Then there will be Czechia, Hungary, and Bulgaria. Everyone will go back. The Warsaw Pact countries are, as they say, a ...

Alarmed by these moves and what appeared to be the beginning of the end of Czechoslovak Communism, several fellow Warsaw Pact nations made their objections known in a July communiqué, saying the ...

Seeing this as an existential threat, the Soviet Union united the countries under its own sphere of influence in Eastern Europe into a defensive alliance known as the Warsaw Pact. These two ...

In April 1955, the National Guard’s 400,000-strong force responded to an unprecedented activation exercise. Operation ...

Essayists from former Warsaw Pact nations reflect on the changing use and meaning of a seemingly banal object - unlocking a story about how life in their country was altered by the 1989 revolutions ...

TASS/. Many experts believe that the NATO bloc should have been dissolved after the USSR collapsed and the Warsaw Pact was terminated, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a meeting with ...

In May 1955, the Warsaw Pact was established – a military alliance which was controlled by the USSR. Eastern European countries were not in control of their own foreign policy. Khrushchev ...