Word: baltic
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...this was very much to our advantage. I want to acknowledge this straightforwardly. The access we gained to the Baltic Sea significantly improved our strategic situation because it deprived the Western powers of a foothold that they might have used against us in the future...
...that in a postcolonial world, confederal states require divorce before reconciliation. The Baltic republics might have chosen this path, had Gorbachev allowed them to go their own way. After all, it is a natural Baltic interest to retain economic, communications and even military links with the country that will for decades remain the greatest power in that part of the world. The Balts would give up many attributes of sovereignty in return for a flag and an anthem...
...themselves, to protect their rights, to protect their culture and way of living and aspirations. In South Africa, we should move in the direction of various democracies, to provide political systems for the various peoples ((and)) ethnic groups. What we now see in Eastern Europe, for instance in the Baltic states, the urge toward self-government in their own territories, confirms our attitude...
Nationalist fervor is most intense in the Western Ukraine, in territories largely annexed -- along with the Baltic states -- by the Soviet Union under the terms of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In republican elections last March, supporters of the Rukh movement, an umbrella organization for a host of proindependence groups, won a landslide victory in the western section. The radicals did not win a majority of seats in the republic's parliament, but their bloc of more than 100 is sizable enough to prevent the government in Kiev from getting a quorum on key votes...
...they are trying. Hardly was the Wall down when a trickle of East Berliners and Leipzigers and Dresdeners appeared on the Champs Elysees and the Via Veneto. Long confined to holidays within the socialist bloc -- beaches on the Black Sea or the chilly waters of the Baltic -- thousands of Easterners will no doubt soon set out for venues of the dolce vita, the requisite deutsche marks in their pockets...