Talk:Sinatra Doctrine

Need to clarify who flees from where

 * The government of Hungary had opened its border with Austria in August 1989, dismantling the Iron Curtain on its border, and did nothing to prevent thousands of East Germans from fleeing to the West.

It reads as if the second part is still talking about Hungary.

Suggested rewrite: "and the East German government (or the Soviet Union) did nothing to prevent thousands of people fleeing from East Germany to the West. --Singkong2005 02:58, 11 January 2006 (UTC)


 * That's not quite what happened. I've rewritten that part of the article to make it clearer. -- ChrisO 23:04, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
 * "By the late 1980s, structural flaws within the Soviet system, growing economic problems, the rise of anti-communist sentiment and the effects of the Soviet–Afghan War made it increasingly impractical for the Soviet Union to impose its will on its neighbors." Это не совсем правда,СССР начал разваливаться после начала перестройки и раздела общесоюзного и республиканского государственного и партийного имущества,в период распада ссср,чтобыло вызвано экономическими проблемами в 70-е и 80-е годы Цйфыву (talk) 19:48, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

Clean-up
What, specifically, is in need of clean up for this article? Peter Grey 06:04, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

everywhere else i am reading that the sinatra doctrine occured before the polish government changed, so it was not a retrospective policy.

Valid commentary
Shevardnadze's speech and Gerasimov's memorable description of the new policy amounted to a rebuff of Honecker's appeals. The message was: "don't bother us with your problems, work them out yourselves." 71.80.205.14 (talk) 11:53, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Not coined in 1989
The National Review article that is given as the source of the claim that the phrase "Sinatra Doctrine" was coined in October 1989 itself makes no such claim. Nor should it; the phrase was coined in 1987 by Genadii Gerasimov.https://is.muni.cz/el/fss/podzim2010/MVZ182/J.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7F:5C0B:5B00:AC4F:FDB8:31A:BD34 (talk) 20:38, 13 March 2022 (UTC)


 * "By the late 1980s, structural flaws within the Soviet system, growing economic problems, the rise of anti-communist sentiment and the effects of the Soviet–Afghan War made it increasingly impractical for the Soviet Union to impose its will on its neighbors". This is not entirely true, the USSR began to fall apart after the start of perestroika and the division of the all-union and republican state and party ownership, during the collapse of the USSR, which caused economic problems in the 70s and 80s Цйфыву (talk) 19:50, 15 October 2022 (UTC)