According to the standard accounts, the Cold War ended on both sides in 1991, when the Soviet Union dissolved, and its communism ended, and its Warsaw Pact (the military alliance that the USSR had created in response to America’s having created the NATO military alliance against the Soviet..…

If the Russians knew they could charge the Baltic states and East Germany for their leaving the USSR and the Warsaw Pact umpteen billions, NATO would have never have moved East. ..…

The collapse of the USSR in December 1991 killed the pan-European project. NATO incorporated the former Eastern Bloc in stages, and then the former Soviet republics in the Baltic (see map, NATO goes on growing, in this issue). ..…

In the wake of United States moves,   NATO, the alliance under US command, now has no more borders. In Europe USSR and Yugoslavia it is actually incorporating Ukraine. ..…

Incorporating the countries of Warsaw Pact and Baltic republics that were once part of USSR, NATO has reached the borders of Russian Federation. ..…

Russia’s foreign policy is driven by nationalism, reasserting its role on the world stage and traditional geographic spheres, and breaking the hostile NATO encirclement. . The USSR – A complex and contradictory history . The USSR, the world’s first socialist experiment, made..…

We strive for a better relationship with Russia.' . NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg waves after he addressed a joint meeting of the U.S. ..…

Soviet Navy, like Russian Navy today, was built for single purpose to prevent NATO attack on USSR from the sea. ..…

Martyanov writes, Soviet Navy, like Russian Navy today, was built for single purpose to prevent NATO attack on USSR from the sea. ..…

Soviet Navy, like Russian Navy today, was built for single purpose to prevent NATO attack on USSR from the sea. ..…

If the United States really had ended its side of the Cold war after the 1991 termination of the USSR, and of its communism, and of its Warsaw Pact military alliance that had mirrored America’s NATO alliance, then the arrangement which has been described here would have been instituted..…

This also explains, to quote a few contemporary examples, why Western European and US leaders had no qualms about making a commitment to the USSR in 1989-1990 that NATO would “not move one inch to the East”, in exchange for Soviet acceptance that the new, reunited Germany would be part..…

After absorbing into NATO Moscow’s old Eastern European satellites and the three Baltic states formerly part of the USSR, the U.S. calculated that it could use the pro-Western 2003 “Rose Revolution” in Georgia and the the following year’s “Orange Revolution” in Ukraine to..…

The long period in which Euro-American contradictions were reconciled under NATO’s umbrella seems to be coming to an end. The collapse of the USSR cancelled out the need for “protection from the communist threat.” . ..…

Finlandization came to mean a foreign policy that in no way challenged or antagonized the USSR. So now here’s Finland rolling back that policy and joining NATO in this massive military exercise to stop nonexistent Russian aggression. . ..…

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg accused Moscow on Tuesday of breaching Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty. ..…

Instead, a triumphant NATO has pitched its tents inside the borders of the old USSR, and a surly and resentful Russia has responded with brinkmanship and confrontation. . ..…

Senior EU officials say the regime imposed against Russia over Ukraine and Syria will remain in place.. ..…

Yet this Cold War and Iron Curtain propaganda managed to make the western world believe that it is under a vital threat of a USSR invasion day-in-day-out, and that Europe with NATO must be ready to fend off any imaginary attack from the Soviet Union. ..…

The signing of the treaty looked natural against the backdrop of NATO's promises of no expansion to the east. ... As we know, NATO began expanding, and the USSR ceased to exist as a state. . ..…

To those of us raised in Truman era, and NATO was needed to keep Stalin's armies from Channel, the threat seemed infinitely more serious. Perhaps it's time to contrast USSR of Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev with Russia of Vladimir Putin.. ..…

Was it the U.S. provocatively moving NATO into Russia’s front yard after the collapse of the USSR? ..…

., Western countries, NATO, the US, USSR, etc.). For the purposes of the present short overview of Yugoslav strategic thinking, it will suffice to focus on this document as a representative example. . ..…

It was a frank surrender, which, after Gorbachev's betrayal, ended with the collapse of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact. . The USA then took Europe under its occupation and started spreading obvious lies about NATO - the alliance that serves as a unit of the American army commanded by an..…

In his eyes, we took advantage of the dissolution of the USSR to move NATO into Eastern Europe and the Baltic republics. ..…

More AWACS surveillance flights and a stronger presence in the Eastern Baltic sea, regular air patrol over Baltic states, and a boost of the number of troops in Romania are also on NATO’s agenda. Russia legitimately views NATO’s actions as a strategy of encirclement. ..…