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Subject: What Was Old Is Now New Again
SYSOP    10/26/2016 5:47:47 AM
 
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trenchsol       10/26/2016 12:44:43 PM
Population in some East European countries was strongly opposed to Warsaw Pact membership, or, respectively Soviet Union membership. The examples are Poland, former Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Baltic States. Some others might be more complacent, they might have joined NATO simply because it was more formidable and because Warsaw Pact collapsed. Some of those countries are predominantly Christian Orthodox, just like Russia. It think Russian leadership is very much aware of that and they are trying to shake those countries up with stick and carrot combination. Even those who are NATO members at the moment. I suspect that South Eastern European flank might be particularly shaky, and Ukraine stands in the way of direct contact between Russia and those countries.
 
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