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Posted on 05/15/2007 11:06:04 AM PDT by lizol
Warsaw Pact saved the world from nuclear world war
15.05.2007
Many tend to demonize the Warsaw Pact nowadays claiming that it cast evil shadow over “the free world.” However, the Pact became the only possible response against the aggressive actions of the then US administration when its efforts resulted in Western Germany’s incorporation in NATO. The union, chaired by the USSR, allowed to keep the fragile balance in the world.
On May 14, 1955 governmental delegations of eight countries (the USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania) signed the Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance. The treaty, which lasted for 35 years, became known in history as the Warsaw Pact.
One may have different approaches to that event. The geopolitical situation in the world has experienced enormous changes since that time. Many specialists say nowadays that the Soviet Union created the block which cast the evil shadow over the free world threatening the whole humanity. Generally, many bear a negative image of the Warsaw Pact, which in fact maintained the balance of forces in Europe for many years. The Pact became a response to aggressive foreign policies which the United States ran during the post-war years.
The collapse of Nazi Germany and the reorganization of Europe led to the opposition between the two world leaders – the USA and the USSR. The USA had nuclear weapons at its disposal, whereas the USSR could boast of the world's most powerful army which liberated Europe from fascism and set up its bases on the borders of the Western world. Each of the two countries could try to use their advantages against each other.
The trigger was pulled after Winston Churchill delivered his landmark "Iron Curtain" speech to an audience at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. Churchill frankly said during the speech that the USA could dictate its conditions to the world owing to its possession of nuclear weapons. The British diplomacy had only one prime goal: to set the leading superpowers against each other and gain the maximum profit from it. Churchill succeeded perfectly at that.
The idea of the global supremacy based on the possession of nuclear weapons became the key subject of Washington’s international policies. The USA developed dozens of plans in the 1940s to use A-bombs against the USSR. The plans basically differed for the amount of A-bombs and targets. In 1946 the USA planned to drop 20-30 bombs on the Soviet Union and level 20 cities. In 1949 the United States outlined 3,261 targets.
Washington acted so according to the doctrine of massive retaliation, which is based on the unrestricted use of nuclear arms in case of a military conflict. However, as US Defense Secretary Brown said in 1977, the USA could use the tactics of preventive strike too. In addition to A-bombs Washington needed European armies to conduct ground operations against the socialist camp. On April 4, 1949, twelve countries signed the North Atlantic Treaty to defend themselves against the threat of communist aggression. In other words, they legally set up a political and military block against the USSR.
It is worthy of note that Moscow’s response to the establishment of NATO was quite original. The Soviet government offered the USA, England and France, as well as its former allies, to consider an opportunity of USSR’s participation in NATO. Washington found itself at a loss for it implied that NATO was absolutely useless.
In return, the USA initiated the NATO membership process for the Federative Republic of Germany, which automatically aggravated the political situation in the post-war Europe. Western Germany obtained a possibility to form a multi-million strong army outfitted with modern-day arms and equipment. The Cold War became a reality.
The remilitarization of Germany and the powerful armed alliance demanded quick measures in response. The Treaty on the establishment of United Armed Forces and United Command was signed in Warsaw on May 14, 1955. Two super-powerful groups stood up against each other.
There were no objective reasons for the collapse of the Warsaw Pact. Most likely, it became history because of dogmatism and lack of foresight of the Soviet administration that could not understand internal processes taking place in Eastern Europe. In addition, the Soviet government contributed to critical processes in the socialist camp, which eventually destroyed the system of collective security of the Eastern block.
The Pravda hasn’t changed much from Soviet days.
/s-on
Look kids! This is what Pravda used to be, er, is like, errr.....
And Hiter was a nice guy..... /s-off
You can say that again.
Hooray! Pravda! The answer to Sheryl Crow’s toilet paper shortage!!! Rosie O.D. could even wipe her bigggg ass, now; it might take an entire issue, though.
The problem is, that today Pravda (at least its internet edition) is not a communist paper anymore.
It’s a regular Russian tabloid.
Not even historians would be interested in this. Asserting something didn’t happen because is grounds for a zero on a midterm paper.
Newspeak!
The British diplomacy had only one prime goal: to set the leading superpowers against each other and gain the maximum profit from it. Churchill succeeded perfectly at that.
This only gets a 6.0 out of 10 on the conspiracy evaluation scale. It loses a mandatory 2 points for not including the Jooooooos in the worldwide conspiracy.
Pravda. LOL.
“There is no Pravda in Izvestia, and there is no Izvestia in Pravda” (”There is no truth in News, and there is no news in Truth”)
I like the official name of the Warsaw Pact: The Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance.
So, in 1956 the Hungarian people - in the spirit of “friendship” - asked for the Soviet Union’s “cooperation” in rendering “mutual assistance” to rid Hungary of those pesky freedom fighters.
By the way, this article in Pravda is not the random ramblings of an unreconstructed Bolshevik. It was almost surely placed there by the Putin government as a trial balloon to signal its interest in reconstituting the Warsaw Pact, with members drawn from many of the former Soviet “republics.”
IIRC, “Pravda” means “Truth” in Russian. Communist party rag or tabloid, the newspaper either doesn’t know much about the history of the 20th century or is still functioning as a propaganda organ for the nomenclatura. Either way, very little “truth” in this article. Just a lot of “imaginative interpretation” of a shallow pond of facts.
Yeah...Right
The Berlin Blockade (June 24, 1948 to May 11, 1949) became one of the first major crises of the new Cold War, when the Soviets blocked American, British, and French railroad and street access to their land in western Berlin.
Nah... just a coincidence...
“This only gets a 6.0 out of 10 on the conspiracy evaluation scale. It loses a mandatory 2 points for not including the Jooooooos in the worldwide conspiracy.”
Something’s not right here - how could the writer of this gibberish possibly have left out the Jooooos? He’s lost all credibility with me.
The Warsaw Pact collapsed, and yet, they weren’t incinerated by NATO.
Wonder why that is?
I guess there was really only one threat to the world back then, and it wasn’t NATO.
I see they’re still pasting new pages in the history books.
I think Putin and the KGB should proudly replace the hammer and sickle--as they have wet dreams of doing.
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