Article: From "nyet" to "don't know." (foreign policy in post-communist Russia)

Andrei Gromyko, the former Soviet Foreign Minister, was famous for one word: "Nyet." And for years, that word summarized Soviet foreign policy, which consisted of opposing the Western world in everything, everywhere. This position made Soviet diplomacy easy, since it was not necessary to construct complicated political combinations or to develop subtle political moves. Only a confrontational stand against the United States and Western Europe was necessary. This caused many political crises --big ones involving Korea, Berlin, the Caribbean, and Afghanistan, and a multitude of smaller ones. The United States and the Soviet Union demonstrated compatibility only during ...

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