Tag: East bloc

Helsinki Final Act at 39 – Soviet Diplomacy’s ‘Fatal Triumph’

August 3, 2014

Staunton, August 1 – Thirty-nine years ago today, the leaders of 35 governments signed the Helsinki Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, an event that Soviet officials viewed as a triumph but one that in fact put in motion forces that triggered the end of communism and the disintegration of […]