Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LOOKING only to the events of this past year, numerous images claim indelible places in our memory and imagination. Millions marched in China's capital for political reform this spring before they gathered in East Germany. Leaders in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria have followed the Soviet Union's lead step-by-step in opening up totalitarian regimes...
...wouldn't say so. In 1986 the Soviet Union outlined and defined the main principles of its foreign policy: demilitarization, the absence of force in relations between states, and democratization. Ideology should not influence an improvement or a worsening in relations between states. We started to put these principles into practice. This was noticed in the U.S. Americans are pragmatic. They never believe words, only deeds...
...Someone had to be the first to start things going. When the U.S. rejected negotiations on naval forces, the Soviet Union made a big concession and said it was willing to wait and hold negotiations on strategic weapons and armed forces in Europe. Little is said about this nowadays, but it gave a major impetus to the negotiations. If you consider this to be a concession, it was, but if it were not for this concession we would still be marching in place...
...this doesn't imply that the Soviet Union has dropped the idea of negotiations about naval forces. Today we say that the time has come. Maybe not tomorrow but, within a month, three months or half a year's time, we should begin. It was no coincidence that President Gorbachev raised that issue ((in Finland)). The world press has not mentioned this. There has been no reaction...
...naval problem secondary. He doesn't want these negotiations, and he is not the only one. As for other concessions, they were made on both sides. If someone believes that we are eliminating more intermediate-range missiles than the U.S. and that this is a defeat for the Soviet Union, let them. We do not consider that we have lost anything from the point of view of security. We have no intention of riding side by side, as in a horse race. If we see goodwill on our partner's side, we take this into consideration, but we believe that...