Eastern Europe and the New Cold War
Year: 2024

Reflecting on the Yalta legacy forty years on, Z. Brzezinski recalled that: ‘Until Yalta, the key issue perplexing the wartime alliance was Poland, the key to control of Eastern Europe. Thereafter the issue has increasingly been Germany, the key to control over Western Europe’ (Brzezinski, 1984, p. 280). In some ways the Polish and the German questions still represent the connection in Soviet policies towards the two halves of Europe and thus also Moscow’s permanent dilemma in Eastern Europe is