Release of Warsaw Pact documents likely to anger Russians

bernhard · 11-28-2005, 01:42 PM

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On Friday, Minister of Defense Radoslaw Sikorski, signed an order that will give researchers access to most of the Warsaw Pact's top-secret archives, including decisions related to the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia.

The document will make almost all the 1,700 volumes of files available through the state Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) early next year.

Led by the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact was signed in the Polish capital in 1955 as the Eastern bloc's answer to NATO. The Warsaw Pact was dissolved in 1991 after the fall of communism.

"We will be able to see now how the Warsaw Pact worked and how Poland was made to be dependent on its big neighbor [Soviet Union]," Sikorski said.

Sikorski showed a 1979 map detailing potential Warsaw Pact targets in case of a nuclear war with NATO — among them Brussels, Belgium, and the German cities of Munich and Cologne. Poland was to be sacrified in a nuclear war with the West.

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bernhard · 11-29-2005, 01:47 PM

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Sikorski showed a 1979 map detailing potential Warsaw Pact targets in case of a nuclear war with NATO — among them Brussels, Belgium, and the German cities of Munich and Cologne. Poland was to be sacrified in a nuclear war with the West.

even if its past, I think its quite effraying

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