ABSTRACT

This chapter provides answers for the following question: What changes have taken place in the entire European situation when the European Security Conference has been closed a year and what do these changes signify? The stark facts of the situation point to one conclusion: with contention between the two superpowers in Europe growing fiercer and Soviet social-imperialism stepping up its arms expansion and war preparations, Europe has become more unstable, and the threat facing the West European countries more serious. This shows that the Final Act cooked up at the European Security Conference in Helsinki a year ago is a mere scrap of paper and the so-called European security conference is in reality a European insecurity conference. In short, in the year following the European Security Conference, Soviet social-imperialism's threat to West European countries has grown unmistakably. The Soviet Union has been loudly singing a "detente" lullaby while posing its threat of expansion to Western Europe over the past year.