what's the problem with allowing them to move to the old Warsaw Pact boundaries? exempting the GDR if you insist.
Why not let them settle Manhattan then?
He would prefer it if they did, if you see.
anyway, this is a total lie. I have no interest either way in Russian territorial claims. it does bear remembering that Gorbachev was promised that NATO would not expand to the east. we can just as easily use ag's "where does it stop?" logic in reverse... first it was East Germany, then Poland and the Czechs, then Romania, when will they come to Petersburg and Moscow? imperial powers will always use these paranoiac justifications for why they can't give an inch, with varying degrees of legitimacy.
Gorbachev says he was promised. Not the same thing.
