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Cold War: Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.

Historical image related to Cold War: Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact. from September 13, 1968

Cold War

1947–1991 geopolitical rivalry between US and USSR

The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which began in the aftermath of the Second World War and ended with the…
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People's Socialist Republic of Albania

Communist state in Southeast Europe from 1946 to 1991

The People's Socialist Republic of Albania was the communist state that existed in Albania from 10 January 1946 to the 29 April 1991. Originally founded as the People's Republic of Albania from 1946 to 1976, it was governed by the Party of Labor of Albania (PLA), which had a…
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Warsaw Pact

Eastern European military alliance (1955–1991)

The Warsaw Pact (WP), formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance (TFCMA), was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics in Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955,…
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