Horst Teltschik: Germany never promised Russia that NATO would not expand eastward (English @

Описание: Horst Teltschik was an adviser to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl during the collapse of the Soviet Union. At the end of the Cold War, Germany never promised Russia that NATO would not expand eastward, he says.
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