The End of the Cold War. 1985-1991
318 THE END OF THE COLD WAR as irreversible; and Zhivkov kept in mind how Khrushchëv’s reforms had resulted in national revolt i ...
EASTERN EUROPE: PERPLEXITY AND PROTEST 319 can take an undesirable turn. If this question is raised from below, we’ll suffer a w ...
320 THE END OF THE COLD WAR Gorbachëv retorted that Ceauşescu had courted a financial linkage with the West and now, through no ...
EASTERN EUROPE: PERPLEXITY AND PROTEST 321 President to say: ‘Mr Gorbachëv, tear down this wall!’ Although the phrase was not a ...
322 THE END OF THE COLD WAR Poland. The Papacy sharpened Jaruzelski’s difficulties. John Paul II’s pastoral visit by coincidence ...
EASTERN EUROPE: PERPLEXITY AND PROTEST 323 corporations preferred to establish their operations in Western Europe.^38 He had no ...
324 THE END OF THE COLD WAR Husák confined himself to ‘cloudy’ generalities, prompting one of his listeners to whisper to his ne ...
EASTERN EUROPE: PERPLEXITY AND PROTEST 325 ‘principles of equality and non-interference’. He stressed that the USSR expected all ...
326 THE END OF THE COLD WAR Events in Poland had a momentum of their own. Jaruzelski’s sup- pression of Solidarity failed to pre ...
EASTERN EUROPE: PERPLEXITY AND PROTEST 327 Western financial aid became available to Eastern Europe? Should the Politburo encour ...
328 THE END OF THE COLD WAR continued to bail out communism, the NATO countries would only have to foot an increased bill for th ...
29. THE LEAVING OF AFGHANISTAN Strange as it may seem, questions about East Germany, Hungary and even Poland cropped up little i ...
330 THE END OF THE COLD WAR Reagan could see no advantage for America in easing the USSR’s difficulties since he had no guarante ...
THE LEAVING OF AFGHANISTAN 331 ‘a friendly, neutral country’. He wanted to repatriate half of the Soviet forces in 1987 and the ...
332 THE END OF THE COLD WAR The Politburo listened to what Shevardnadze had to say on 21 Jan- uary. He spoke of the ‘good impres ...
THE LEAVING OF AFGHANISTAN 333 sarcastic remark that the Politburo still had the option of sending another 200,000 troops into t ...
334 THE END OF THE COLD WAR Shultz thought this unrealistic after all that had happened in the coun- try.^26 But he and the rest ...
THE LEAVING OF AFGHANISTAN 335 nadze rejected this suggestion but failed to provide an alternative that Shultz would accept.^31 ...
336 THE END OF THE COLD WAR General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar attended. Soviet military disengage- ment was finally agreed. On 18 ...
THE LEAVING OF AFGHANISTAN 337 ensued. Kryuchkov stood up for Shevardnadze whereas Chebrikov sided with Gorbachëv in demanding c ...
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