The Black Sea: A Recent History Through Romania’s Eyes
摘要
For most of the Cold War era, the Black Sea was a Soviet lake. In 1952 however, Turkey joined NATO to counterbalance the Soviet Union (USSR) and its Warsaw Pact on the Black Sea and the United States (US) placed nuclear weapons in Turkey. Until 1989, the geopolitical situation of the region would not change: Bulgaria and Romania were aligned with the USSR; Soviet domination stretched eastward across the South Caucasus to the borders of the Middle East and westward to the borders of Turkey and Greece.