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What did "socialist brotherhood in arms" mean under the conditions of the East-West conflict? In order to be able to classify the role of the Warsaw Pact's armed forces in military history, they must be viewed from three sides: As the armed power of a state, they shaped national path dependency; as part of the Eastern military alliance, they were integrated into alliance structures and confronted with the Soviet claim to leadership; finally, bilateral relations affected the respective military.
A joint look at the armed forces of the GDR and Romania from the 1950s to the end of the Cold War clearly reveals this triangle of relations. German and Romanian historians examine, on the one hand, the contacts of leading military leaders at the political level, and on the other, the participation of both sides in Warsaw Pact manoeuvres. In addition, the interest is focused on military aid in Africa and the Middle East. The bottom line is that it is clear how much the National People's Army and the Armata Romana depended on the political conjuncture. The political claim to socialist solidarity in the sense of proletarian internationalism was not infrequently in tension with the national interests of the individual states. The military-historical analyses are supplemented by the presentation of selected German and Romanian documents.
A joint look at the armed forces of the GDR and Romania from the 1950s to the end of the Cold War clearly reveals this triangle of relations. German and Romanian historians examine, on the one hand, the contacts of leading military leaders at the political level, and on the other, the participation of both sides in Warsaw Pact manoeuvres. In addition, the interest is focused on military aid in Africa and the Middle East. The bottom line is that it is clear how much the National People's Army and the Armata Romana depended on the political conjuncture. The political claim to socialist solidarity in the sense of proletarian internationalism was not infrequently in tension with the national interests of the individual states. The military-historical analyses are supplemented by the presentation of selected German and Romanian documents.
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- Books (first-hand)
- Author
- Echternkamp, Jörg (Hrsg.)
- Title
- Sozialistische Waffenbrüder? Rumänien und die DDR im Warschauer Pakt
- Details
- Paperback. 8 bw-photos, appendix with 15 text documents, partly in Romanian, some tables. 242 pp.
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