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2024-02-13 11:30:32 UTC - HELPFUL
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NATO did not promise the Soviet Union it won't expand eastwards, only that it won't deploy “non-German NATO forces" in East Germany“. https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/115204.htm https://www.techarp.com/facts/nato-expand-warsaw-pact-facts/ https://www.brookings.edu/articles/did-nato-promise-not-to-enlarge-gorbachev-says-no/ https://www.rferl.org/a/nato-expansion-russia-mislead/31263602.html Mikhail Gorbachev confirmed in a 2014 interview that NATO expansion was never discussed, or brought up in those years. https://www.rbth.com/international/2014/10/16/mikhail_gorbachev_i_am_against_all_walls_40673.html https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early
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