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  2. Warsaw Pact - Wikipedia

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    The Warsaw Pact's largest military engagement was the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, its own member state, in August 1968 (with the participation of all pact nations except Albania and Romania), [12] which, in part, resulted in Albania withdrawing from the pact less than one month later.

  3. Ryszard Siwiec - Wikipedia

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    Ryszard Siwiec (Polish pronunciation: [ˈrɨʂart ˈɕivjɛt͡s]; 7 March 1909 – 12 September 1968) was a Polish accountant and former Home Army resistance member who was the first person to die by self-immolation in protest against the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.

  4. Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia - Wikipedia

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    However the Warsaw Pact had amassed at the Czech border, and invaded overnight (August 20–21). That afternoon, on August 21, the council met to hear the Czechoslovak Ambassador Jan Mužík denounce the invasion. Soviet Ambassador Jacob Malik insisted the Warsaw Pact actions were those of "fraternal assistance" against "antisocial forces". [95]

  5. Chief of Combined Staff of the Unified Armed Forces of the ...

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    The Chief of Combined Staff of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization (Russian: Начальник Объединенного штаба Объединенных вооруженных сил стран-участниц Варшавского договора) was a post in command of Combined Staff of the military forces of the Warsaw Pact.

  6. History of Czechoslovakia (1948–1989) - Wikipedia

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    The Warsaw Pact nations drafted a letter to the KSČ leadership referring to the manifesto as an "organizational and political platform of counterrevolution." Pact members demanded the reimposition of censorship, the banning of new political parties and clubs, and the repression of "rightist" forces within the party.

  7. De-satellization of the Socialist Republic of Romania - Wikipedia

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    Romania opposed the use of its territory by foreign forces, [28] and with Bulgaria was one of the two Warsaw Pact members not to allow the stationing of foreign troops on its soil, Soviet or otherwise. [29] [30] Although Romania did participate in joint Warsaw Pact air and naval exercises, it did not allow such exercises on its own territory. [31]

  8. Category:Warsaw Pact - Wikipedia

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    Military operations involving the Warsaw Pact (1 C, 4 P) P. Warsaw Treaty Organization people (8 P) Persecution of Christians in the Eastern Bloc (3 C, 22 P)

  9. Ryszard Kukliński - Wikipedia

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    Ryszard Kukliński with his wife. Kukliński was born in Warsaw to a working-class family with strong Catholic and socialist traditions. During World War II, his father became a member of the Polish resistance movement; he was captured by the Gestapo, and subsequently died in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.