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The ___MASK37___ was a state of political and military tension after ___MASK55___ II between powers in the Eastern Bloc ( the Soviet Union and its satellite states ) and powers in the Western Bloc ( the United States , its NATO allies and others ). Historians do not fully agree on the dates , but a common timeframe is the period ( the second half of the 20th century ) between 1947 , the year the Truman Doctrine ( a U . S . policy pledging to aid nations threatened by Soviet expansionism ) was announced , and 1991 , the year the Soviet Union collapsed . The Soviet Navy ( literally " Military Maritime Fleet of the USSR ") was the naval arm of the Soviet Armed Forces . Often referred to as the Red Fleet , the Soviet Navy was a large part of the Soviet Union ' s strategic plan in the event of a conflict with the United States , the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), or another conflict related to the Warsaw Pact . The influence of the Soviet Navy played a large role in the ___MASK37___ , as the majority of conflicts centered on naval forces . The Soviet Armed Forces , also called the Armed Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Armed Forces of the Soviet Union ( Russian :       " Vooruzhonnyye Sily Soyuza Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik ",     ) refers to the armed forces of the Russian SFSR ( 1917  1922 ), and Soviet Union ( 1922  1991 ) from their beginnings in the aftermath of the ___MASK63___ to its dissolution in December 1991 . Pyotr Alexandrovich Smirnov ( Russian :    ) ( 1897 -- 1939 ) was a Soviet Commissar , Deputy Minister of Defence and Commander of the Soviet Navy . The Warsaw Pact , formally the Treaty of Friendship , Co - operation , and Mutual Assistance and sometimes , informally , WarPac . was a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the ___MASK37___ . The Warsaw Pact was the military complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( CoMEcon ), the regional economic organization for the communist states of Central and Eastern Europe . The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955 per the London and Paris Conferences of 1954 , but it is also considered to have been motivated by Soviet desires to maintain control over military forces in Central and Eastern Europe .