Word: pacts
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...been looking down the barrel of our enemy's gun, and Hitler had given us a chance to get out of the way. That was our justification for the pact, and it's still the way I see it today...
...communists, antifascists, people who were philosophically opposed to Hitler -- suddenly joining forces with him in this war. Stalin thought he was buying time. The % treaty wouldn't save us from a German attack -- it would only give us a chance to catch our breath. The day he signed the pact with Ribbentrop, Stalin said, "Well, for the time being at least, we've deceived Hitler" -- showing he understood the inevitability...
...ounce of political sense should buy the idea that we were caught flat-footed by a treacherous surprise assault. Yet to this day some of Stalin's lackeys are trying to whitewash his failure to prepare us adequately by saying Hitler fooled us by breaking the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact...
Last May, Fisher ran a workshop for nearly 50 diplomats from Warsaw Pact and NATO countries. And next week, Fisher will coordinate a five-day course for diplomats in West Germany...
...would doubt that the Cold War as it was once waged is over. The Warsaw Pact is crumbling, and the totalitarian governments set up by the Soviets in Eastern Europe have given way to democratic movements. For Americans to be hostile to the Russians solely because we were taught so in our youths would be foolish now. I do not advocate throwing caution to the winds; the Soviets still possess awesome military might, being the only power that could totally annihilate the United States. However, to maintain our former hard-line stances would be impractical...