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Very important note: Yugoslavia and Albania ''don't'' count. They were part of [[Commie Land]], but not the Warsaw Pact. Yugoslavia was never a member and Albania finally left over the Prague Spring. The latter aligned for some time more with China.
The states of the
* [[East Germany]]
* Poland
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Officially the countries were not supposed to intervene in each other's internal affairs. Interventions in Hungary (1956) and Czechoslovakia (1968) were justified under "requests by the local governments".
With [[Hole in Flag]], the
In fiction, the existence of Warsaw Pact members other than the Soviet Union and East Germany is often ignored. Especially in [[Spy Fiction|Spy Dramas]]. Commie spies will almost invariably be Russian. Their home country will nearly always be depicted like Russia. You won't see the warm, almost-Mediterranean climate of southern Bulgaria, nor the medieval architecture of Prague (unless it's meant to be a crossover with [[Uberwald]]).
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'''In case of World War, break glass'''
For most of the [[Cold War]], the conventional military balance in Europe was in favor of the Warsaw Pact from the 1950s to the late 1980s, a imbalance which was off-set by NATO's nuclear superiority until the Soviets [[Mnogo Nukes|achieved rough parity]] in the late-60s. From the mid-80s on, the introduction of various emerging "information age" technologies for military use swung the balance to the West. The plans for [[World War Three]] were to go on the offensive immediately, in case of attack. The
WP equipment was virtually all Soviet or local copies of Soviet weaponry (notable exception- the Czechoslovak L-39 trainer aircraft series. Remember the beginning of ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies]]''? That one). When these countries later joined [[NATO]], the US had some MiGs and Sukhois to play with. Most of these states are now slowly retiring their Soviet-made aircraft.
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Allow me to add that one of my life's greatest moments was at the viking market in Wolin 1998 where I met a former Polish para who had trained to invade the part of Denmark I was training to defend, he even knew some local village names. We quickly agreed that we were content that it never happened and shared a few beers, then a few more. The rest of the evening was hazy as we discovered that "The Other" was a young chap just like ourselves.
'''The
As [[Commie Land]], all the states turn up at some point.
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