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The Warsaw Pact is the name commonly given to the treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, which was signed in Poland in 1955 and was officially called ‘The Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance’. Although this rather cute title sounds more like the agreement which you and your friend have about sending cards to each other on Valentine’s Day, it was actually a military treaty, which bound its signatories to come to the aid of the others, should any one of them be the victim of foreign aggression.
Nominally the Warsaw Pact was a response to a similar treaty made by the Western Allies in 1949 (the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, or NATO) as well as the re-militarization of West Germany in 1954, both of which posed a potential threat to the Eastern countries. Although it was stressed by all that the Warsaw Treaty was based on total equality of each nation and mutual non-interference in one another’s internal affairs, the Pact quickly became a powerful political tool for the Soviet Union to hold sway over its allies and harness the powers of their combined military. When Hungary tried to extricate themselves from the agreement in 1956, Soviet forces moved to crush the uprising; and, in 1968, Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia (with support from five other Pact members), after the Czech government began to exhibit ‘Imperialistic’ tendencies.
Following the diminishing power of the USSR in the 1980s and the eventual fall of Communism the treaty became redundant. The Warsaw Pact was officially dissolved in Prague in 1991, after successive governments withdrew their support of the treaty.
* This article on the Warsaw Pact is meant to be an informative introduction to Warsaw's history for travellers, and is not meant to be used for academic research. Please do not use it for any academic papers, but instead refer to published academic works and textbooks. * | | | |
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May.05.2008
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May.03.2008
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Apr.25.2008
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Apr.23.2008
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| | "wow, elise, you are a complete idiot. what does it mean?!? it means exactly what it says, moron - get your research information from books, not travel websites! duh!!" | not an idiot
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Apr.22.2008
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| | "this sucks!!!!!! what does this mean This article on the Warsaw Pact is meant to be an informative introduction to Warsaw's history for travellers, and is not meant to be used for academic research. Please do not use it for any academic papers, but instead refer to published academic works and textbooks. *
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Apr.21.2008
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Apr.15.2008
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Apr.13.2008
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| | "A very good introduction, especially since one would think that this would be a very biased page. However, I would like to make two points. One, i find it very insulting that people are inserting sex-ads into the commentary on this site, and two, during the post of a one 'aaron', he stated "...WW3..." and was later smacked for that. Please keep in mind there is such a thing as a typo.
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Apr.05.2008
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Mar.31.2008
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Mar.29.2008
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Mar.29.2008
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Mar.24.2008
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Mar.24.2008
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Mar.18.2008
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| | "This pact was a kind of competition between 2 superpowers. any action that one of them took, the other responded in a similar way. " | Marina
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Mar.11.2008
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Mar.11.2008
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Mar.03.2008
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| | "Thanks for the info! I doubt Russia, even if they are partnered with NATO today, would back us up. I mean, they wanted to use this Pact to further advance communism worldwide. In a capitalistic society, we would still be their enemies even if it has been some years since the Pact dissolved." | koki
United States
Mar.02.2008
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Mar.02.2008
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Jan.31.2008
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Jan.28.2008
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| | "Wow, how sad that these kids today are getting brainwashed at school! WW3?!? What WW3? There's no such thing and let's hope there never will be. It's also sad that children have forgotten the precious art of reading and researching their assignments, they've become so spoiled and lazy thanks to the internet and wikipedia. Don't get me wrong, both are great resources, but teachers should demand more from students - they definitely did in my day!" | Tom
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Jan.23.2008
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United States
Jan.23.2008
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| | "Wow, this reminds me of a game I play called World in Conflict. I have several questions: Would this 'Pact' help Poland if it were to engage in WW3? Is it still in effect today? PLEASE ANSWER or I will be forced to embarass myself in front of my History Class (this is a random question I thought about)" | aaron
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Jan.22.2008
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Jan.08.2008
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Jan.04.2008
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Jan.03.2008
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| | "Very nice brief. The Soviets definitely made this "Pact" their profound manipulative tool. When you go through the list of who presided over this treaty, ironically all were Soviet citizens despite the Pact's numerous members. It's also ironic that Soviet Union didn't know who to manage or grasp control over its own Republics, yet they tried to infulence foreign nations. It's no wonder the entire world to Communism as a big joke and a complete failure and the communist "Motherland" is nothing other than a rabit bitch..." | Killerkat74
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Dec.16.2007
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Dec.15.2007
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| | "This just doesn't explain the warsaw pact and it's background. U should tell how it all started and what were the causes that made some countries do that!!!!
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Dec.10.2007
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Dec.09.2007
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Dec.03.2007
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Dec.03.2007
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United Kingdom
Dec.02.2007
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| | "what is the purpose of the warsaw pact?" | esha
United States
Nov.28.2007
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Nov.26.2007
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Nov.18.2007
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Nov.14.2007
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Nov.14.2007
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| | "This was very helpful thanks greatly" | Harolynn
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Nov.11.2007
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| | "This was very helpful, but I still feel while its a brief description it should contain more about what led to its down fall. " | Holly
United States
Nov.11.2007
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| | "yeah this helped me a little bit.. but im still kinda confused.." | Alia
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Nov.05.2007
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| | "Causes??" | Michaela
United Kingdom
Oct.28.2007
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India
Oct.25.2007
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| | "it was primarily signed by countries under communist control" | brettzky
Canada
Oct.23.2007
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| | "I really dont care about all this stuff but i have 1 question.Was the warsaw pact for communist countries or democratic countries?" | chicken lover
United States
Oct.22.2007
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| | "i think that the warsaw pact was pointless and stupid why would they do that?" | dolly
United States
Oct.18.2007
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| | "not politically correct description of teh pact,just stupid." | Evgennia
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Sep.11.2007
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