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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Disbanding of the Warsaw Pact in July 1991 was not followed by the disbanding of NATO.
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Sveta Romanova,
Intelligence Officer
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For 50 years, the Soviets told the Russian people and their Warsaw Pact "partner" countries that NATO was an aggressor force to be feared.
Ties between the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact, Kassof noted, were officially dissolved with the collapse of Communist rule.
The major chemical weapons programs of the Soviet Union and the United States were driven by the NATO-Warsaw Pact standoff in central Europe.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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You should choose a rifle that uses either NATO standard or WARSAW PACT calibers.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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Soviet-Albanian relations dipped to new lows after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, when Albania responded by officially withdrawing from the alliance.
While a member of the Warsaw Pact, Romania did not participate in the Warsaw Pact's military manoeuvres, and the last Soviet troops were withdrawn in 1958.
The inability of Warsaw Pact nations to finance an arms race with the West reduced prospects for battlefield victory over the NATO democracies.
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David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist
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Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia and "anti-zionist" purge in Poland showed that communism was both unreformable and anti-semitic.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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Thus, in the absence of a Western chemical weapons pro-gram, the Warsaw Pact was poised to control the battlefield and ultimately win a war with NATO.
The Warsaw Pact’s 1984 “Shield” exercises in Czechoslovakia included first-ever training in responding to a NATO counterattack.
Soviet/Warsaw Pact battle plans often included the use of nuclear weapons, with a list of targets to include:
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