1 agos 1975 anni - Helsinki Agreement

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WHY IT SUPPORTED THE DETENTE
Given the Soviet attitude towards human rights, Basket 3 was clearly the most controversial of the agreement. The West hoped that it would undermine Soviet control in the satellite states, and organisations were set up to monitor Soviet action against the principles set up in the Helsinki Agreement. However, as you will have seen from the CNN video, the Soviets considered Baskets 1 and 2 as the most important aspects of the Agreement and believed that Basket 3 would be of little significance. As you will see below, this was a miscalculation.




WHY IT CAUSED THE END
There was also disillusionment with the Soviet Union's attitude towards the Helsinki Agreement. The Soviets had believed that Basket 3 of the agreement was meaningless as the US could not enforce human rights within the USSR. However, increasingly the US under Jimmy Carter tried to link economic deals to improved human rights; for example for allowing new trading agreements only if the Soviet Union would allow Soviet Jews to emigrate. Such 'linkage' was deeply resented by the USSR.

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