Playing the German card. (Soviet-German Joint Declaration)

From: National Review | Date: July 14, 1989 | Copyright information

WRAPPED IN PLATITUDES about the rights of individuals as the "central element" of politics and the "right of peoples to self-determination"-principles still, comprehensively denied by Gorbachev's USSRthe Soviet-German Joint Declaration, signed at the outset of Gorbachev's campaign swing through West Germany, envisions a dramatic expansion of economic ties between the two countries. The Bonn government will actually guarantee German investments in the Soviet Union-thereby transferr...

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