The Warsaw Pact dissolves itself
1991 · Event
In Prague — where its tanks crushed the Spring in 1968 — the Warsaw Pact's members sign it out of existence in under an hour. The Cold War's eastern alliance ends not in battle but in paperwork; every member state eventually joins NATO or the EU or both.
On these timelines: Fall of the Soviet Union, Cold War, Master, Eastern Europe & the Balkans, Russia & the USSR
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