April Fool’s Day: Former communist Warsaw Pact member Albania and the former the Yugoslav Socialist Republic of Croatia join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.  This is perceived by the Russian Federated Republic as a further threat to its national security.

       NOTE: In 1990 President Mikhail Gorbachev, of the Soviet Union, provisionally approved the merger between the socialist Federal Republic of (West) Germany and the formerly communist Democratic Republic of (East) Germany with assurances from Republican (fascist/socialist) President George Herbert “Read my lips, no new taxes” Walker Bush that NATO would expand no further to the east.

       [added 10/31/2021]