Six years after the formation of NATO in 1955, as opposed to the alliance appeared the Warsaw Pact.Creating ATS marked a new round of the Cold War.However, the socialist countries actively cooperate with each other long before that.After the war, in 1945, in the Eastern European countries the communists came to power.This was partly due to the presence in these countries of the Soviet troops, as well as general psychological background.Prior to the establishment of ATS relations between the socialist countries were built on the basis of agreements on cooperation and friendship.In 1949 came the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance.However, the creation of ATS was fully initiated USSR.
members of the new unit are: the Soviet Union, Romania, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Albania and Bulgaria.The contract was signed for twenty years with a simplified extension for another decade.In 1962, a block of political differences, Albania ceased to participate.In 1968 she came out of it completely.
Creating ATS was the military-political act.This is evidenced by even the structure of the governing bodies of the unit: joint command of the Armed Forces and political advisory body, coordinated the common foreign policy.Education ATS played a great political role.The unit was the main mechanism that helped the Soviet Union to monitor the country's socialist camp.Militarily, the treaty also had great significance.Troops participating countries held regular joint exercises, and in the territories of the Eastern European states were Soviet military bases.
In 1968, the country's ATS together troops entered Czechoslovakia to suppress the processes of liberalization and democratization of the country, which could lead in time to the door of her block.In the context of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was unacceptable to lose a key security state, Czechoslovakia.However, the main danger was that other states could follow suit.
Creating ATS provides for the equality of all participants.However, the formal equality of the members of the agreement, which were to collectively take political and military decisions, was only visibility.Relations between the USSR and the other members of the unit differed little from its relationship with their own republics.All important decisions were taken in Moscow.History of ATS are numerous such examples.
When, during the perestroika in the Soviet Union there was a change of policy, the country abandoned the doctrine of control and interference in the internal affairs of its allies in the organization.In 1985, participants of the unit extended its membership in it for another 20 years.However, in 1989, it began an active destruction of the socialist system.In socialist countries, a wave of "velvet revolutions", and in a short time the communist government have been eliminated.It is, in fact, destroyed the system of power ATS.After these events the unit ceased to be a mechanism that helped the Soviet Union to control the Eastern European countries.In 1991, the Treaty finally ceased to exist along with the complete collapse of the socialist system.
