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> So no agreements had previously been made then?

Nope.

Gorbachov himself said that no such agreements were ever made.

> https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017...

Impressions are not agreements, here's the reality of the matter from the president of the Soviet Union at the time himself.

> https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2014/11/06/did-nato-...

>> “The topic of ‘NATO expansion’ was not discussed at all, and it wasn’t brought up in those years. … Another issue we brought up was discussed: making sure that NATO’s military structures would not advance and that additional armed forces would not be deployed on the territory of the then-GDR after German reunification. Baker’s statement was made in that context… Everything that could have been and needed to be done to solidify that political obligation was done. And fulfilled.”