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Warsaw Pact

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Warsaw Pact
A military pact between the Soviet Union and a number of Eastern European countries that existed between 1955 and 1991. Members of the Warsaw Pact pledged mutual defense. It was established in response to the formation of NATO and was a key alliance during the Cold War.


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The announcement in 2005 of the Nord Stream gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea between Russia and Germany, a JV of Gazprom and EU firms bypassing countries like Poland and Lithuania, stirred fears in Central Europe by raising the possibility of Russia's pressing its former Warsaw Pact states with gas cut-offs while not disturbing richer clients to the West.
August 21, 1968: Warsaw Pact troops began an invasion of Czechoslavakia.
They were former members of the Warsaw pact, which was part of the old Russian empire.
 
 
 
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