EU needs to spend £60bn before Nato troops will be able to move quickly to Eastern front
Nato has been begging European nations to fix choke points for its so-called "battle map" for a decade. Now EU commissioners ...
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Soviet policy and the control of Eastern Europe
After World War Two a Cold War developed between the capitalist Western countries and the Communist countries of the Eastern Bloc. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin wanted a buffer zone of friendly ...
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The Cold War
The end of the Cold War The Communist government in Russia disintegrated due to economic pressures, the war in Afghanistan and revolt in Eastern Europe. Both Gorbachev and Reagan played major ...