our argument in 1984 was that the berlin wall would fall and teh west should marry peace with russia in every way possible - ending the way the cold war and had caused a worldwide map of countries being forced to choose one of 2 sides
the west (particularly the us phobia of communism) failed to engage russia in time for gorbachev's position to be sustainable - arguably poland was the bravest country through all this and indeed the best of allies britain has had in the region - the uk owes poland a lot more than it may be able to give
there are many ex-soviet countries that are being left out of a world of conectig opportunitoes while the Europena union redesigns itself - the UK should try to be a freidns to all without siding with any non-peaceful actrivists -again we wonder what ever happened to the integrity of bbc world service
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