The demythologized version is also a history of lies, betrayal, deception and aggression, but the liar, the aggressor, is not primarily Russia, but America. It is the history of a promise so historically broken that it laid the foundation of a new cold war.
https://original.antiwar.com/Ted_Snider/2019/09/08/demythologizing-the-roots-of-the-new-cold-war/