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Warsaw Pact

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The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance of communist states in Eastern Europe led by the Soviet Union, established in 1955 as a counterbalance to NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). It symbolized the geopolitical and military rivalry between the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc during the Cold War.

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