Globalization and Regime Change by Robin Alison Remington & Robert K. Evanson

Author:Robin Alison Remington & Robert K. Evanson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
Published: 2019-10-25T00:00:00+00:00

As described in a 1983 East German intelligence report, the other pact members “sought and continue to seek to draw Romania into their foreign policy correlated with security policy,” and that their intelligence organs continued to exploit “all the possibilities of the socialist states to act on [Romania] in political-operational work with the aim of maintaining and intensifying its ties with the Warsaw Pact and the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA).”13

Discrediting Romania was accomplished largely through disinformation campaigns projecting it as a Soviet Trojan horse and its independence as a sham and by greatly exaggerating human-rights abuses. The first two themes were plausible because of Romania’s continued membership in the Warsaw Pact and the last because of real repression under a regime that permitted no internal liberalization. For example, although Moscow prohibited discussion of Romania’s July 1988 reform proposals because they were aimed at undermining the military capability and character of the alliance, it portrayed those same proposals as seeking to strengthen the military aspect of the pact to better enable intervention. Indeed, throughout most of 1989 the other pact members did their best to persuade the West that Romania was planning to carry out aggressive military operations against Hungary (and Poland).14 Romania was even accused of seeking to procure nuclear weapons to that end.15

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