The Warsaw Pact is a counterweight to NATO

The Warsaw Treaty Organization was established six years after the emergence of NATO, in the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty-five. It is worth saying that close cooperation between the socialist countries existed long before this date. At the same time, relations between states were based on agreements on cooperation and friendship.

In connection with the emergence of friction in the relations of the USSR and the allied states, since March 1991, in some countries of Eastern Europe belonging to the socialist camp, mass discontent of citizens began to arise. They found their expression in numerous demonstrations and strikes. The greatest protest was expressed by the people of Hungary and Czechoslovakia. The situation in the GDR, where the standard of living of the population deteriorated, led the country to the brink of mass strikes. To suppress discontent, the government of the USSR introduced tanks into the country.

The organization of the Warsaw Pact was the result of negotiations between Soviet leaders and the leaders of the socialist countries. It included almost all countries located in Eastern Europe, except Yugoslavia. The formation of the organization of the Warsaw Treaty served as a prerequisite for the creation of a joint command of the Armed Forces, as well as for the Political Consultative Committee coordinating the foreign policy of the Union states. All key posts in these structures were occupied by a representative of the army of the USSR.

The organization of the Warsaw Treaty on Cooperation, Friendship, and Mutual Assistance was established with the aim of ensuring the security of its member countries. The need for this agreement was caused by NATO's expanding activities.

The concluded treaty contained provisions that provided for mutual assistance to any participating country in the event of an attack on it, as well as mutual consultations in the event of crisis situations, with the creation of a unified command over the armed forces.

The Warsaw Pact was created in opposition to the NATO bloc. However, already in 1966 the Hungarian government declared its neutrality and desire to withdraw from the member countries of the agreement. The answer to this was the introduction of Soviet tanks into Budapest . People's unrest occurred in Poland. They were stopped by peaceful means.

The split in the socialist camp began in the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight. It was during this period that the Romanian government achieved the withdrawal of Soviet troops from its territory and refused to support its leaders. A year later, the Berlin crisis arose . Even greater tension was caused by the construction of a wall around West Berlin with the installation of checkpoints at the border.

The Warsaw Treaty countries in the mid-sixties of the last century literally swept over demonstrations against the use of military force. The collapse of Soviet ideology in the eyes of the world community occurred in 1916 with the introduction of tanks to Prague.

The organization of the Warsaw Pact ceased to exist in the year nineteen ninety-one, at the same time as the collapse of the socialist system. The agreement lasted more than thirty years, during the entire period of its operation it carried a real threat to the free world.