What makes it different for Warsaw pact countries is that they were so delighted to escape Moscow’s grip and burst free toward the West during the 1990s. They had finally busted out.

The Warsaw Pact Monday published detailed data on the size of its troops and arms levels in Europe for the first time and said ”rough parity” exists between the Eastern bloc forces and those ...

President Mikhail Gorbachev and his Warsaw Pact allies agreed Saturday that NATO had met them halfway with its proposals for reducing conventional arms in Europe, and they said the first agreements… ...

A strange thing happened to Romania on its way to another humdrum post-communist election: A sudden outbreak of the right-wing populist virus, driven by a suspicious TikTok mega-mobilization. In ...

After 36 years, the Warsaw Pact — a military alliance between the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites — was effectively dissolved on this day in 1991 as Soviet military commanders ...

Romania’s abortion ban between 1966 and 1989 caused maternal mortality ... This rationale kept Romania from joining the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and made him a hero — at ...

I just returned from a trip to the car graveyards and back roads along the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria and Romania, undertaken in my quest to document discarded and about-to-be-discarded Warsaw ...

A strange thing happened to Romania on its way to another humdrum post-communist election: A sudden outbreak of the right-wing populist virus, driven by a suspicious TikTok mega-mobilization.