Let him be a dictator, as long as he’s not a communist. NATO origin stories you don’t know
On 12 March 25 years ago, the Czech Republic became a NATO member country. Was it a good thing? Seznam Zprávy has prepared a mini-series on the history of the Alliance, its expansion, including a discussion of the war in Ukraine. And the meaning of Czech membership. “Without Norway’s Spitsbergen, Portugal’s Azores, Denmark’s Greenland, Iceland and Ireland, Europe would not have been able to receive military aid in the proper quantities at all,” said US diplomat Charles Bohlen during discussions about NATO’s founding.
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Hitler’s general before Paul also headed the NATO military committee
Recently, presidential candidate Petr Pavel has been trying to dispel doubts about his past with the communist military unit. According to his supporters, Pavel, as the late chairman of the NATO military committee, had to pass the most stringent security clearances. However, the media has now pointed out that former Wehrmacht General Adolf Heusinger, who drew up plans to invade Poland and the Soviet Union, was vetted for the same post.
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