Thinking this is more bad history. I was thinking maybe it was a really old map, which would explain why Korea, etc. are still colored red. But if you look closely Germany is unified; there's no west and east germany. Plus Greece is green and Turkey is red, even though they joined NATO at the same time (1952). So I doubt this map is from a textbook or anything, someone probably made it in like 5 minutes just to illustrate a quick point.
Thinking this is more bad history. I was thinking maybe it was a really old map, which would explain why Korea, etc. are still colored red. But if you look closely Germany is unified; there's no west and east germany. Plus Greece is green and Turkey is red, even though they joined NATO at the same time (1952). So I doubt this map is from a textbook or anything, someone probably made it in like 5 minutes just to illustrate a quick point.
It looks like recent borders. USSR is split up, looks like Yugoslavia doesn't exist, and unified Germany.