Question: When did the country the top-ranking Warsaw Pact operatives came from, despite it being headquartered in the country where A Generation is set, agree to a unified Germany inside NATO?

before creation of warsaw pact, fearing germany rearmed, czechoslovak leadership sought to create security pact with east germany and poland. these states protested strongly against re-militarization of west germany. the warsaw pact was primarily put in place as a consequence of the rearming of west germany inside nato. soviet leaders, as many european countries in both western and eastern side, feared germany being once again a military power as a direct threat and german militarism remained a fresh memory among soviets and eastern europeans. as soviet union had already bilateral treaties with all of its eastern satellites, the pact has been long considered 'superfluous', and because of the rushed way in which it was conceived, nato officials labeled it as a 'cardboard castle'. previously, in march 1954, the ussr, fearing the restoration of german militarism in west germany, requested admission to nato. <SEP> czechoslovakia, of all the east european countries, entered the postwar era with a relatively balanced social structure and an equitable distribution of resources. despite some poverty, overall it was a country of relatively well-off workers, small-scale producers, farmers, and a substantial middle class. nearly half the population was in the middle-income bracket. ironically, perhaps, it was balanced and relatively prosperous czechoslovakia that carried nationalization and income redistribution further than any other east european country. by the mid-1960s, the complaint was that leveling had gone too far. earning differentials between blue-collar and white-collar workers were lower than in any other country in eastern europe. further, equitable income distribution was combined in the late 1970s with relative prosperity. along with east germany and hungary, czechoslovakia enjoyed one of the highest standards of living of any of the warsaw pact countries through the 1980s. <SEP> The Warsaw Treaty's organization was two-fold: the Political Consultative Committee handled political matters, and the Combined Command of Pact Armed Forces controlled the assigned multi-national forces, with headquarters in Warsaw, Poland. Therefore, although ostensibly an international collective security alliance, the USSR dominated the Warsaw Treaty armed forces. Furthermore, the Supreme Commander of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization which commands and controls all the military forces of the member countries was also a First Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR, and the Chief of Combined Staff of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization was also a First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR. <SEP> Horst Teltschik, Kohl's foreign policy advisor, later recalled that Germany would have paid ``100 billion deutschmarks ''if the Soviets demanded it. The USSR did not make such great demands, however, with Gorbachev stating in February 1990 that`` The Germans must decide for themselves what path they choose to follow''. This removed the last significant roadblock to Germany being free to choose its international alignments, though Kohl made no secret that he intended for the reunified Germany to inherit West Germany's seats in NATO and the EC. In May 1990 he repeated his remark in the context of NATO membership while meeting Bush, amazing both the Americans and Germans. <SEP> The young protagonist, Stach (Tadeusz Łomnicki), is living in squalor on the outskirts of the city and carrying out wayward acts of theft and rebellion. After a friend is killed attempting to heist coal from a German supply train, he finds work as an apprentice at a furniture workshop, where he becomes involved in an underground communist resistance cell guided first by a friendly journeyman there who in turn introduces Stach to the beautiful Dorota (Urszula Modrzyńska). An outsider, Jasio Krone (Tadeusz Janczar), the temperamental son of an elderly veteran, is initially reluctant to join the struggle but finally commits himself, running relief operations in the Jewish ghetto during the uprising there. "A Generation" is set in Wola, a working-class section of Warsaw, in 1942 and tells the stories of two young men at odds with the Germans occupation of Poland.