![]() ![]() NATO was also afterall flagged as defensive. It was a collective defense treaty, as the term “defense” was more likely to gain suffrages within eastern population. ![]() Therefore, more as a counterweight to NATO than real concession of autonomy (in the sense Western European nations were), Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania as well as Yugoslavia were all summoned to join the Moskow-driven military alliance. However after the death of Stalin in 1953, the new USSR’s premier, Nikita Kruchtchev started to ease this domination with these countries, allowing some autonomy, including in the creation of their armies -provided they still ordered their assets to Moskow and stayed in its the strict military supervision as well. So why waiting until 1955 ? Indeed Stalin never really wanted an “alliance” considering eastern countries now “piloted” from Moskow being only subjected to automatic de facto military contribution to USSR, which still stationed considerable forces in these countries at that time. ![]() The irony was that USSR was proposed to join the alliance at its creation, but Stalin flatly refused, and so for satellite countries now under his sphere of influence. The anthitesis of NATO, created in 1949 by the USA, Canada and some Western European Powers of the time, was Stalin’s response to what he considered a threat to soviet future expansion. Presidential palace of Warsaw, where was signed the pact East Germany, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary ![]()
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