Germany has been united and remains a full member of the Alliance and of European institutions. In the West, there have also been significant changes.The political division of Europe that was the source of the military confrontation of the Cold War period has thus been overcome. They have, in varying degrees, embraced and begun to implement policies aimed at achieving pluralistic democracy, the rule of law, respect for human rights and a market economy. All the countries that were formerly adversaries of NATO have dismantled the Warsaw Pact and rejected ideological hostility to the West. Soviet forces have left Hungary and Czechoslovakia and are due to complete their withdrawal from Poland and Germany by 1994. The three Baltic Republics have regained their independence. The Soviet Union and its Republics are undergoing radical change. The USSR's former satellites have fully recovered their sovereignty.
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