Warsaw Pact: Creation, Structure and Effectiveness

[The Lawspeaker]

Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video on the creation of the Warsaw Pact - the anti-NATO union created under the tutelage of the USSR and its main alliance in the Cold War.

[PaleoEuropean]

I love Pact countries weaponry they had some cool stuff.

[The Lawspeaker]

I love Pact countries weaponry they had some cool stuff.

It was more propaganda than an effective fighting force, though. For 50 years we were afraid of.. nothing. I remember reading somewhere that many of the Soviet nukes were fake and just used to scare the West and the Missile Gap never existed.

[PaleoEuropean]

It was more propaganda than an effective fighting force, though. For 50 years we were afraid of.. nothing. I remember reading somewhere that many of the Soviet nukes were fake and just used to scare the West and the Missile Gap never existed.

no doubt, they would have been steam rolled by the western forces.