Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NATO's objective has long been to reduce the number of tanks, guns and soldiers in the Warsaw Pact and thus diminish the threat of a Soviet-led armored blitzkrieg. Mikhail Gorbachev has rendered that nightmare less plausible with the stunning cutbacks and withdrawals that he announced at the United Nations last...
...Warsaw Pact has the bizarre distinction of being the only alliance in history that has occupied or invaded not enemy territory but that of its own member states: East Germany '53, Hungary '56, Czechoslovakia '68. The imposition of martial law in Poland in 1981 was nothing less than a Soviet- backed military coup d'etat within the Communist Party...
...Warsaw Pact is both the symbol and the instrument of Soviet domination over what used to be called the captive nations. Even if the forces of the pact were cut to one-third their current size, they could still "protect the gains of socialism" by "extending fraternal assistance" to a regime facing revolt or collapse...
...armored troop / carriers, 68,000 artillery pieces and 12,000 combat aircraft. The overriding goals of the talks will be to reduce the possibility of surprise attacks and large-scale offensive operations and to diminish the oppressive levels of firepower and military manpower. Optimally, both NATO and the Warsaw Pact will be restructured along defensive lines, with no country or alliance having the power to attack others. Acknowledges a Soviet expert on conventional arms: "This is the most complicated diplomatic task since the end of World...
...fact, the wound was self-inflicted. The champion of minorities and laborers turned out to be oddly forgiving about crimes against humanity -- provided that they were committed in the Workers' Paradise. To him, Stalin's infamous purges were a $ proper way to deal with "counter-revolutionary assassins." The pact between the U.S.S.R. and Nazi Germany was excused as a "defensive...