Gorbachev was promised NATO would not extend east, but unexpected event

Researchers from the National Security Archive based on the University “George Washington”, which specializes in obtaining key information declassified by the government, have brought together 30 crucial documents that clearly show some senior Western officials promising Gorbachev that NATO would not expand eastward, reports “RT” Transmission Periscope. Some have been available to the public for several years, others have been discovered as a result of the study's Freedom of Information requirements.

Through 1990, both Germany and the leaders of the four winners of World War II, USSR, U.S.A., Great Britain and France negotiated a reunification treaty signed by the six parties in Moscow in September, capitalist states tried to soften Moscow's agreement fears that a reunited state in Europe would pose a threat to the Soviet Union.

In February, George HE Bush's state secretary, James Baker, assured his Soviet counterpart, Edward Shevardadze, that in a Europe of the Cold War, and after that NATO would no longer be combating the “less a military organisation, much more political, there would be no need for independence. ”

However, Baker promised the Shevardadze that the <x0... Iron directly does not guarantee that the jurisdiction of NATO or forces will not move eastward”. The same day in Moscow, he finely told the Soviet Secretary General that the alliance would not move “an inch east of”.

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The next day, February 10, 1990, Helmut Kohl, the future Chancellor of a German union, repeated the same opinion, even though they did not agree with other issues.

“We believe that NATO should not expand its scope of activity. We have to find a reasonable resolution. I understand exactly the security interests of the Soviet Union and understand that you, the Secretary General and the Soviet Leadership will have to explain clearly what is happening to the Soviet people “, Kohl said.

Later that month, negotiating with Czech President Vaclav Havel himself, President George H. Uh. Bush said that “we will not behave wrongly by saying: We win, you lose”.

French President Socialist Francois Mitterand went further and said he did not favour a German union joining NATO, something he shared openly with the Soviet leader.

Finally, the Soviets moved their forces from Germany, and later from other Eastern European countries, without any hostile incidents. Among those going home was KGB officer Vladimir Putin, who was stationed in Dresden between 1985 and 1990.

The promise lasted only until 1997, however, when Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary were invited to the alliance. In total, 13 Eastern European states have become NATO members since then.

However, senior NATO and senior officials have continued to claim that there is no promise. None of the non-environment insurance was included in any document on the treaty, which means they were only words.

NATO's <x0). There is no record of any such decision being made by NATO. Personal guarantees, by NATO leaders, cannot replace the alliance's consensus and do not constitute a formal NATO agreement,”, the alliance said in its official commentary on its website.

But the weight of evidence discovered now suggests that these attitudes are unfair in good and suspicious in the worst./Periscopi/