Tag: place d’armes

As in 1939, Kremlin Said Mulling ‘Preventive Occupation’ of the Baltic States

May 12, 2015

Window on Eurasia

Staunton, May 12 – People of decency and good will around the world have been horrified by Vladimir Putin’s defense this week of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which made Hitler and Stalin allies, opened the way to World War II, and allowed the Soviet Union to occupy Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, portions of Poland and Bessarabia […]

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Putin Making Belarus Into Base For Attacking Kyiv, Minsk Analyst Says

December 16, 2014

Window on Eurasia

Staunton, December 15 – Even as Moscow appears to be reducing its military actions in southeastern Ukraine, a “reduction” that is at least in part a disinformation campaign, Putin is making Belarus into a base for attacking Kyiv. The appearance of more Russian “little green men” in Gomel last week prompted some Ukrainians to ask […]

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