COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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In December, 1988, Gorbachev announced in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly that by 1991 he intended to pull Soviet tanks and troops out of East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
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Gorbachev’s Glasnost policy played a role
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In poland they protested solidarity and in hungary and germany the cut of the wall to the other side.
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All the answers are correct
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Detailed explanation-1: -The PZPR was disbanded on 30 January 1990, but Wałęsa could be elected as president only eleven months later. The Warsaw Pact was dissolved on 1 July 1991 and the Soviet Union ceased to exist in December 1991.
Detailed explanation-2: -The “reason” given was that Russia had to come to the aid of its “blood brothers, ” the Ukrainians and Byelorussians, who were trapped in territory that had been illegally annexed by Poland. Now Poland was squeezed from West and East-trapped between two behemoths.
Detailed explanation-3: -Why did Poland, Hungary, and East Germany join the Warsaw Pact? They were Soviet satellites that had little choice.
Detailed explanation-4: -Having known as the Russian force occupying Poland after WWII, but why Poland was not annexed? Simple, because based of Russia’s political interest, its goal was to create a buffer zone in the East, using it as fortress against any threat that could come from the Western part of Europe.