Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"He announced a huge, unilateral reduction of forces in Europe. This paved the way for an agreement to be finalized. The CFE Treaty specified limits on troop numbers and weapons to be held by both NATO and the Warsaw Pact in Europe." [Furtado: 1001 Days] "The original Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) was negotiated and concluded during the last years of the Cold War and established comprehensive limits on key categories of conventional military equipment in Europe (from the Atlantic to the Urals) and mandated the destruction of excess weaponry. The treaty proposed equal limits for the two "groups of states-parties", the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Warsaw Pact. In 2007, Russia "suspended" its participation in the treaty, and on 10 March 2015, citing NATO's de facto breach of the Treaty, Russia formally announced it was "completely" halting its participation in it as of the next day." [Wikipedia] "If any single man ended some forty years of global cold war it was he." [Hobsbawm: Extremes, p. 479, 490]