Peter Hitchens

@ClarkeMicah ↗

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @danelawdave . It would be naive in the extreme to imagine that Western protests would have made any difference. China didn't care what the West said about Tiananmen. And the Kremlin had been repeatedly permitted to crush revolts by NATO, in Berlin, Prague, Budapest etc. — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah Russia in 1989-91 had no choice. The writing was on the wall once the Berlin Wall fell. Regarding Ch… https://t.co/Couuz8PDJW

Posted Aug. 25, 2022

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 On the contrary, @danelawdave, the Soviet Politburo could have behaved like its Chinese counterparts, and massacred the protestors in Prague, Dresden, Leipzig etc. The fall of the berlin wall was an *effect* of Gorbachevian liberalisationk, not a cause of it. — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah Russia in 1989-91 had no choice. The writing was on the wall once the Berlin Wall fell. Regarding Ch… https://t.co/Couuz8PDJW

Posted Aug. 25, 2022

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@diykitepche You are beyond reason. Nobody said it was a treaty, just that it was a promise, repeatedly and clearly made. At first the Russophobes all claimed that this was a fabrication. Now that GWU has produced the written records, the Russophobes say it's not a treaty. Pah. — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah Not a treaty, not a memorandum - just diplomatic dispatches.

Posted Aug. 25, 2022