Seeing this as an existential threat, the Soviet Union united the countries under its own sphere of influence in Eastern Europe into a defensive alliance known as the Warsaw Pact. These two ...

The Warsaw Pact meant that the USSR controlled Hungarian foreign policy. Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, made a ‘Secret Speech’ in February 1956 which criticised the previous Soviet ...

Hungary was a country in Eastern Europe and was a member of the Warsaw Pact which had been set up in 1955. The Soviet Union (USSR) saw Eastern Europe as a 'buffer-zone' of land which would protect ...