... of NATO in exchange for full support of the US political aspirations. The common belief about the end of the Cold War was very strong in American political circles. Russia's weakness has been used largely by the US, which increased its manor in Europe to the greatest extent since the beginning of the Cold War. The last European country being included before 90s to NATO was Spain and ... Western observers and officials are justified in arguing that the U.S. government, and perhaps some of the other NATO governments, made a ' 'pledge'' to Gorbachev in 1990 that if the USSR conse...

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... that the last word in the postwar world would be behind them. The confidence of the United States in its absolute superiority in the postwar world has become stronger after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. The bombing of these cities was dedicated to the meeting of Heads of State at the Potsdam Conference. The new "super weapon", as demonstrated by the Americans, was to show the world that the US ... devaluating its achievements. Quite a different picture on the other side - the continuity, even in the event of prolonged power crisis in the US caused by the ...

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... based on citizens working together for common goals, in replacement of individual, selfish goals emphasized with in a democratic system of government. The novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell, is a satire portraying the dangers of any totalitarian government. It seeks to show how a society where all people live completely equal has not been, and cannot ever be achieved. Orwell is successful in establishing that ... any totalitarian system of government is equally as bad as another. He gets this theme across by tone, style, characterization, imagery, a fast paced plot, as well as his uniq...

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