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To: SunkenCiv

That sounds like what people wanted us to think. Certainly handing over control of the portions of Silesia and Prussia to USSR-dominated Poland (as happened anyway) would have had to been corrected.

Either way, West Germany had quite the rapprochement with the USSR. Remember Willy Brandt? He was merely continuing something that Adenauer had started.


18 posted on 10/14/2012 4:17:10 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Brandt had a completely infiltrated subversive administration; and Adenauer rejected the division of Germany and cut relations with any nation (except the Soviets) which recognized EG, so they had little to do with each other (other than real or claimed anti-Nazi sentiments). Brandt wanted to surrender as much as necessary in order to reunite Germany.

The EEC “Common Market” paralleled A’s view that Germany had to integrate with the rest of Europe. Europe has been trying to integrate the USSR / neo-Soviet Russia into its economic system since the 1950s, and that integration effort had a lot to do with the economic development of the post-war (particularly late) Soviet era.

The US engineered a leak of tainted technology to the USSR for its construction of that huge long natural gas pipeline from Siberia to western Europe, and the explosions from that brilliant piece of sabotage could be seen from orbit. The OPEC countries viewed w European hydrocarbon purchases from the USSR/Russia as a long-term threat, and beginning early in the 21st c started calculating their crude prices to keep crude price-stable in Euros though still officially priced in US dollars.


22 posted on 10/14/2012 4:34:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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