Word: sovietica
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sovietica. Moscow's major overture was to invite the Western European countries to join the East Bloc in a European Security Conference, which the Russians hope to convene in Helsinki during the first half of 1970. The Soviets say somewhat grudgingly that they have "no objection" to the U.S. and Canada attending. For Moscow, the primary purpose of the conference would be to formalize the status quo in Europe by guaranteeing existing borders. The long-range Soviet goal may well be to convince the Europeans that an American military presence is no longer needed on the Continent and thereby...
Some Western critics fear that the Russian plan would replace the Pax Americana that was established in Western Europe after World War II with a Pax Sovietica maintained by the Red Army. Even so, many Western Europeans, including some NATO foreign ministers, see nothing wrong in at least gauging Soviet intentions by attending the conference...