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 ...

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 ...

The Warsaw Pact was established in 1955 with the intention of collective military defense should any member state be attacked, a foundation similar to that of NATO, established in 1949. The Warsaw ...

M.R. Kopec, a medical expert, said that 791,000 persons were killed in Warsaw by Germans under Fischer’s command between Oct., 1939 and Oct., 1944, excluding the hundreds of thousands sent to ...

Donald Tusk, who was hosting the prime minister for discussions on a UK-Polish defence pact in Warsaw, said it was his "dream" that "instead of a Brexit, we will have a Breturn". Standing ...

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 ...