NATO was never a good idea gone wrong. It was founded to crush communist, socialist, and anti-colonial movements in Europe ...

This grip, however, was not completely solid. Albania left the Warsaw Pact due to differences in ideology in the 1960s. Unlike other Warsaw Pact countries, the Albanian communist leadership had ...

Upon assuming the Czechoslovak leadership in January by becoming first secretary of the Communist Party of ... several fellow Warsaw Pact nations made their objections known in a July communiqué ...

Eastern European countries were not in control of their own ... They make it clear that they want to get rid of the Communist Party and leave the Warsaw Pact. 1 Nov 1956 Nagy accepts the rebels ...