Everyone who wants peace is a RUSSIAN!
“Everyone who wants peace is a RUSSIAN!”
You are the fakest peacenik on Free Republic. No wonder you genuflect daily to fake Tsar Vlad Putin. Back in the day, the USSR would pay off peacenik movements in Europe. Especially in the early 1980s. The USSR paid the European peaceniks who did not want US missiles based on European soil. That counteracted the Roooskie’s SS-20 missiles, aimed at Europe.
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French President Giscard d’Estaing and German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt put pressure on President Jimmy Carter to counter the Soviet SS-20 nuclear threat by stationing American medium range missiles in Western Europe. In mid-December 1979, NATO adopted the “dual track” decision (negotiations with Moscow to remove the SS-20, or deployment of American missiles).
With the deterioration of U.S. – Soviet relations, President Reagan decided to station 108 “Pershing” missiles and 464 “Cruise” missiles on the territory of NATO allies Great Britain, West Germany, and Italy. When the American missiles started arriving in Europe in 1983, a considerable peace movement emerged in Europe (in part financed by the Kremlin).
This was mirrored by the “nuclear freeze” movement in the United States, protesting and trying to block the stationing of the missiles and the launching of a new arms race. The stationing of the missiles signaled Western firmness and eventually induced disarmament talks with the Soviets. Therefore, the Pershing and Cruise missiles have been nicknamed “the weapons that won the Cold War.”