Visegrad Pact (Chisel of Time)

The Visegrad Pact is an economic and military alliance of nations along the European Plain that risk invasion by Socialist Siberia. They are primarily successor states of either Warsaw Pact nations or Soviet Republics.

History
The Visegrad Pact traces its inspiration all the way back to the period in between the World Wars, by Polish leader Jozef Pilsudski, for a federation, under Poland's aegis, of Central and Eastern European countries. Invited to join the proposed federation were the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, along with Finland, Belarus, Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia. The alliance was meant to serve as a deterent against invasion by either Germany or Russia.

In the immediate post-Doomsday world, as Poles and others went about reclaiming their lost lives, they did not know about the looming threat posed by an irredentist Siberian successor state to the USSR. However, in 1995, an emmisary from the Russian wastelands, claiming to have defected from the KGB, carried with him news of the Siberians and their Westward expansion. News reached East Poland and Belarus shortly, and galvanized efforts to initiate a military alliance between the two countries.

Slowly but surely, new nations would be contacted and invited to join the alliance. Membership would be open to any nation willing to help fight off a Siberian incursion. Geographically, the alliance would span from the Caucasus states to the shore of the Baltic Sea.

The membership of the Russian Confederacy became vitally important and strengthened the alliance tremendously. On June 3, 2006, the RC joined, adding a state with a nuclear deterent to the bloc.

Talks are currently underway for the addition of Prussia, and coordination with the Black Sea Accords and Nordic Union in the event of a Siberian assault.

Members
East Poland

Belarus

Ukraine Republican Coalition (pending due to disputes with RC over territory)

Russian Confederacy

Kuban

Don

Kalmykia

Lithuania