(The Warsaw Pact is the name commonly given to the treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, which was signed in Poland in 1955 and was officially called ‘The Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance’.)
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Since the end of the cold war it has seen its authority belittled by the dismantling of its empire as one after another former colony in the Warsaw Pact - notably Hungary and Poland - has embraced the West, leaving the Russians angry and resentful.
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