Das Helsinki -Abkommen war ein Meisterwerk der europäischen Diplomatie. Fünfzig Jahre später brauchen wir seinen Geist mehr denn je
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/31/helsinki-accord-masterpiece-european-diplomacy-fifty-years-need-spirit-more-ever
Von ATWK01
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The signatories list was insanely stacked:
* Helmut Schmidt, Erich Honecker, Gerald Ford, Bruno Kreisky, Todor Zhivkov, Pierre Trudeau, Urho Kekkonen, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Harold Wilson, János Kádár, Aldo Moro, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Olof Palme, Gustáv Husák, Leonid Brezhnev and Josip Broz Tito… just to name a few.
It’s basically a who’s-who of the Cold War.
Also, this accord coinciding with the Portuguese revolution might’ve saved us from becoming a Soviet satellite state (which NATO would never have tolerated – there were plans for an invasion coming from Spain) or a NATO-supported far-right dictatorship.
The Soviets told our Communist Party „chill tf out, we are not destroying détente for fucking Portugal“. So instead of trying to create socialism, the PCP focused on solidifying the social-democratic gains in the constitution. Maoists and other hardliners like Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho never forgave them for it.
What spirit ffs ?
For Italy Aldo Moro signed the accord.
3 years later the red brigades would kidnap and murder him
It only worked because the ruling cohort of Soviet leaders got too old to engage in big conflicts. They were already all in ther 70s if not more and in those times, with that level of healthcare etc. it was A LOT. They just wanted to keep ruling without any major storms. Unfortunately, now Putin has access to the best healthcare (and plastic surgery/botox injections) of the 21st century…. :-(((
(Afghanistan was a cock up of course but not a big conflict for the USSR).
OSCE has _potential_
The same OSCE that employed Russian military as observers.
The same OSCE that refused to acknowledge any russian presence in Ukraine during Donbas war?
And the proposal is that Ukraine will become neutral, because it worked really great in 2014.
What a fucking joke.
As in Helsinki, Sweden…
Sorry but no. You can’t be „civil” when russia lead agression war against Ukraine. Europe need to make sure that this sick empire will die, and that they will never have any way to rebuild their military potential.
Even soviet union in 70s was better than modern imperialist, orthodox russia.