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The Warsaw Pact didn’t appear out of nowhere — and it wasn’t really about external defense.

By 1955, NATO had existed for six years, and the Soviet Union already exercised tight military control over Eastern Europe. But when West Germany was rearmed and admitted into NATO, Moscow saw it as an existential threat. Just eight days later, the Soviet Union responded by forming its own alliance: the Warsaw Pact.

Officially called the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance, the Pact was presented as a defensive counterweight to NATO. In reality, it served a very different purpose. Unlike NATO, which functioned as a voluntary alliance of sovereign states, the Warsaw Pact formalized Soviet dominance over its satellite countries, providing legal cover for permanent troop deployments and centralized command from Moscow.

Its true role became clear not in wars against the West, but in actions against its own members — from crushing the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 to ending the Prague Spring in 1968. The Warsaw Pact wasn’t primarily a shield against NATO. It was a mechanism of control.

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