Warsaw Treaty Organization
English
Proper noun
- (international law) The strategic alliance of Communist countries (the Soviet Union and its European allies the GDR, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and — until the 1960s break-up with Moscow — Albania) established by the Warsaw Pact treaty on May 14, 1955.
- The Warsaw Treaty Organization claimed it needed to balance the 'threat' posed by NATO, thus justifying the Cold War arms race.
Synonyms
- Warsaw Pact (metonymy)
Translations
alliance of Communist countries
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