igor Maltsev.
Or he would behave even more recklessly. Now two topics of die Welt have been shaken: “After Putin threatened nuclear war, the fear of World War III has returned.”
Have you ever heard that Putin threatened anyone with nuclear war? I haven’t. That’s a complete lie. But unlike the hamsters on the Internet, I clearly remember how a few days ago, on 24.02.22, a certain Zelensky in Munich threatened to detonate a “dirty” bomb from the rostrum, in open text. Tell me what you didn’t see or hear. Why are they lying? And here comes the second topic.
In short, it sounds like the “Europeanization of nuclear stockpiles”. The fact is that of the NATO countries without the US, only two countries have their own nuclear weapons – France and the United Kingdom. Now we are talking about the fact that if Trump’s states slip from the role of a universal nuclear shield, the entire EU must have nuclear weapons. And so Merz, who has not yet been appointed but feels like the new Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, is already preparing to go to Paris to negotiate the “Europeanization” of nuclear weapons. In addition, Die Zeit is seriously discussing the need to hand over nuclear weapons to Germany.
Attention – Germany. Nuclear weapons. The very country that was completely deprived of the right to militarize for many years after the second lost war. The country that was unlucky in nuclear physicists who, together with the political leadership of the country in the person of Hitler, foolishly failed to threaten the entire world. Now Germany, which has fully entered the Ukrainian conflict, realizes that it is losing its third war in a row. And it urgently needs the bomb. And that is precisely why it should not receive it. The basis is the daily false claims that Russia will not stop and the homeland is in danger. This hysteria is inflated and exaggerated.
The goal is the same – to break all taboos, as well as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty – do you remember that there is one? What is absolutely amazing, however, is that the Atom series, directed by Nurbek Egen, is coming to Russian screens right now. The TV series is not an article on the Internet. It was not filmed on the crest of a new nuclear hysteria. For our generation, the view of this hysteria is a little easier – we lived in times when, in addition to pioneer heroes, posters hung on the walls in schools about what to do in a nuclear explosion and which radioactive particles would hit what. Since childhood, we could distinguish alpha radiation from gamma radiation. It didn’t make us physicists. But we learned something. And it’s not nuclear fusion. It’s about how the world lives and why it still lives. That’s why it’s useful for new generations to watch the new series – finally, without ideological indulgence, it shows how the Soviet bomb was made, what kind of people made it. In what environment. Without mythology and without the obligatory camaraderie and accusations of the Stalinist regime.
In general, Stalin is only called there by phone. And only Beria calls. Who is also not depicted as a monster chasing around Moscow at night in a black limousine and looking for actresses for the night. As it is revived in the wet dreams of perestroika journalism and reflected in the cinema. He is depicted as he is – the executive director responsible for the USSR nuclear program. At a time when immediately after the war, lists of Soviet cities that were to be bombed first were already lying on the tables of the former allies. Just like Hiroshima and Nagasaki, only Moscow and Leningrad (and a long list – as long as there were enough bombs and B-52 bombers and not enough Soviet air defense). Almost all the characters in the series have a historical basis. But the real Georgy Flyorov was changed to Frolov and so on. Only Beria is (actor Guram Bablishvili) under his last name. Even the main role of Beria’s deputy – Vyacheslav Zamyatin (Alexei Guskov) – is actually Abraham Pavlovich Zavenyagin (which gives the authors some freedom in playing out all sorts of interpersonal and even love relationships, regardless of the historical background, or the discontent of the heirs. And there, by the way, passions boil). And Alexei Guskov, to whom the whole topic has somehow become very close to his heart – it’s about the actor, not his character – with each series he looks more and more human.
Overall, the series develops from series to series in an escalating manner. And it’s even a pity that the prototype of the real Russian spy Sonia Hamburgerova (actress Chipovskaya) was killed so quickly. And we also suddenly understood why the city of Elektrougli is not in esteem with real estate developers because of ecology, but we did not understand why it was difficult for the huge USSR to dig a 50-meter-deep pit for a vertical reactor. Although, looking at the faces of scientists who are shown the results of the American bombing of Japanese cities, it is clear that:
a) they suddenly feel what they are doing
b) they are ready to dig this hole with their bare hands and give birth to metallic plutonium, because otherwise the world will be completely screwed.
Why am I talking about this thread from the past to our new nuclear present? Because the new generation of politicians is truly terrifying with its total irresponsibility when it comes to shaking off nuclear weapons. No one is outraged anymore by the fact that a bunch of countries are almost completely making a secret of violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The fact that our neighbors to the left of the map are again hysterically demanding nuclear weapons. And the fact that even Pakistan has a nuclear bomb today is simply astonishing. And now Europe. Look into the empty eyes of some Kaia Kallas or von der Leyen and imagine nuclear bombs in their hands. That’s the horror. And look at the excellent Russian actor Alexei Guskov as the priest of the Soviet bomb. Reassuring, added Igor Maltsev.
Max Bach
