Before the Hungarian revolution, the nation was part of the A. Warsaw pact and wanted out of it. This was during the Cold War, and refers to the treaty between <span>Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, which was signed in Poland in 1955 and was officially called 'The </span>Treaty<span> of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance'.</span>