>> One interview with the dead Gorbachev is a source, but assurances were given by Western leaders to other people in Russia as well which are documented. To w

>> One interview with the dead Gorbachev is a source, but assurances were given by Western leaders to other people in Russia as well which are documented. To whom, documented where? Gorbachev's foreign minister Shevardnadze also gave a lengthy interview denying all those claims when the narrative first surfaced. https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/interview-with-eduard-shevardnadze-we-couldn-t-believe-that-the-warsaw-pact-could-be-dissolved-a-663595.html https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/interview-with-e... As he points out, NATO membership of Warsaw Pact countries and even then-occupied parts of the USSR (Baltics) was beyond comprehension. There were no such discussions inside the Soviet leadership, within Warsaw Pact, nor with NATO, because they couldn't have imagined that Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union itself would cease to exist in a very short time. It's an anachronistic hoax that doesn't fit into the timeline of events.