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slvemike4u -> RE: Russian responsoe to potential US missle sites in Poland (8/18/2008 1:44:57 PM)
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ORIGINAL: RealityLicks
I'm referring of course to the Warsaw Pact. The perfect opportunity for more antiquated characterisation of Russians as moustachio-twirling bad hats.
Before the outpouring of predictable propaganda begins, please remember that none of it's new and try and keep it short. I'll check back later to see if anything worth a response emerges.
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Forget predictable properganda let us instead look at your own link,and think about the true meaning of allies....
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.
Now in a previous post i referred to the "coalitition of the unwilling".Well America might and has used leverage to keep allies aligned,please explain how that compares with Soviet Tank divisions rolling thru your "allies" major cities
Your definitionof allies seems a little "loose" no?
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