Editing Warsaw Pact (section)

===Members===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1987-0529-029, Berlin, Tagung Warschauer Pakt, Gruppenfoto.jpg|thumb|right|Meeting of the seven representatives of the Warsaw Pact countries in [[East Berlin]] in May 1987. From left to right: [[Gustáv Husák]] (Czechoslovakia), [[Todor Zhivkov]] (Bulgaria), [[Erich Honecker]] (East Germany), [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] (Soviet Union), [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]] (Romania), [[Wojciech Jaruzelski]] (Poland), and [[János Kádár]] (Hungary)]]

The founding signatories of the Pact consisted of the following communist governments:
* {{flagicon|Albania|1946}} [[People's Socialist Republic of Albania]] (withheld support in 1961 because of the [[Albanian–Soviet split]], but formally withdrew on 13 September 1968)
* {{flagicon|People's Republic of Bulgaria}} [[People's Republic of Bulgaria]]<ref name="history.com" />
* {{flagicon|Czechoslovakia}} [[Czechoslovak Socialist Republic]]<ref name="history.com" />
* {{flag|East Germany}} (German Democratic Republic; officially withdrew on 24 September 1990 in preparation for [[German reunification]], with Soviet consent and a "remarkable yet hardly noticed" ceremony, ceasing to exist altogether at midnight on 3 October)<ref>{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=LoqwCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA59| publisher=[[Routledge]]|title=Longman Companion to Germany Since 1945|page= 59| isbn = 978-1317884248| last1 = Webb| first1 = Adrian |author1-link=Adrian Webb |date = 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=JKrpCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA297|publisher=[[Berghahn Books]]|title=Mitterrand, the End of the Cold War, and German Unification|page=297| isbn = 978-1845457877| last1 = Bozo| first1 = Édéric| year = 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=gXflC2Ipo_QC&pg=PA537| publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|title=Germany: 1933–1990 |page=537| isbn = 978-0-19-926598-5| last1 = Winkler |first1 = Heinrich August |author1-link=Heinrich August Winkler |year = 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=IGjfBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA261|publisher=[[Routledge]]| title=Germany in the Twentieth Century|page= 261| isbn = 978-1317542285| last1 = Childs| first1 = David |author1-link=David Childs (academic) |date = 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4YIh-_UjxUQC&pg=PR54| publisher= [[University of Washington Press]]|title=German Unification and Its Discontents |page=54 | isbn = 978-0295974910| last1 = Gray| first1 = Richard T.| last2 = Wilke| first2 = Sabine| year = 1996}}</ref>
* {{flagicon|HPR}} [[Hungarian People's Republic]] (temporarily withdrew from 1–4 November 1956 during the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956|Hungarian Revolution]])<ref name="history.com" />
* {{flagicon|PPR|variant=1980}} [[Polish People's Republic]]<ref name="history.com" />
* {{flagicon|RSR}} [[Socialist Republic of Romania]] (the only independent permanent non-Soviet member of the Warsaw Pact, having [[De-satellization of Communist Romania|freed itself from its Soviet satellite status]] by the early 1960s)<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
* {{flag|Soviet Union}}<ref name="history.com" />