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Researcher at the Center for Security Studies at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Moscow, Europe Publishing House, 2006, pp 112
The decision to create NATO's secret armies was taken in the middle of the 20th century, more than 50 years ago. At that time, Europe, after freeing from the Nazi dictatorship, realized that it might find itself under the heel of a Communist totalitarian dictatorship. After the defeat of the Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union was establishing control in one European country after another. The fear of Soviet occupation forced Western countries to start training subversive guerilla brigades.
