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The term usually refers to various policy proposals during the Cold War which attempted to defuse tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union , largely because of the risk of any superpower conflict to escalate to Nuclear War . An example of one-sided disengagement might be when Stalin decided to end Soviet support for the Communist Guerilla s in Greece during the Greek Civil War . The more important candidates for disengagement were where US and Soviet forces faced each other directly such as in Germany and Austria . The Austrian State Treaty is an example of formal, multilateral, superpower disengagement which left Austria as neutral for the duration of the Cold War, with Austria staying out of the Warsaw Pact , NATO , and the European Economic Community . The 1952 Stalin Note is perhaps the most controversial proposal of superpower disengagement from Germany. |
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