NATO: transcript and history

This structure is highly ambiguousreputation among our compatriots. In the Soviet period, it was associated exclusively with war crimes and the bloodstained arms of its soldiers. Today such a view is also partly present, but nevertheless, in general, it has softened. In modern society, there are different attitudes about NATO. But what exactly is NATO? Decoding of this concept as it sounds? We will understand this, take a look at the prerequisites for the emergence of this association and the basic principles of its activities.

NATO. Explanation of the concept

Actually, it is not surprising that in the media of the Sovietthis union was represented in such a light. After all, even its appearance had an initially anti-Soviet character. NATO - the transcript of which reads as follows: North Atlantic Treaty Organization - was created as a regional bloc to protect the states of Europe and America from Soviet interference. The leadership of the Union, which did not consider itself an aggressor and had several other ideas about instigators and perpetrators of the unfolding cold war, of course, took it as direct aggression against itself. Thus, NATO (the interpretation of the term) means the unification of the countries of the North Atlantic into a military bloc.

Prerequisites for the emergence

At the final stage of the Second World War,the political circles of the Western allies begin to talk about the possibility that the next Soviet Union might become their next rival. Indeed, the overall victory did not bring them closer, but, on the contrary, divided yesterday's allies. In the absence of a single goal (and the threat in the face of Hitler's Germany forced to forget all the differences), the east and west became more and more rapidly becoming principled rivals.

Today's historians associate a formal beginningthe Cold War with the famous speech of Winston Churchill in Fulton. The beginning of the Cold War was already evident in the establishment of pro-socialist regimes in a number of states in eastern and central Europe.

The peak of disagreement was manifested during the Berlincrisis. The threat of a military clash forced the Western states to rally in the face of a "communist threat". And in April 1949, NATO emerged. The organization was founded by signing a treaty of mutual assistance of twelve states: Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, France, Canada, Britain and the USA. Later, many other states joined them, including the former Soviet republics: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. NATO, whose abbreviation meant protection, its main goal announced mutual guarantees of the security and freedom of all its members in North America and Europe. In order to achieve its goals, the organization uses its own political influence, as well as military capabilities. By the way, six years later the socialist states created their own alliance, but this is not the subject of this article.