Talk:Austrian Independence Treaty

Peace and foreign forces

 * Thus, Austria was the only state in the region which remained free of foreign forces and peaceful from 1945 until the developments in Eastern Europe of 1989.

--Philip Baird Shearer
 * Only state in the region which remained free of foreign forces: What about Switzerland?
 * Only state in the region to remain peaceful: All states west of the Iron curtain remained peaceful from 1945.