1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe - Updated Edition by Sarotte Mary Elise

Author:Sarotte, Mary Elise [Sarotte, Mary Elise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Europe, Modern, Politics, War, 20th Century, History, Germany, General
ISBN: 9780691163710
Google: jmuYDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0691163715
Goodreads: 21981705
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009-09-14T07:00:00+00:00

Fig. 5.3. Gorbachev (center right) presides over the final signing of the 2 + 4

accord in Moscow by the six representatives of the countries involved

(from left to right, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet

Union, France, the GDR, and the FRG) on September 12, 1990. Courtesy

of Vitaly Armand/AFP/Getty Images.

In short, in the second half of 1990, Kohl got the building permits that he

needed to move the prefabricated structures that had served West Germany well—

its alliance, constitution, currency, and market economy—eastward to replace the

ruins of Eastern socialism. The two halves of Germany carried out an economic

merger in July 1990, and then completed political and legal union on the

following October 3.

Neither Bush nor Gorbachev attended the celebration in Berlin, as they had

discussed in Helsinki. 224 The American had other priorities and the Russian did not

find it wise to take part in the celebrations, given public opinion at home. While

their absence dimmed the wattage of the celebrations—Kohl could not invite other

world leaders as a result, because doing so would have drawn questions about

Bush’s and Gorbachev’s absence from the ranks—it had no legal impact on the

proceedings. The division of Germany was past. Kohl got his happy ending, at

least for a while.

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