CRISIS IN EASTERN EUROPE Where It Will Lead - Gene H Hogberg - February 1981

Gene H Hogberg

Workers in Poland are threatening to unravel Soviet dominance over the political affairs of Eastern Europe. Will Moscow have to make a deal with the West to preserve its interests? If so, the political map of Europe will be altered beyond recognition-with grave consequences for Britain and the United States. Not since the late Marshal Josip Broz Tito wrested independence For Yugoslavia in 1948 has the Soviet Union been faced with such a stern challenge in Europe. At stake is Moscow's entire buffer zone that it acquired by force in the aftermath of the Second World War. Communist Party officials in East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania are deeply disturbed over the stunning economic and political concessions made by Poland's communist government to that country's newly independent labor movement. They fear that Poland's whiff of freedom will blow their way. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library