Andreotti e Gorbaciov uomini della distensione

Abstract

Andreotti and Gorbachev in the perestroika years were “friends, almost allies”; meanwhile, the Italian leader was acting as an ally of the United States but with autonomy. The paper deals, moreover, with Washington’s impulse to the German reunification process and Soviet confidence in the role of the OECD. When he announced the ‘ten points’, Kohl was mistakenly convinced of Moscow’s assent; however, for the Kremlin, preventing reunification would only have been possible by force.