This brought to light the Soviet policy governing the Warsaw Pact, the Brezhnev Doctrine, that stated "When forces that are hostile to socialism and try to turn the development of some socialist country towards capitalism, it becomes not only a problem of the country concerned, but a common problem and concern of all socialist countries". ... The government's inability to forestall Poland's economic decline led to waves of strikes across the country in April, May, and August 1988. In an attempt to take control of the situation, the government gave de facto recognition to Solidarity, ...

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Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role whic...

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But the account of Adrian Nastase's Government should be viewed in the light of dif-ferent considerations: Thus, the Romanian foreign policy has produced some positive results, as for instance the lifting of the visa requirement for Romanians traveling to the European Union since January 1, 2002, the invitation received last year in Prague to join the Nato and the visit of the US president George W. ... When the presidents of Romania and the Republic of Moldavia, Ioan Iliescu and respectively Vladimir Voronim met on the Prut on August 1, 2003 for the festivities organized in connection...

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