It’s no coincidence that President Donald Trump caved to the Kremlin’s demands for peace-through-surrender, and insisted that Kyiv do the same, on the same day that Russia launched its deadliest ...

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 ...

European members of Nato are scrambling to find a solution to the problem of the US wanting to be less involved.

The threat of West Germany’s entry into NATO in 1955 caused the USSR to retaliate by forming the Warsaw Pact or ‘Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance.’ New Zealand banned ...

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 ...

Hungary was a country in Eastern Europe and was a member of the Warsaw Pact which had been set up in 1955. The Soviet Union (USSR) saw Eastern Europe as a 'buffer-zone' of land which would protect ...

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 ...

The Warsaw Pact meant that the USSR controlled Hungarian foreign policy. Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, made a ‘Secret Speech’ in February 1956 which criticised the previous Soviet ...