Word: annã
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...access, through trade, to Western capital and technology, which they hoped would rescue their economies in time to prevent serious social upheavals at home. The East bloc undertook this accommodation with full knowledge of the risk it faced in what West German Chancellor Willy Brandt calls Wandel Durch Ann??herung?change through coming close. Actually, change is precisely what they hope to hold off; Moscow's chief aim at Helsinki is to legitimize the status quo in Eastern Europe. But now that they are dealing with the West, the Soviet-bloc regimes can no longer plausibly justify themselves by pointing...