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1. Warsaw Pact

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   Political Function and Sovereignty
   While the Treaty text stipulated mutual consultation among sovereign members, the political reality was one of strict Soviet oversight. The Pact mechanism served primarily as the military arm of the Brezhnev Doctrine, which asserted the right of the USSR to intervene in the affairs of any socialist state where socialism was deemed threatened.
   The most overt demonstration of this political function occurred during the Prague Spring of 1968. The invasion of Czechoslovakia by Pact forces (excluding Romania and Albania) was…