Varšavski ugovor u sistemu Istočnoevropske vojnopolitičke integracije
The Warsaw Treaty in the System of the East-European Foreign Political Integration

Summary/Abstract: In his essay the author considers the Warsaw Treaty as an important moans of gathering European socialist countries. Efforts for the union of East-European states in the frames of a uniform system of connections, and on the basis of the Soviet rules about necessities for permanent joining of powers, had special reflection on military-political plan, where since the first days of existing of countries of peoples’ democracy they have been making efforts to harmonize strictly the courses of colla¬boration with the Soviet interests. With regard to such Soviet intentions, which in particular periods where more or less evident in the Soviet political action towards East-European countries, it is clear that the first organized form of military-political gathering - the Warsaw Treaty - since its foundation has got important tasks ac¬cording to the Soviet endeavours that by institutionalized form they even tighter coordinate collaboration between member states. Lips and downs of the Soviet politics, relatively bigger autonomy in the Eastern Europe, processes of yielding on the East-West line and repeated strengthen of the firmly organized dogmatic-etatistic structure, the Soviet-Chinese conflict - all that has found its place directly in the function of the Warsaw Treaty and in the actions which have been undertaken in its frames. The evolution of the Warsaw Treaty till now makes the consistent part of changes through which European socialist countries have passed, and in the first turn the foreign policy of the Soviet Union as the largest member state, which otherwise has outstanding leading role in all actions which have been moved by that strong mili¬tary mechanism. The changing degree of mutual relations as well as some bigger emphasizing of formal principles of common action has been also further accompani¬ed by claims for the uniformity in fundamental questions where according to the Soviet understanding no differences can exist. Such a trend of development does not signalize any soon essential changes. Transformation in the Eastern Europe could be expected only after some radical changes in the Soviet politics. Until that moment the Warsaw Treaty remains as a very important, and for the Soviet Union very necessary body, indispensable for the coordination of political attitudes on the basis of the Soviet political line, formal opposition to the NATO and gathering the Soviet allies in the confrontation with the P. R. of China.

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