> Whose people you cite also happen to emigrate to the West or at least from Russia. Gorbachev and Yazov never emigrated. They both died in Moscow in the early

> Whose people you cite also happen to emigrate to the West or at least from Russia. Gorbachev and Yazov never emigrated. They both died in Moscow in the early 2020s. > Or very interested in not looking dumb after it turned out that they were fooled. In other words, what they say happen to make them look good. This is unfounded speculation. Shevardnadze has explained in detail how this narrative is a misunderstanding (or in many cases, a willful misrepresentation) of the 4+2 treaty. The main issue in early 1990 was the details of German reunification. After East and West Germany became a single state again, would Germany leave NATO? Would NATO be present only in West Germany, or in former East Germany as well? This was the contemporary context, since a unified Germany would share a long border with the Warsaw Pact. Things often claimed about "NATO promises" are actually right there, written down in articles 4 and 5 of the treaty. The treaty prohibited the stationing of non-German forces and military exercises in East Germany until the complete withdrawal of Soviet troops. Both Gorbachev and Shevardnadze have said that NATO kept its promises and the agreement was concluded when the last Soviet forces left Germany in 1994. The treaty can be found here, scroll down for links to PDFs in multiple languages: https://treaties.un.org/Pages/showDetails.aspx?objid=08000002800b8042&clang=_en https://treaties.un.org/Pages/showDetails.aspx?objid=0800000...