EASTERN EUROPE
Soviet Military Bloc Although the USSR has alreadya military alliance with the Satellite states through an interlocking network cf mutual assistance pacts, persistent reports emanating from eastern Europe indicate the formation of an eastern European military bloc to counter the establishment of the- North Atlantic Pact. Speculation regardingove by the Kremlin has beenby the mysterious visit of Vishlnsky to Czechoslovakia, as well as by the reported presence there of Gromyko. Zorin, the Polish Communists Berman and Zawadzki, and Sovietfrom the Satellites. Other reports place the Hungariac Minister of War and high-ranking Czechoslovak and Polish military officials in Moscow forimilar nature. The formation of such an east European military organization would enable the USSR to exert more direct control ofSatellite military establishments and would improve the morale of tlie Satellite Communist regimes which areincreasingly concerned over growing economic stability, political cooperation, and defensive preparations In western Europe.
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