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Originally Posted by jiri
When exactly did Czechoslovakia launch attack against the USSR? During the WW2 the country did not exist. What is now known as Czech Republic was under Nazi Germany´s control back then, Slovak´s puppet regime truly attacked the Soviet Union along with the Nazis.
The Warsaw Pact was organized and controlled by the Soviets. It is not a secret.
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No, it's not a secret, but you'll find a lot of interesting details to why it happened, if you are willing to dig, not to confirm to "traditional" thinking and cliches.
In March 1954, the USSR, fearing "the restoration of German Militarism" in West Germany, requested admission to NATO.
[10][11][12] By then, laws had already been passed in West Germany ending
denazification [13][14] and the
Gehlen Organization, predecessor of the
West German Federal Intelligence Service, was fully operative and employing hundreds of
ex-Nazis.
[15]
The Soviet request to join NATO arose in the aftermath of the
Berlin Conference of January–February 1954. Soviet foreign minister
Molotov made different proposals to have
Germany reunified[16] and elections for a pan-German government,
[17] under conditions of withdrawal of the
four powers armies and German neutrality,
[18] but all were refused by the other foreign ministers,
Dulles (USA),
Eden (UK) and
Bidault (France).
[19] Proposals for the reunification of Germany were nothing new: earlier in 1952,
talks about a German reunification ended after the United Kingdom, France, and the United States insisted that a unified Germany should not be neutral and should be free to join the
European Defence Community and rearm.[
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Consequently Molotov, fearing that EDC would be directed in the future against the USSR therefore "seeking to prevent the formation of groups of European States directed against other European States",
[20] made a proposal for a General European Treaty on Collective Security in Europe "open to all European States without regard as to their social systems"
[20] which would have included the unified Germany (thus making the
EDC – perceived by the USSR as a threat – unusable). But again, Eden, Dulles and Bidault opposed the proposal.
[21]
One month later, the proposed European Treaty was rejected not only by supporters of the
EDC but also by western opponents of the European Defense Community (like French
Gaullist leader Palewski) who perceived it as "unacceptable in its present form because it excludes the USA from participation in the collective security system in Europe".
[22] The Soviets then decided to make a new proposal to the governments of the USA, UK and France stating to accept the participation of the USA in the proposed General European Agreement.
[22] And considering that another argument deployed against the Soviet proposal was that it was perceived by western powers as "directed against the North Atlantic Pact and its liquidation",
[22][23] the Soviets decided to declare their "readiness to examine jointly with other interested parties the question of the participation of the USSR in the North Atlantic bloc", specifying that "the admittance of the USA into the General European Agreement should not be conditional on the three western powers agreeing to the USSR joining the North Atlantic Pact".
[22]
Again all proposals, including the request to join NATO, were rejected by UK, US, and French governments shortly after.
[12][24] Emblematic was the position of British General
Hastings Ismay, supporter of NATO expansion, who said that NATO "must grow until the whole free world gets under one umbrella."
[25] He opposed the request to join NATO made by the USSR in 1954
[26] saying that "the Soviet request to join NATO is like an unrepentant burglar requesting to join the police force"
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And that's why the Warsaw Pact came about - as a response to all above.
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