There was no promise of NATO expansion. Gorbachev himself had said there was no such promise.
This is categorically not true. Former ambassador to the Soviet Union James Matlock confirmed that the US gave assurances to Gorbachev when he was General Secretary that if Germany united NATO would not move further eastward. Here is the interview from 1994 (11 minutes 46 seconds
Your comment reeks of Russian propaganda.
My comment was deleted because people think anything that isn’t blindly Russiophobic is propaganda.
I left Reddit to get away from this hive mind bullshit and outrageous censorship.