When the Warsaw Pact disbanded and the Soviet Union collapsed, NATO had fulfilled its role.
Ronald Reagan hated the Soviet occupation of the Warsaw Pact countries really, hated the oppression and violence.
The CFE treaty was adapted in 1999, eight years after the Warsaw Pact was dissolved.
Although now defunct, its exact capabilities in listening in on Warsaw Pact phones and radios remain a secret.
But having a missile defense interceptors stationed on Polish soil, which used to be part of the Warsaw Pact.
America and its European allies reserved the right to use nuclear weapons to defend against a Warsaw Pact invasion.
The Soviet Union continues to enjoy considerable influence in the Warsaw Pact states.
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Not to be outsung, the Warsaw Pact came up with its own version of Eurovision - the Intervision Song Contest.
Promoting European fears about that prospect was the obvious intention of the Commander of Warsaw Pact forces, General Vladimir N.
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That will still be greater than spending during the Cold War, when there was a Soviet Union, Warsaw Pact, and Maoist China.
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The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and subsequent demise of the Warsaw Pact, therefore, left Nato with no obvious purpose.
Bulgaria and Romania are the perennial laggards of the old Warsaw Pact.
Turcotte said he encountered a similar lack of initiative among officials from former Warsaw Pact officials after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
There are persistent and significant disagreements between NATO and the Warsaw Pact in counting the number of forces deployed by the Soviet bloc.
What is more, territory formerly constituting the front line of the Warsaw Pact has been peacefully incorporated into that of a NATO member state.
In 1968, Albania announced it was withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact.
Promote full data disclosure for all Western financial flows to Warsaw Pact countries and Soviet client states, including historical data covering the period 1978 through 1988.
The approach would be similar to those issued in countries like Germany and France when Poland and other former Warsaw Pact states became EU members in 2004.
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Resist providing any irreversible Western economic and financial benefits except in return for appropriate, irreversible steps on the part of Warsaw Pact countries and Soviet client states.
The Center for Security Policy believes that it is absolutely imperative that the importance be understood of Western economic, financial and technology security policies toward Warsaw Pact countries.
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The only previous OPIC exemption for a Warsaw Pact country was Romania, whose previous dalliance with reform has been supplanted by the most egregious Stalinist repression in the Soviet bloc.
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China has enjoyed a more favored status than the Soviet Union or other Warsaw Pact countries and has, thereby, been given access to vastly more sophisticated and militarily relevant technology.
NATO's doors to former members of the Warsaw Pact, the western allies have seen their relations with Russia plunge to their lowest level since the end of the cold war.
Either the Warsaw Pact still represents a major threat to vital Western security interests hence justifying the B-2 bomber, SDI, and other major defense expenditures or it does not.
In 1994 Nato offered former Warsaw Pact members limited associations in the form of the Partnership for Peace programme, allowing them to participate in information sharing, joint exercises and peacekeeping operations.
In this connection, it is ironic that the Bush Administration claims that money is fungible and therefore the use of any type of capital controls toward Warsaw Pact countries will not work.
"The Bush Administration is to be commended for quickly and explicitly rejecting the Soviet suggestion that Germany might be a member of both the NATO and Warsaw Pact alliances, " said Frank J.
Russians of every political stripe hate the idea that next July their former Warsaw Pact allies, most likely Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, will be invited to join NATO by 1999.
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