15 years since Russian pull out of Eastern Germany

Discussion in 'Postwar' started by Owen, Aug 31, 2009.

  1. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Thought you might like to read this.

    What has become of Western promises? - RT

    Gorbachov promised to withdraw Russian forces only in the case that NATO wouldn’t expand to the east. But this promise was broken.

    “The Soviet Foreign Ministry insisted that all forces must pull out of Germany, including the NATO forces. It would have been logical. But this did not happen,” ex-Soviet ministerial counsel in GDR, Igor Maksimychev, points out. “Gorbachev had a soft policy and did not demand anything. If only they had put the NATO non-expansion condition on paper, then many modern-day tensions could have been avoided.”
     
  2. MLW

    MLW Senior Member

    You can't talk that article seriously - it states "At the time, the German Democratic Republic was the Soviet Union’s primary line of defense in Europe. This is how the 500,000-strong contingent in East Germany could have been best described." The Russian Forces in Germany could be described as a "primary line of defense" if you believe an offensive force is the best form of defense. Revisionist garbage.
     

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