These treaties were part of a breakthrough series of international agreements which were seen by some as formalizing the Cold War's division of Europe, while others saw this as the start of the process that led to the end of the Cold War.
条约突破了一系列国际协定，被一些人视为冷战时期欧洲的正式分裂，而另一些人则认为这是导致冷战结束的过程之开始。