Word: ares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A. We proceed from the position that the foreign policy of the Soviet Union is based on demilitarization. The use of force is ruled out, except when someone confronts the Soviet Union from a position of strength. Some Soviets may approve of the changes in Hungary and Poland, others not...
Q. Let us put it this way. If the U.S., as you say, pursues a policy of strength and, at the same time, key Warsaw Pact members are changing their view of the world, including their relationship to the Soviet Union, that must have some impact on military thinking?
A. You are posing a hypothetical question. As of now this has not happened. In Poland and Hungary certain internal processes are going on, but these countries have made clear that they will remain members of the Warsaw Pact, with all their obligations. We have dropped the idea of attaching...
A. How the troops were deployed in Tbilisi was the decision of the Georgian government. It was not the decision of the military. It is, of course, another matter that everything ended so badly. But there are other areas, like Azerbaijan, where the armed forces are preventing events that result...
Q. Since you are now a People's Deputy, a political topic: after a life of discipline, you are a member of a parliament, where discipline is not the word to describe what goes on.