Naval Postgraduate School
The bear and the foxes understanding Soviet policy in the Warsaw Pact.
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Eastern Europe has been the infant terrible of international
politics in the modern era. Conflict within and about this
region has precipitated two devastating world wars and continues
to threaten the stability of the international system. In the
postwar era, the Soviet Union has exerted its dominance in
Eastern Europe in a manner which the Tsars would have surely
envied. It is this dominance and the instruments through which
it is achieved, that this paper is concerned. Born of the East-West Cold War struggle, the Warsaw Pact
has evolved, to symbolize the calculated Soviet subjugation of
Eastern Europe in the political and military spheres. This
unwanted partnership, imposed by the Soviets on their reluctant
allies, is far from the alliance Soviet spokesmen would
claim. It is rather an instrument of a much broader integrationist
program design to entrap and keep Eastern Europe in
the socialist web.
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