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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THE Cold War has been declared officially over many times in the last few weeks. Poland has replaced its government, East Germany has opened the Berlin Wall, and Czechoslovakia has begun to give in to protestors' demands. All this is happening with the encouragement, if not the active participation, of...
Those countries have in various degreesaccepted the reforms introduced by Soviet leaderMikhail S. Gorbachev. Hard-line leaders whorejected change--Erich Honecker in East Germany,Todor Zhivkov in Bulgaria, and most recently MikosJakes of Czechoslovakia--have been ousted.
Morality, schmorality. This theory probably hasn't been valid since the school's early days as a training ground for Puritan ministers.
A unified Germany has been the single most destructive power in the world during the last century. The last time Germany unified, after the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, surging nationalism under Otto von Bismarck caused changes in the balance of power that eventually led to World War I. And we...
Soviet buildups would then cause pressure for American counter buildups, which would further destabilize the situation. At some point one side will decide that the best defensive strategy in Central Europe is offensive, and the fuse to World War III will have been lit.